LOCAL CLASSIFIEDS PAGE 14 November 27, 2016 Your Neighborhood — Your News® MP BID effort scores majority GOLF COURSE PARS FUTURE Trump’s plan is popular, but city says ‘no’ of property, BY ARTHUR CUSANO ment is their landlord, so that’s Two public hearings earlier slowing things down,” Prince said. biz owners this month offered a slew of new in- Prince said he expected the formation on competing plans for board to be able to vote on the pro- BY PATRICK ROCCHIO Ferry Point Park. posal at its next committee meet- The creation of a Morris Park A proposal by Trump Links ing in January. Business Improvement District at Ferry Point to expand the golf But would that vote carry any took a major step forward. course in exchange for renovating weight? The community board’s The BIDs steering committee other land in the park and creat- role is simply an advisory one, said announced on Wednesday, Novem- ing a nearby nature preserve was Parks media relations director ber 16 that after four years of out- presented in addition to an NYC Crystal Howard. reach and planning, they reached Parks Department proposal to use The mayor’s offi ce rejected the the threshold of 51% approval from the same waterfront land Trump Trump Links proposal last month, the owners of commercial proper- Links wants to develop to create citing desire to keep the waterfront ties and merchants who will com- passive park space while continu- land public. prise the district if it is ultimately ing its rehab of the western half of “The city is moving forward to approved. the Bronx park. implement its plan for the new wa- According to the committee, Community Board 10 chairman terfront park,” she added. they now have majority support Martin Prince said the board was One of the main reasons given from all 155 commercial properties waiting to get its hands on the offi - by Trump Links for expanding the and 297 businesses in the would-be cial Trump Organization proposal. 17th and 18th holes is to make the BID’s service area: Morris Park Av- The proposal was initially submit- course attractive for a potential enue between Williamsbridge and ted to the Parks Department, he PGA major tournament, such as Unionport roads. said. the U.S. Open. John Bonizio, the chairman “They said they submitted it to An event of that nature could of the Westhchester Square Busi- [Parks] because the Parks Depart- Continued on Page 4 ness Improvement District, said he helped reformulate the Morris Park BID steering committee earlier in 2016 to get the project moving. Diaz tells NFL star who lost While not all the business and property owners responded, among those who did there was a 98% and ring: Bronx not ‘sinful’ 86% rate of approval respectively, said Bonizio. BY STEVEN GOODSTEIN side the club depicts an indi- “What that tells you is that the The borough president re- vidual extending his arm to the merchants recognize the value in cently wrote a letter in response fl oor to pick up the item near having an advocate and a unifi ed to an incident involving two Beckham at the time of the in- voice to deal with city agencies and NFL stars. cident. He apparently offered elected offi cials, working together On Tuesday, November 22, a cash reward to anybody who as one,” he said, adding that he sees Borough President Ruben Diaz, found the ring and returned it a BID as an essential component to Jr. wrote a letter to New York Gi- to him, to no avail. formulating a business plan for a ants wide receiver Odell Beck- In response to the incident, commercial district. ham, Jr. and Denver Broncos Diaz Jr. invited both players to The businessman said it was A Mom’s Anquished Plea linebacker Von Miller, after the explore sites in the Bronx other signifi cant that the Morris Park Mothers Against Heroin Abuse attended a ‘Free Naxloxone Training - Learn two NFL stars visited Sin City than Sin City Cabaret, which Community Association provided to Save a Life’ workshop on Tuesday, November 15 hosted by Senator Jeff Cabaret, a strip club located at has a checkered history. support for the BID steering com- Klein at the Villa Barone Manor. The emotional meeting was meant to ad- 2520 Park Avenue in Mott Ha- One can only wonder if this mittee because Morris Park has dress and remedy the heroin epidemic which has greatly impacted the ven, on Thursday, November 17. situation would have taken been without a business associa- Beckham was dancing in the place if they had visited another Bronx since this summer. The event also highlighted the tragedy of young tion for some time. strip club when