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n Bicycle lanes, shared lane markings on way despite CB8, neighbor opposition rbrennan@riverdalepress.com

How do you feel secure in a place like Van Cortlandt Village? It all starts with the streets. Page A10

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DOT takes the ‘fast lane’ on Mosholu Ave By ROSE BRENNAN

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Ideally, community boards and city agencies are supposed to work in tandem to optimize the quality of life for people who call a neighborhood home. But sometimes, the city agency reminds the community board its input is only advisory, and ultimately it can decide to just do what it wants. That appears to be the case for new traffic calming measures coming to Mosholu Avenue. These include shared lane markings between West 254th and West 256th streets, as well as on West 254th between Mosholu and Riverdale avenues. Also included are wayfinding signage for cyclists heading to Van Cortlandt Park, curb exten-

sions on Mosholu and Liebig avenues, and bicycle lanes between Broadway and West 256th. One would be hard-pressed to find someone against making a street safer. But many who live, work and travel through this part of the neighborhood feel bike lanes shouldn’t be part of such a plan. Particularly on Mosholu. DOT first proposed the measures in 2019, but any implementation was put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic. But as vaccination rates increase and coronavirus cases almost all but disappear, city officials are poised to revisit some of the projects they were forced to abandon during the public health crisis. But even a year or more down the line, some who live within the confines of Community Board 8 still haven’t warmed up to the idea of bike lanes on Mosholu. And they made their feelings abundantly clear to Bronx DOT commissioner Nivardo Lopez at last month’s traffic and transportaMOSHOLU, page A4

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Mosholu Avenue will soon be home to another set of bicycle lanes in the community. But they aren’t coming without vocal opposition, as many neighborhood leaders decried the installation, claiming their concerns were ultimately ignored by the city’s transportation department.

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Bronx boss It won’t be long before voters select the next borough president. But is anyone a shooin at this point? Page A11

Art of the ideal Art Chang says he’s ready to lead City Hall. For him, being mayor is something he’s worked for all his life without even realizing. Page A3

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Pat Connaire painted a shamrock on West 260th Street near Delafield Avenue in memory of two neighbors, Rob Henry and Jimmy Becker. The shamrock painting is a tradition more than 50 years old meant to honor late loved ones in Riverdale and Kingsbridge.

Friends remembered with street clover painting n Pat Connaire continues 50-year tradition paying tribute to lost friends like Rob Henry and Jimmy Becker By BRENDAN O’SULLIVAN Intern

very year around St Patrick’s Day, a large shamrock appears on the pavement at the corner of West 231st Street and Kingsbridge Avenue. No, its sudden formation isn’t a magical apparition created through the luck of the Irish. Instead, it’s part of a

tradition that’s more than a half-century old, continued by Pat Connaire to memorialize Kingsbridge residents who recently died. Yet, it’s a tradition that has once again found its way to North Riverdale in recent weeks. And it’s all because of the passing of Rob Henry and Jimmy Becker. Connaire painted a shamrock on West 260th Street near Delafield Avenue, looking to provide some solace for the families and friends of the two men. “It’s a meeting place for everybody,” Connaire said. “It’s almost like church. People go in there and you get some kind of feeling. It’s like closure.” While this shamrock painting tradition may have originated in Kingsbridge, Connaire has brought it to

North Riverdale. And he’s expanded it beyond just St. Patrick’s Day — now, he paints a clover whenever he deems it important to mark events, like deaths, throughout the greater Kingsbridge and Riverdale area. But the shamrocks — especially the one on West 260th — are hardly a one-man job. Mary-Anne Connaughton, owner of Mary-Anne’s Irish Gift Shop on Riverdale Avenue, visited the spot just blocks from her store to draw the shamrock’s outline. From there, Connaire invited some family members and friends of Henry and Becker to participate in actually painting the clover. Its green interior is accentuated with a yellow and white outline. SHAMROCK, page A4

Framing business returns after awful ceiling collapse n Rescued from the rubble, Nohad and Samia Jourdy vowed to reopen storefront By BRENDAN O’SULLIVAN Intern

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Nohad Jourdy, co-owner of Picture Perfect Frames on West 231st Street, works on a customer’s order in the back of the newly reopened store. The store’s ceiling collapsed on Jourdy and his wife, Samia, last November, shutting down the business.

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The months were long as they gathered permits and waited for construction to finally finish. But just before Memorial Day the wait was over. Nohad and Samia Jourdy reopened Picture Perfect Frames on West 231st Street. And this time its ceiling is perfectly in-

tact — unlike what happened last November when it collapsed with the two of them inside. “It’s good to come back for business,” Samia said. “It feels good.” It was a typical Monday when the couple arrived at their family-owned business in Kingsbridge last year. Nohad focused on the front of the store, while Samia took on her usual work station in the back. But all of that changed later in the afternoon, and in a matter of seconds. The store’s ceiling collapsed, burying Nohad and Samia, screaming for help in what became total darkness. CEILING, page A4

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Gunfire erupted in front of the 5500 block of Broadway on May 22. Police say someone fired off approximately five rounds toward a Mercedes-Benz around 5:30 p.m., injuring the leg of a passenger inside. The shooter ran off down West 230th Street while the car’s passenger was taken to a nearby hospital. Police have some solid leads on this shooting, they said. They recovered several shell casings at the scene, and found bullet holes in a UPS truck parked nearby. The incident also was caught on camera. Authorities describe the shooter as a Black man, around 20, weighing 160 pounds. He was wearing a gray hooded jacket, gray sweatpants, and white sneakers.

