Sources told Welcome2TheBronx that Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr and his staff made his way to Bruckner Bar and Grill today for a photo opportunity as part of damage control for his poor choice of words when describing Port Morris and Mott Haven.
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Earlier this morning, Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito retweeted our tweet about Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr’s disparaging remarks about Port Morris and Mott Haven in which he described the areas as, “…it’s dark, it’s dormant, it’s just a very morbid place,” during his interview with Gary Axlebank on BronxTalk.
In turn, Madame Speaker Mark-Viverito tweeted: “Proud to represent such a great, diverse part of our city #MottHaven…” to Welcome2TheBronx, Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. El Barrio Tours.
TELL BRONX BOROUGH PRESIDENT RUBEN DIAZ, JR HE IS DISRESPECTFUL AND OUT OF TOUCH!
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“Right now, that area is dark, it’s dormant, it’s just a very morbid place,” said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr of the thriving Port Morris/Mott Haven area where FreshDirect wants to set-up shop during an interview on BronxTalk last night. He went on to say that FreshDirect would liven up an otherwise empty area.
Are we talking about the same area? The same area that was declared by NYC & Company — New York City’s official marketing and tourism agency — as one of the ‘Neighborhood x Neighborhood’ as a destination for tourists to explore outside of Manhattan?
Local residents and business owners are not only disappointed but also upset with Diaz Jr’s comments.
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Folks over at The Bronx River Alliance have announced that the for the first time EVER water was released into NYC’s first fish ladder which of course is in The Bronx River! Starting next year in 2015 for the first time in hundreds of years, alewife herring will be able to migrate and return to their freshwater spawning grounds!
This past Saturday July 12th, 26 teams comprised of 4 individuals each gathered on the steps of Bronx Borough Hall for the beginning of a race to test people’s knowledge of all things Bronx from its history to pop culture. Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr, his staff, John DeSio, Olga Luz Tirado, Executive Director of…
For two and a half years, together we prevented (then) Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Cuomo from giving FreshDirect a single dollar of a (then) promised $127 million subsidy to move its trucking operation to a South Bronx waterfront flood zone, bringing 1,000 daily diesel truck trips through an overburdened community already plagued with asthma rates 8 times the national average. In 2013, we voted a progressive administration into office to change the tale of two cities and reverse course on decades of double standards and hazardous dumping on the South Bronx. We have patiently waited more than six months for our newly elected leaders to deliver on their campaign promises, but our community’s health can no longer afford to be a back burner issue. So today, we are asking all of you and everyone you know to call, email, tweet and facebook the Mayor and tell him to stop the FreshDirect deal. Ask him to back his campaign for change with action!
Tomorrow, Saturday July 12th at 8PM, the Bronx Documentary Center will be screening ‘Freedom Summer’ where “Over 10 memorable weeks in 1964 known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers from around the country joined organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in what was one of the nation’s most viciously racist, segregated states.”
“The summer flies by, but time seemingly stands still at one Bronx park.The two clock towers at Crotona Park’s pool — which was the recipient of a highly touted $1.6 million kiddie wet zone, unveiled to great fanfare on June 27 — do not work.“They need to renovate them,” said Evelyn Rivera, who brought her two tots for a swim on Thursday. “It’s very, very annoying. It should have been part of the [last] project.”
Land ho! Wafels & Dinges, the popular food truck turned brick and mortar shop, has arrived upon the shores of the mainland and docked along 149th Street in front of Lincoln Hospital.
In 2007, a Wafels & Dinges truck began roaming the streets of Manhattan, along with Williamsburg and the usual suspects in Brooklyn, and Astoria in Queens.
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