his diamond Bronx destination instead. The MPCA helped with logisti- adults from the Bronx who have died or are suffering from heroin addic- pinky ring, estimated to cost “I think it is wonderful that cal support and meeting space, he tion. Angela Trotta, whose son Anthony Trotta, Jr. died of a heroin over- $25,000, fl ew off his fi nger. Mr. Beckham, who has been said. dose, wanted to know why the drug dealers aren’t arrested since everyone According to published re- a great representative for the knows who they are. Photo by Silvio Pacifi co Continued on Page 4 ports, a surveillance video in- Continued on Page 15 A CNG Publication • Vol. 675 No. No. 48 5 • Vol. 67 No. 5 UPDATEDUPDATEDUPDATED EVERYEVERY EVERY DAYDAY DAY ATAT AT BXTIMES.COMBXTIMES.COM BXTIMES.COM Offi cials cut ribbon on affordable W. Farms housing BY ROBERT CHRISTIE Samantha Howard, a resident of Crotona Developers, elected offi cials and local resi- Park East for 30 years, is now living in a two- dentss gathered at Boone Avenue to commem- bedroom apartment with her 14-year-old orate the completion of new affordable hous- son. ing in the south Bronx. Howard, an employee of the NYC Depart- The two new buildings -- 1490 and 1500 ment of Education in the Bronx, said she ap- Boone Avenue - are nine stories and 15 sto- plied through Housing Connect and eventu- ries respectively. In addition, they hold a com- ally got the call in June. bined 237 units. “I couldn’t explain how I felt,” said said. Fourteen-ninety and 1500 Boone Avenue - “My son just started at [Cardinal] Hayes which have a combined $81.9 million price tag [High School] this year. It was a great change - are a part of Compass Residences which in- - a new school, a new apartment, I’m so clude 4,392 square feet of retail space, 71 park- happy.” ing spaces, a shared courtyard and a public The two buildings are a part of a larger plaza. multi phase plan to redevelop sections of the The partners in the buildings’ completion Crotona Park East and West Farms neighbor- BRONX WEEKLY November 27, 2016 2 2016 NovemberBRONX WEEKLY 27, include NYS Home and Community Renewal, hoods. NYC Department of Housing Preservation The Boone Avenue duo are buildings 1A and Development, NYC Housing Development and 1B of a six-phase, 10-building plan to re- Corporation, Monadnock Development, Sig- develop the area. nature Urban Properties, and GTIS partners. According to Tom Ciano, vice president “Creating a truly mixed-income neighbor- and director of Real Estate Operations at hood with retail space, parking, a courtyard Monadnock Development, there are two and direct access to Starlight Park, as well as Compass Residences on Boone Avenue in West Farms Photo Courtesy of Zimmerman/Edelson Inc other buildings under construction, another setting aside units to expand opportunities building on which Monadnock is hoping to for formerly homeless individuals, is very im- Miller, a principal of Signature Urban Prop- like we should just be lucky to be receiving close on soon and two other buildings that portant not just for the Bronx but the entire erties and a former NYC councilman, “but whatever they’re going to give us,” Diaz said. are in the early stages of design. New York City,” said Borough President Ru- we’re ultimately going to be able to make this “That is no longer the case.” Currently, as part of the redevelopment, ben Diaz Jr. “Today’s ribbon cutting unlocks neighborhood an even better neighborhood “Where not just going to accept whatever there is a fl orist shop on West Farms Avenue. the fi rst 237 of an over 1,300 unit development for the thousands of other families that live in [they give us],” he said. In addition there will be a deli at the corner of that will create a truly mixed-income commu- the area as well.” Diaz spoke specifi cally about stairs lead- Boone Avenue and Jennings Street. nity and bring transformative change to Cro- Diaz said he appreciated how the develop- ing up from Boone Avenue to West Farms, a Ciano also said the company is entertain- tona Park East and West Farms.” ers came “the right way” to work with Bronx prospective school and even the color of the ing an offer for a dollar store in the complex “For me what’s exciting is not just that offi cials. buildings’ exterior which he said the borough and also exploring leasing to a daycare in an- www.BXTimes.com 237 families are coming here,” said Gifford “Sometimes you get developers who feel asked for and the developers complied. other one of it’s buildings. 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