A day late, $1,000 short?

from an unsuspecting pedestrian. It all took place on West 197th Street and Reservoir Avenue around 8 p.m., according to a report. The victim told police someone came from behind and pushed him, before pressing a silver-and-black gun to the back of his neck. The robber then reportedly said, “You know what time it is,” before ripping off his necklace, bracelet, and three $100 bills. With loot in hand, he ran down Reservoir toward Sedgwick Avenue. Police found no witnesses of the attack, but say they have some solid leads thanks to camera footage. They describe the robber as a 30-year-old Black man who’s 5-foot-8 and weighs 190 pounds. He was wearing a black baseball hat, jacket and sneakers.

More CR-Vs, please

There’s almost no feeling worse than looking at your bank account to find more than $1,000 missing when you never withdrew that money. Unfortunately, that’s what happened to one man sometime between April 19 and April 22. The man was expecting a new debit card to arrive in the mail from KeyBank, police said, but never received it. However, to his surprise, the card somehow activated itself and withdrew $1,100 from his account. Police know it’s not magic and that someone must have intercepted the man’s bank card. Still, they have few leads as detectives continue looking into it.

Hitting the jewelry jackpot

Stealing jewelry off someone on the street can be a tricky bet, because a criminal never really knows the value of what they’ve taken. But that gamble paid off for one robber May 23 after he stole $63,000 worth of bling

It’s hard not to draw the conclusion that Honda CR-Vs are very easy to break into after months of the SUVs being stolen. And like clockwork, police report at least two more CR-V thefts in recent weeks. The first incident took place opposite the 2500 block of Independence Avenue sometime between May 18 and May 22. According to a report, the victim parked around 4 p.m., returning five days later to find it missing. The 2019 CR-V was valued at $29,000. The second theft took place near the 700 block of Kappock Street — a story almost identical to what happened on Independence. Here, police said the victim parked his 2016 CR-V around 8 p.m., on May 27, returning the following morning to find it missing. Police valued that car at $21,000. The 50th Precinct has few leads on either case. There were no cameras or broken glass, and ultimately not much for investigators to work with.

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n NYC Votes co-founder looks to revitalize small businesses, reform NYPD By ETHAN STARK-MILLER estarkmiller@riverdalepress.com

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Art Chang says his years in city and state government — as well as local non-profits and technology companies — make him the best choice for the city’s next mayor. Chang is running for the position in a June 22 Democratic primary against bigger-name candidates like entrepreneur Andrew Yang and Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams. the city was handling it and communicating to people. I decided that I could no longer work in the private sector, and I had to go do something about this.” Chang believes he has the resume to address these issues. After leaving the counsel’s office in 1994, he managed the Queens West waterfront development in Long Island City. This was the first planned project with universal broadband internet access,

If Art Chang becomes mayor, he wants to help the Bronx recover from the coronavirus pandemic by extending the current rent moratorium and providing other financial relief to small businesses.

Chang says, and it was one of only two developments that didn’t lose power during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Chang found himself on the boards leading the domestic violence non-profit Safe Horizon and the Brooklyn Public Library. He also was the first and only Asian person ever appointed to the city’s campaign finance board — a position he held for nine years. Perhaps Chang’s biggest claim to fame comes in the form of something everyone casting a ballot will receive when polls open in just a couple weeks: the iconic “I voted” sticker. That was something developed by NYC Votes, an organization Chang co-created. But the organization does a lot more than just make stickers. It also publishes an online voter guide and provides a number of technological services that make it easier for candidates to comply with campaign finance rules. It’s exactly the kind of thinking Chang believes will allow him to help the Bronx — and the city at large — recover from the economic devastation left by the coronavirus pandemic.

“The Bronx … has a huge reliance on small businesses, especially family businesses, as a source of employment and growth for much of the population,” Chang says. “When COVID hit, there was a disproportionate effect on those small businesses. Especially the immigrant family-owned businesses. And many of them will not recover. But to bring the Bronx back, it’s going to take a real focus on small businesses.” To do this, the city must support businesses by continuing its rent moratorium, Chang says, while also helping with property taxes, water bills and other expenses. Chang also wants to prioritize how New York City addresses the surge in hate crimes against marginalized groups — like those from the Jewish and Asian communities. As an Asian man himself who grew up in an all-white community in Akron, Ohio, Chang says he’s all too familiar with a lot of the hate victimizing people in New York today. “As an example, my kindergarten teacher — on the first day — called in the principal and said, ‘I can’t teach this boy because my brother is

