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Bronx BP Ruben Diaz Jr Insults Mott Haven/Port Morris; Says There’s Nothing There, It’s Morbid

“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.

ACTION ALERT: Tell Mayor de Blasio To Stop The FreshDirect Deal!

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!

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Time stands still at Bronx park pool – NY Daily News

“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.”

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Belgium Invades The Bronx: Popular East Village Based Food Truck Wafels & Dinges Sets Up Shop In Melrose

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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Van Cortlandt Park: The Bronx’s Answer To Central Park

The Bronx is GREEN. We already know that The Bronx is the greenest of the 5 boroughs with roughly 25% of our land as parks and green spaces and home to 3 of the 10 largest city parks (no, Central Park, you are not the largest).

Van Cortlandt Park, tucked away in the Northwestern corner of The Bronx, is New York City’s 3rd largest park. From nature trails, a swimming pool, a lake, America’s first municipal golf course, horse stables and bridle paths, and a 250+ year old mansion, the park packs a lot in 1,146 acres.

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Calling Bronx Photographers!

This September, the Bronx Documentary Center will exhibit a group show featuring Bronx-based documentary photographers and photojournalists. We are asking photographers to submit work that addresses the issues and forces that shape the Bronx; this exhibition will display the depth, range and passion of socially engaged documentarians covering our borough.

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Roaming the Bronx’s “Champs-Élysées” – Digital Nomad

Robert Reid, National Geographic Travel’s ‘Offbeat Observer’ just published a wonderful article on The Bronx and The Grand Concourse.

In the article he writes:

“The man with graying dreadlocks raking outside a New York mansion is hip-hop pioneer Kool DJ Herc. He hasn’t switched careers, but is an artist-in-residence helping out at the Andrew Freedman Home, a one-time “country club” retirement home that’s now a workspace for graffiti artists, a 1920s-styled bed-and-breakfast, and space for homegrown art and theater. Up the street, a yoga class is under way outside Edgar Allan Poe’s 200-year-old cottage. Farther south, the intricate Beaux Arts façade of the 1913 Opera House, where Houdini once did tricks, is a newly opened hotel that fancies itself “boutique.” All 60 rooms are full, and staff advise guests to dine next door at the tiny Mexicozina taqueria, a neatly converted shrine of devotion to poblano specialties (like the best pig-ear tacos in town).

Few visitors to New York will have seen this. Nor have, to be honest, most New Yorkers. The reason is location.

This is the Bronx.”

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