By Margaret on January 30, 2012
In our continuing effort to provide information on local schools, here’s news of another open house: Tuesday January 31st, 9:00 am to 10:30 am 171 West 239th Street 718 543-2250 “Catholic Education and Academic Excellence in a Caring, Disciplined Environment” Visitation is a small school with a dedicated and experienced faculty. They offer: christian values [...]
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By Margaret on January 25, 2012
This new charter middle school is opening at the intersection of W 231st Street and Corlear Avenue. The attached Riverdale Press article gives info on open houses, and how to apply. As this is the season when parents are looking for schools for their children, we will post information on schools. [...]
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By Margaret on January 10, 2012
On the following agenda for the Croton Filtration Monitoring Committee, you will see several interesting issues that affect us. You may have read about the fakery by which the $200 million which the State Legislature required the DEP to give for parks in the Bronx basically was used to replace Parks funding, leading to no [...]
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By Margaret on January 2, 2012
Below is the press release from the Department of Sanitation regarding when DOS and the Parks Department will each be giving you an opportunity to recycle your tree. The NYC Department of Sanitation will be conducting special collections for mulching and recycling of Christmas trees. Collections will take place beginning on Monday, January 3 [...]
Posted in Front Page News, Notices/Announcements | Tagged Bronx, mulch, parks, recycling
By Margaret on November 29, 2011
An invitation to another Christmas concert . . . A Festival of Lessons & Carols Our campus candlelight Christmas celebration is Sunday, 4 December at 4:30pm in the Chapel of De La Salle & His Brothers Manhattan College, 4513 Manhattan College Parkway followed by the Lighting of the Campus Christmas Tree on the Quad with [...]
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By Margaret on November 29, 2011
This will be a lovely, short, concert, to raise money for the Church’s organ, which needs to be replaced. “Christmas Illuminations” A Benefit Concert for the Organ Fund of the Visitation Church The Artists: Everett Suttle, Tenor Becilia Wong, Organ Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. Church of the Visitation 160 Van Cortlandt Park [...]
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By Margaret on November 14, 2011
By Kristin Hart In 2005, Jackson Development—under the name Herzl Partners LLC—built 5 attached 3-family buildings at 2726-2734 Kingsbridge Terrace. Subsequently, all five of these buildings were foreclosed (see below for details) and they now sit almost entirely vacant. 2726 Kingsbridge Terrace, which sold for $678,000 in 2006, is currently valued at $383,000. 2726-2734 Kingsbridge [...]
Posted in Construction, Front Page News | Tagged affordable housing, Bloomberg's disastrous housing policy, Bronx, Bronx foreclosures, foreclosure, HUD, Jackson Development, Kingsbridge Heights
By Margaret on October 14, 2011
Local attorney Dan Padernacht, representing FIPNA and several members of the community, has filed an Article 78 motion to appeal the BSA decision allowing the construction of a six-story building at 3329-33 Giles Place. The case has its first day in court (at which dates will be set for future briefs and arguments) on Monday, October 24th, [...]
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By Margaret on October 4, 2011
Hello neighbors, I have just received the excellent news that FIPNA won the $2500 matching grant from the National Trust for Historic Places. We are planning to use this money to hire a historic consultant who will do a complete historic survey of our community– a narrative of the area’s history and an inventory of [...]
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