fighting people who look like him in Vietnam,’” Chang remembers. Stemming hate crimes means directing public schools to focus on teaching about the various racial and ethnic groups that make up the city. Chang also would try fostering connections between targeted groups — like the Jewish and Asian communities — to help them stand up to hate. Together. As far as the New York Police Department goes, Chang believes the city is both over-policed and underpoliced at the same time. It’s because the city has more police officers per capita than any other city in the country. But at the same time, the NYPD often isn’t deployed to the communities where they’re needed most. “We see that there’s this incessant focus on the increase in the most violent crimes,” Chang says. “And we need that focus. But, on the other hand, we’re having record low crime overall. So, fostering this environment of fear in our city doesn’t really serve anybody’s interests. Except the interests of the police.” Chang’s plan to reform the NYPD is three-pronged. As mayor, he’d install a new regulatory and investigative body to ensure officers are treating those they are protecting right. He also would demilitarize police responses while also addressing the underlying societal issues that lead to violent crime in the first place — like hunger, a lack of good jobs, and poor education. Focusing on these underlying issues is so important, Chang says, because all of the city’s problems are interconnected. “I think this city isn’t working for anyone,” he says. “I have a strong belief that it has to work for everyone. And that the problems — while they are very interconnected — are solvable because the solutions lie in those interconnections.”

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rt Chang may not be as familiar with the Bronx as he’d like to be. But he has memories of the mainland borough from a particularly tough point in his life. “The South Bronx is where I stored my stuff after I went bankrupt,” he says. “So, I was really familiar with it back in 1990, which was really rough times back then.” It was all right after Chang’s first startup company went bankrupt because of what he calls some “terrible mistakes.” But it was the city Chang came to love so much that quickly saved his career. That same year, he landed a job inside the city government with the corporation counsel’s office. “That really began a 30-year career that has incorporated city government, the state government, nonprofits and finance and technology,” he says. Now Chang wants to take his experience from that diverse career to City Hall. It’s why he’s one of more than a dozen candidates vying to replace Mayor Bill de Blasio in a June 22 Democratic primary. Chang was inspired to run for the city’s top job after he saw how the city handled Black Lives Matter protests last summer as protesters clashed with police. “It just culminated all the frustrations that I had been feeling for years with the condition of the city,” he says. “I was appalled with the lack of preparedness. I was appalled at how

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City ignores neighborhood, moves forward anyway

MOSHOLU from page A1 tion committee meeting. Proving pivotal to the committee’s advisory against implementing bike lanes was purported disapproval from businesses along Mosholu. That was part of what ultimately motivated committee chair Dan Padernacht to not offer his support. “What I’ve heard are 37 businesses saying no,” Padernacht said last month. “We’re coming out of a pandemic where all of those businesses have been hurting for a year-and-a-half right now. So based on the businesses’ extreme disapproval of this, I’m not going to go in support of this bike lane.” But the reaction of those businesses wasn’t the only motivating factor for Padernacht’s ultimate “no” vote. The outgoing committee chair was actually more concerned about pedestrians crossing on the street — something he advised should be included in the city’s most recent proposal, but said ultimately was not. “When DOT first presented the plan two years ago, we stated to DOT that the most pressing issue on Mosholu Avenue was not speeding, ANDRO DURÁN but the most pressing issue was the the com-north-south crossing of Mosholu Avehborhoodnue at the various intersections,” Pady ignoredernacht told The Riverdale Press. “And in the two years between when they last came to us, DOT had no change in

‘The board also voted against the protected bike lane on Broadway, and DOT went ahead with it. This has been the pattern. This has been the history.’ BOB BENDER CB8 vice chair

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This isn’t the first time neighbors opposed the installation of bicycle lanes and claimed their concerns were ignored by the city’s transportation department. Something similar happened a few years ago along Broadway in front of Van Cortlandt Park, and some think history is repeating itself with bike lanes on Mosholu Avenue. the plan addressing what is the biggest concern on that street.” Ultimately, only two committee members came out in favor of DOT’s proposal — David Gellman and incoming committee chair Deb Travis. However, community boards only serve to advise city agencies, who can ultimately decide to overrule the

board’s opinion. And it seems that’s exactly what happened with the bike lanes on Mosholu. A DOT spokeswoman confirmed the implementation of the new traffic calming measures — including bike lane installation — began May 26, and is estimated to take eight weeks to complete. The agency didn’t comment

on how its decision was, in the end, contrary to what CB8 had wanted. To Bob Bender, the entire process seems strikingly familiar. “This is exactly what happened on Broadway,” he said at last week’s executive committee meeting. “The board also voted against the protected bike lane on Broadway, and DOT went ahead with it. This has been the pattern. This has been the history.” But just because it might be the same old song and dance for the community board and city agencies, it doesn’t make the end result any less

