NY City News Service » Bronx http://nycitynews.org A Product of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:59:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en STORM OF TROUBLE FOR TENANTS http://nycitynews.org/2007/04/25/bronx-housing-horrors/ http://nycitynews.org/2007/04/25/bronx-housing-horrors/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:45:43 +0000 drew.geraets http://nycitynews.org/2007/04/25/bronx-housing-horrors/ BRONX – Many New Yorkers were busy plugging leaks during April’s record-breaking rain storm, but for Lydia Vega and her family, the downpour only made a bad situation worse. ]]>

BRONX – Many New Yorkers were busy plugging leaks during April’s record-breaking rain storm, but for Lydia Vega and her family, the downpour only made a bad situation worse. (more…)

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SUSAN SAVES: Susan’s Place, a transitional residence for homeless women, is set to open in July on 177th Street and Jerome Avenue.

BY HEATHER APPEL
NYCity News Service | Published in the Mount Hope Monitor
BRONX – If you’re a single woman looking for emergency housing in the Bronx, you have limited options for getting off the street. There are only three intake shelters for single women in the city, and only one of those, the Franklin Armory, is in the Bronx. If all three are full, your next best option is a drop-in center, where there are no beds, so people sleep in chairs – often for up to two weeks at a time.

Soon, 180 women will have access to housing, job training and counseling at Susan’s Place, a new transitional residence scheduled to open in July on 177th Street and Jerome Avenue.
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]]> http://nycitynews.org/2007/04/23/help-for-the-homeless/feed/ SMALL SCHOOL, BIG RESULTS http://nycitynews.org/2007/04/23/small-school-big-results/ http://nycitynews.org/2007/04/23/small-school-big-results/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:18:07 +0000 Eric http://nycitynews.org/2007/04/23/small-school-big-results/ In the South Bronx, where miracles are short in supply, somebody up there must really like St. Pius V High School. It also has a few Earth-bound angels on the case. ]]>

In the South Bronx, where miracles are short in supply, somebody up there must really like St. Pius V High School. It also has a few Earth-bound angels on the case. (more…)

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INSIDE BASEBALL: A dispute between the city and merchants could impact plans to overhaul the area around Yankee Stadium.
BY DANIEL MASSEY
NYCity News Service | Published in the New York Daily News
BRONX — The city is withholding $90,000 from a Business Improvement District (BID) in the heart of the surging South Bronx, arguing the group did not follow proper procedure in choosing its executive director.
Local merchants counter that the city is trying to control the BID, located in the shadows of three major development projects: the new $1 billion Yankee Stadium, the planned $500 million Gateway Center retail complex and the new $400 million Bronx criminal courthouse. (more…)

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SOUNDSLIDES: Imam Baba Jangana serves West African immigrants in the Bronx.
BY DANIEL MASSEY
NYCity News Service | Published in the New York Daily News
The young girls leaped into the imam’s lap as if he were, well, Santa Claus. “Look how long your beard is,� said Mariama Sillah, 6, one of the girls playfully tugging at the black hair dangling from Imam Baba Jangana’s chin, her speech nearly drowned out by giggles. “You should cut it. When it gets on the floor, what are you going to do?� “I’m going to tell them to get off my beard,� Jangana said, beaming, without missing a beat.
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