trying — especially for Padernacht. “It is frustrating to see the community come out, express concern and opposition to a plan, have the community board react and put forward a resolution asking DOT not to move forward with the plan, and to have the agency move forward regardless of that public input,” he said. “You want to believe that city agencies work for the people … but given the electoral process and all of its limitations, we don’t always see the public sentiment expressed in government decision-making.” Although the installation has just started, the community board already is feeling the wrath of its members and neighbors who were opposed to installing bike lanes on the street. CB8 chair Laura Spalter was frustrated with DOT’s decision, vowing to ensure the powers that be there were aware of her feelings. That’s because to her, it’s very frustrating when a local organization that knows its residents and its neighbors advises against a city project, only to have said city ignore it. “I know that we’re just advisory,” Spalter shared at a recent executive committee meeting. “We know we’re advisory, but it’s very frustrating to be ignored like that, particularly when we offered up a lot of traffic calming suggestions, but none of them are being acted on.”

World came crashing down, but always another day CEILING from page A1 “In one shot, (it) came down,” Nohad said. “It’s not like there was a warning or something like that.” Samia, who was in the back of the store, was the first to be struck by the falling debris. “I had no idea what happened,” she told The Riverdale Press while first responders were still treating her onscene after the Nov. 2 accident. “The whole thing was on top of me. All of a sudden, I was on the floor and it was dark. All I could do was scream.” Alex Gandia, a customer relations representative next door at Jim Hockemeyer’s State Farm branch, was startled by the commotion coming from his neighbor’s shop, and headed outside to see what was going on. It had all sounded like a freight train. “The noise and the vibration (were) just amazing,” Gandia said. “And then when you walk outside, it was normal. Cars driving by, pedestrians walking by. And then we noticed we couldn’t get into their door. And then we heard her screaming.” Gandia called 911 and the New York Fire Department quickly rescued the couple from under pounds of rubble. Nohad had been struck in the back of his head. Paramedics on the scene treated him, but he still nurses the injury to this day, regularly seeing a neurologist. “I’m still getting my head examined,” Nohad said. “But I’m trying hard to stay in the business and run this business.” Their neighbors, like Gandia, were worried about the couple’s health. “Our concern was about them and their family, of course,” Gandia said. “So, that’s the most important thing.” When the ceiling first collapsed, it wasn’t clear why. Since then, however, Nohad believes it was excess moisture that caused the accident. The collapse forced Nohad and Samia to close the store until the new ceiling was built. It was the second

time they were forced to lock the doors in 2020 after the initial shutdown in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. And even then, Nohad and Samia played the waiting game. They were out of work, just trying to survive despite not having any income. “I got money from my son, actually,” Nohad said. He “really tried to help me to keep going.” Now Nohad is welcoming back customers, but fears many still aren’t aware the store reopened. That said, Nohad hopes to see more faces return. “I like the customers, and I like the business,” he said. “I like what I’m doing.” Nohad and Samia scavenged through the store after the collapse in an effort to recover art pieces from customers. Gandia feared Picture Perfect — which has operated out of that location since 2002 — would not reopen. Many of their business neighbors checked on Nohan and Samia, and some even offered donations. “Residents and people in the neighborhood know who they are,” Gandia said. “So, they were very, very positive and very helpful, very inquisitive. They were concerned about their health and the future of the business.” The State Farm office even collected Nohad and Samia’s mail and customers’ names and phone numbers to pass along. “People try to help out as much as they could,” Gandia said. “We’re glad they’re OK.” Nohad and Samia have a positive impact on the commercial district, Gandia said, but their business also stretches beyond Kingsbridge into many places around the city, and even into New Jersey. Work is slow right now, but Samia says she knows the importance of being back and providing for the family. “Everybody loves to work,” she said. “Everybody loves to eat actually. (We) have to survive.”

HIRAM ALEJANDRO DURÁN / Photos

City firefighters rescued owners Nohad and Samia Jourdy from the rubble that was the ceiling of their Picture Perfect Frames shop on West 231st Street last November. They were out of work for months, until the ceiling was full restored in their shop.

Remembering friends using a little bit of green paint SHAMROCK from page A1 “It was amazing to see so many of (Henry’s daughters) Julia and Fiona’s friends show up to make Rob’s shamrock,” said Dana Connaire, Pat’s wife. The shamrock is just outside Henry’s West 260th home. Ann Henry, Rob’s sister, said her sibling left a positive impact on many people. “He told my brother, when he was speaking to him about his cancer, that he felt very fortunate and very blessed to have loved so many people,” Ann said. “Not to have been loved, but to love so many people.” Rob Henry was just 52 when he died from peritoneal carcinomatosis — a rare gastrointestinal cancer — not long after he was first diagnosed last December. The cancer had already spread, said Ann, and it was terminal. So he ensured his daughters Julia and Fiona were financially and emotionally set for when he died. “He told us at the beginning of January,” Ann said. “So, he was the kind of guy who wanted to make sure that things were taken care of before he told us. As my brother would say, it became very apparent as he called each person to tell them that he was terminal, that the call was really about him comforting us more than us comforting him.” Rob spent his career working with Verizon. Pat knew Rob for some 40 years despite living in different neighborhoods as kids. Rob was a great friend — but not just to Pat. “He’s always been there for people,” Connaire said. “He’s helped people battle things — like tough things in life. And he’s there for them.”

‘He felt very fortunate and very blessed to have loved so many people. Not to have been loved, but to love so many.’ ANN HENRY

sister of the late Rob Henry

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Rob Henry, left, and Jimmy Becker lived in the greater Riverdale area their entire lives. When they died, Pat Connaire painted a shamrock on West 260th Street in their honor. Dana Connaire referred to Rob as a Riverdale “staple,” and a friend to everyone. Some who attended the wake were once Rob’s neighbors in Riverdale, but had moved elsewhere. Still, they

came to pay respects because Rob “had always been so friendly and had made them feel so welcome,” Ann said. Jimmy Becker was a New York Police Department officer who died

at 59 from glioblastoma brain cancer, believed to be caused by working in the World Trade Center rubble from the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack. Glioblastoma is the most malignant of astrocytoma tumors, which can

occur in the brain or spinal cord, according to the American Association Neurological Surgeons. Becker also spent his whole life here. While Connaire didn’t know him as well as Rob Henry, but he understands how important Becker was to the community. Dana Connaire described Becker as a “loving” uncle and brother. Jack Becker — Jimmy’s nephew — appreciates the shamrock tradition, and is happy to see his uncle honored. “We think it shows Riverdale as a tight-knit community, which it has been since our family moved here over 50 years ago,” Jack Becker said. While this particular shamrock serves to honor Rob Henry and Jimmy Becker, the paint will eventually fade, leaving nothing but pavement. However, their friends and family say the memories and love toward the two will never fade. “Both will be dearly missed,” Jack Becker said.

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Briar Oaks’ journey from speakeasy to making history By SOPHIA ROMANO Intern

When the Fisher brothers opened Briar Oaks on the Henry Hudson Parkway in 1953, they probably didn’t expect their complex to thrive well into the 21st century. But 68 years later, the grounds have accumulated a unique personality through rich history and diverse residents. Before either of the residential buildings were constructed, the grounds were home to a popular speakeasy called Arrowhead Inn. Restaurateur Ben Reily’s 1923 nightlife hotspot sat on the hill now occupied by the Briar Oaks garage. Dorothy Delaney moved into Briar Oaks with her parents when it first opened in 1953. She shared some of those

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Before there was Briar Oaks, there was the Arrowhead Inn, a popular speakeasy that would draw its own kind of crowds to this part of the Bronx back during the days of Prohibition. experiences with the complex’s community newsletter, The Briar Oak Leaf, which celebrated its 200th issue last April. There Delaney notes the significance of the arrowhead motifs found on panels in the building’s lobbies, which she says are remnants from the Arrowhead

Inn’s interior. Piercing the historical core of the grounds, these arrowhead motif panels not only incorporate direct pieces of history into the everyday living of Briar Oaks, but also pay tribute to the grounds the residents there live on. Arrowheads were

unearthed during the initial excavation of the Briar Oaks property, and are believed to have belonged to the Lenape nation tribe. Therefore, the “Arrowhead Inn” as a choice of name hits a bullseye. At some point, like many developers, the Fisher brothers sold Briar Oaks, and the new owners weren’t as fond of the excavated artifacts as the Fishers were.. To this day, no one knows where those artifacts are, according to the newsletter’s anniversary issue. On top of that, the building started going into a state of disrepair — elevator maintenance was lacking. Rent soared. Objectors were prompted to relocate. But the frustrated residents didn’t just step aside as the new owner thought they would. Instead, they staged a successful rent strike, forming what would become the Briar Oaks Tenants Association, all spearheaded by resident Marion Silberman.

Silberman and her fellow tenants stood up for their home yet again in 1982 against plans to convert Briar Oaks into a coop. Their landlord at the time had reportedly intended to evict any resident not willing to buy a pricey share. The no-buy pledge sparked by the tenants association apparently made the landlord think twice about his eviction plan. Maintenance and rent weren’t the only issues that have plagued the community from time to time. The early days — like many residential complexes at the time — faced racial issues. At the same time, 1957 brought a new couple to the complex — the Varons. They immediately questioned why they had no African-American neighbors. When the building’s management explained they feared existing white tenants might object, this resident group led by the Varons disagreed. They circulated a petition, got a lot of positive response, but in the end didn’t make much of a difference. Clementine Pugh and husband G. Douglas were denied an apartment at Briar Oaks in the early 1960s because of the color of their skin. The Pughs weren’t so easily dismissed, however. They collaborated with a white family to pursue the same apartment the Pughs were told wasn’t available. Unsurprisingly, the white family was offered the home. G. Douglas reached out to the city’s Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, and planned a protest with neighbors, friends, and family. It wasn’t even necessary — the threat of the protest alone was enough to force the landlord to finally start renting out apartments to African-American families. That included the Pughs.

In 1996, a former journalist named Neill Rosenfeld noticed there wasn’t anything he or his neighbors could read that would give real news about Briar Oaks. Not long after, there was something NeIll sharing the ROseNfeld news — and something he would spend years contributing stories to: Briar Oak Leaf. “It’s important to them to know where their money is going,” Rosenfeld said. “If there’s a leak in the roof, is it going to be repaired? And what’s it going to cost? And how’s it going to work? It just seemed like necessary health maintenance for the community.” It doesn’t hurt that Briar Oak Leaf keeps residents updated on important issues within the complex. The front page even features a “from the board” section where tenants are told about important changes in the buildings that could affect their enjoyment of their home. Rosenfeld likes talking about the Pughs, and how they stood up against racism to become a major part of Briar Oaks history. In the end, they helped turn its mix of tenants into what they are today. Heck, for a time it was even the home of singer Tony Bennett. There isn’t the same kind of drama at Briar Oaks today as there once was. And for Rosenfeld, he’s perfectly fine with that. “It’s racially mixed, it’s ethnically mixed,” Rosenfeld said. “It’s religiously mixed. And it has been a place without problems for the last 25 years that we’ve been operating.”

BronxNet, Press schedule one last city council debate STAFF REPORT Weeks — even months — of campaigning have come down to this: The June 22 Democratic primary will likely set the stage for who will lead New York City in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Voters will choose for a number of roles including mayor and comptroller. But much closer to home, a decision must be made whether to allow newly minted councilman Eric Dinowitz to fill that role for the next two years, or if one of five other candidates should represent this community at City Hall instead. Dinowitz has been invited to join Carlton Berkley, Mino Lora, Abigail Martin, Daniel Padernacht and Marcos Sierra in what could be the final candidate forum of this city council primary race. And this one will be different from all the other forums these candidates have participated in the last several weeks — this forum will not be over Zoom. It will not be in front of a computer. It will be in-person. The Riverdale Press joins forces once again with BronxNet as we take one last chance to explore the positions and personalities of all six candidates for the seat that, until the end of last year, was held by Andrew Cohen. Michael Hinman, editor of The Press, joins BronxNet reporter and “Dialogo Abierto” host Javier Gomez in posing questions to the candidates ranging from education to housing, from policing to postpandemic economic recovery. It will be filmed just as early voting starts right outside the campus of DeWitt Clinton High School near the center of the council district, where the James Baldwin Outdoor Learning Center — which manages a community garden as well as a Saturday farmers market —

has been told to vacate by the city’s education department. The forum will then air beginning Saturday, June 19 at 11 a.m., and 6 p.m., with encore broadcasts on Sunday, June 20 at 5 p.m., and Monday, June 21 at 2 p.m., and 9:30 p.m. All airings can be found on BronxNet Channel 67 Optimum, and Channel 2133 FiOS. It also will be broadcast on BronxNet.tv, as well as shared on The Riverdale Press’ Facebook page. Eric Dinowitz is the obvious frontrunner in the race as the incumbent, but Mino Lora has picked up a number of high-profile endorsements in recent weeks, and could pose a formidable challenge. Also expected to make an impact on the results are Abigail Martin and Marcos Sierra, both who raised money ahead of a March 23 special election, but decided to sit that particular election out. That gave Martin a significant financial advantage to kick off the primary race just days after the special election ended, and her early spending has provided some momentum as well. The race also includes Daniel Padernacht, a former community board leader who was the first to enter the city council race — back in 2018. Carlton Berkley is a retired New York Police Department detective who, along with Sierra, are the only candidates who call the portion of the district east of the Jerome Park Reservoir home. Like the special election, the city council primary race is ranked-choice, meaning voters will be asked to choose their candidates from their favorite to least-favorite. On election night, if no candidate wins a clear majority, lowest-performing candidates will be eliminated and their votes distributed to other candidates until just two candidates remain, and one of them is over the 50 percent threshold.

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BUSINESS BRIEFS Bronx’s most expensive units are not in Riverdale Apartments are getting cheaper in Highbridge and Morris Heights, but more expensive in Riverdale as the borough’s average rent crept up from $2,012 in April to $2,026 last month. That’s all according to the latest data provided by MNS Real Estate. Two-bedroom apartments in Riverdale were up nearly 5 percent to $2,916, according to the report, while studio prices grew 4.5 percent to $1,914. One-bedroom units were also more expensive in Riverdale, but only by 2.6 percent, at $2,148. Yet average apartment rates still are not the highest in the Bronx. That title goes to Mott Haven, where both

studios and one-bedrooms are just slightly more than its northwest neighbor. Its two-bedroom apartments, however, are not as popular, averaging $2,756 in May. The cheapest apartments found by MNS was in Concourse/Highbridge where studios averaged $1,477. But when it came to one- and twobedrooms, the winners were Morris Heights and University Heights at $1,527 and $1,928 respectively. Year-over-year, Mott Haven reported the highest rent increases at 12.3 percent, with Riverdale coming in just under 10 percent. The reverse was true in Highbridge and Morris Heights, where renters found themselves paying as much as 10 percent less than they did in 2020.

By Michael hinMan Dr. Magbag retires ... to volunteer After spending 37 years at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, Dr. Rebecca Magbag decided to retire in April. But don’t think she’s leaving the Palisade Avenue facility anytime soon. In fact, she’ll stay on as a volunteer — one who is 80 years old. Magbag, who specialized in internal rebecca medicine during her magbag career, graduated from the University of The Philippines in 1972, according to an online bio. She

joined the Hebrew Home staff in 1984 several years after completing her residency at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan’s Murray Hill.

Just a demolition, or is it more? A single-family home built a century ago is coming down in Van Cortlandt Village — if it’s not razed already — but it’s not clear what might take its place. Both a two-story house and a singlestory garage at 3991 Saxon Avenue, behind St. Patrick’s Home Rehabilitation and Health Care are scheduled for a full demolition on a lot where it’s possible to build multifamily housing. If that’s what’s planned for this par-

ticular home, nothing has been filed with the city’s buildings department. Online listings describe the home as a three-bedroom, one-bathroom structure beginning a line of singlefamily homes in the shadow of the Amalgamated. The property was sold in January 2020 to S&N Saxon LLC for $722,500, which according to demolition paperwork, lists its owner as Leunard Vushaj. Also set for demolition is a small row of garages built in the late 1940s at 215 W. Kingsbridge Road near West 225th Street. That property was purchased by a Scarsdale company owned by Paulin Drugaj last year as well for just under $774,000. No plans have been filed there.

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What’s on? It’s pride month, and several LGBTQ-friendly groups in the Bronx and surrounding city suburbs are offering ways to celebrate with a series of virtual events. The programs — sponsored by Bronx Parents of Pride, PFLAG Rockland and Mid-Hudson Proud Families — include: • A conversation discussing the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s and how it differs from the coronavirus pandemic with Alan Rose, author of “As If Death Summoned,” on Monday, June 14 at 7 p.m. The discussion also will share different ways parents reacted to their gay and lesbian children in Rose’s book, as well as what the parents of trans and non-binary young people can learn from it. • A journey through LGBTQ history with Debra Fowler, co-founder and executive director of History UnErased on Wednesday, June 23 at 7 p.m. To learn more about participating in these and other events, email bxpop1@gmail. com.

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Van Cortlandt Park Alliance has a number of events scheduled. Advanced registration is required by visiting VanCortlandt.org. • A Juneteenth ceremony on Saturday, June 19 at 11 a.m. consecrating the African burial ground at Van Cortlandt Park. The event includes prayers by the Rev. Hermon Dardem from St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church, a libation ceremony by Chief Baba Neil Clarke, and live music from the Bronx Arts Ensemble. • A lawn party honoring parks commissioner Mitchell Silver is planned for Thursday, June 24 at 6:30 p.m. General admission tickets are $200, with more information available at GiveButter.com/VCPALawnParty • Beautify the Park Days take place every Monday at 9 a.m., through June 28

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tours at its cemetery, 4199 Webster Ave., throughout June. Upcoming theme tours include: • Countee Cullen, the salons, and the Black Tower tour on Saturday, June 12 at 2 p.m., celebrating Woodlawn’s African-American and Afro-Caribbean heritage visiting the sites of Countee Cullen and Hubert Harrison, and reading their writings along the way. Cost is $15 per person. • Woodlawn’s greats of jazz and vaudeville on Sunday, June 27 at 11 a.m., and 2 p.m., visiting the final resting places of many greats in the area. Stops include George M. Cohan, Nora Bays, Duke Ellington, and more. Listen to all their music played on a Victrola. Tickets are $25 per person, and $20 for members and senior citizens. For more information, call (718) 408-5624.

It’s the season for Wave Hill

Wave Hill, 4900 Independence Ave., has reopened for special restricted hours Thursday through Sunday from 10 a.m., to 5:30 p.m. Admission requires advance ticket purchase at WaveHill.org. Also reopened is The Shop at Wave Hill with a re-imagined floor plan intended to make safety a priority. It’s open Wednesdays through Sundays from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wave Hill House is open from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with Glyndor Gallery open from noon to 4:30 p.m. — both featuring exhibitions to limitedsize audiences. The café is open from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., for limited grab-and-go entrees, snacks and beverages. Although eating indoors is not allowed, seating remains available outside on the Kate French Terrace. Upcoming events include: • A virtual meet the artist session with Gyun Hur on Thursday, June 17 at 2 p.m., about her sunroom project • An on-site family art project — “Chosen Family Trees” — on Saturday, June 19 and Sunday June 20 at 10 a.m. • On-site yoga in the gar-

Woodlawn Conservancy continues its summer trolley

The Riverdale CommunitySupported Agriculture program is accepting members for its summer deliveries of organic and biodynamic vegetables. Deliveries are weekly each Thursday from 3:30 to 7 p.m., running from early June to late November. Full shares (for three to four people) and half shares (for one or two people) are available, and includes up to 10 vegetables each week. Fruit shares also are available, which include organic strawberries, blueberries, stone fruits, apples and pears across the season. For more information, visit Facebook.com/RiverdaleCSA, or email riverdalecsa@gmail. com.

Stay busy at the Sunday Market

The Riverdale Y Sunday market is open every Sunday between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m., in the parking lot of the Riverdale Temple, 4545 Independence Ave., near West 246th Street. Among the activities, there is food scrap collection every week between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. This includes fruit, vegetables, eggshells, coffee, tea, nuts, dried flowers and houseplants. For more information, visit RiverdaleY.org/community/ Sunday-market.

Art association shows continue online

The Riverdale Art Association continues its online exhibitions with “Renewal and Rebirth,” which is available now at RiverdaleArtAssociation.org. With musical accompaniment from Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons,” the show offers a multisensory treat, featuring work by art association members that include acrylic, mixed media, watercolor, collage and photography. Other online shows include “Moving Forward” and “Entering the Animal Kingdom.” Curators for the shows include Diana Catz and Anne Price, with video produced by Myra Joyce. To learn more, visit RiverdaleArtAssociation.org.

Kusama arrives at botanical garden

Advance tickets are now on sale for the New York Botanical Garden’s upcoming exhibition, Kusama: Cosmic Nature. It features work by internationally celebrated Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, and will be on view through Oct. 31 across the 2900 Southern Blvd. attraction’s 250-acre landscape, as well as in and around the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, and the LuEsther T. Mertz Library building. For those still looking to enjoy the garden from home, a series of virtual conversaPress 5.375 X 5.25 tionsBronx — “The Food Dialogues:

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This year’s Harlem Fine Arts Show features work by Bronx native David K. Dixon. The show itself is completely virtual, with more information available at HFAS.org. A military retiree, Dixon concentrates on oil and acrylics creating both figurative and abstract pieces, and showcases his love for music.

Neighborhood House comes to your door

The Riverdale Neighborhood House is now providing remote programs and classes to keep what has become a quarantined community engaged and prepared. Classes include: • An after-school program for families with children 10 and younger • Remote support for families transitioning to online courses and activities The neighborhood house also is offering academic support to high school students with an emphasis on math (like algebra and geometry). This includes 1-on-1 tutoring with Manhattan College students and test prep support. This service is available Tuesday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m., virtually. For more information on tutoring, call (718) 549-8100, Ext. 159, or email oacevado@riverdaleonline.org. For more information, visit RiverdaleOnline.org.

Family arts available in these trying times

Artist Nina Velazquez presents “Come Draw With Me,” a daily drawing activity via her Facebook page. Families can sit down together and create their own versions of Velazquez’s drawings, and are encouraged to post their new versions when complete. For more information, visit tinyurl.com/CommunityDraws.

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Some might say that the coronavirus pandemic was history in the making — and it surely is — but history itself returns with the Kingsbridge Historical Society. It all begins with a revolu-

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It takes a village — for traffic safety in the Village n Traffic island, street safety focus of proposed changes along Sedgwick By ROSE BRENNAN rbrennan@riverdalepress.com

It might seem, more often than not, a community focuses on a few topics du jour when it comes to traffic safety. Among them are bicycle lanes and parking. When the two issues intersect, however, it’s sure to be a controversial evening. Especially if it happens to be an evening when Community Board 8’s traffic and transportation committee meeting is scheduled. But sometimes, the committee moves away from those two hot topics, and instead turns their attention to community requests to make individual neighborhoods feel safer. Those most recent requests? Van Cortlandt Village. Traffic is a problem in this area near the Jerome Park Reservoir where some believe it needs speed cameras at certain intersections, and modifications to unpopular DOT features like a particular traffic island on Sedgwick Avenue and Van Cortlandt Avenue West. Reckless driving is not new in this part of the Bronx, especially across Broadway along Independence Avenue. And as the weather begins to warm again, it seems Sedgwick might receive the same attention for those not thinking about safety first when they get behind the wheel — particularly on the stretch between Giles and Stevenson places. Nat Solomon, who lives on Sedgwick, believes installing a speed camera at the intersection might deter would-be reckless drivers and motorcyclists. “Residents have complained about the growing number of speeding cars, dirt bikes, motorcycles and even ATVs in that area,” he said. “People gun their

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The traffic island at Van Cortlandt Avenue West and Sedgwick Avenue received renewed attention following a recent traffic accident and fatality. Modifications to the island were among several requests neighbors made to improve traffic safety in Van Cortlandt Village at last month’s traffic and transportation committee meeting. engines at the top of this particular location, and you have to sometimes jump out of the way of cars, motor scooters (and) motorcycles that are going at excessive speed … way beyond 25 miles an hour.” Solomon also wanted the committee to renew a traffic study request for a crosswalk at Stevenson and Sedgwick. Committee chair Dan Padernacht noted the city’s transportation deprtmenet denied a previous request for the traffic study. But since that was some three years ago, there was a chance they might be able to put forward a new request. Committee vice chair Deb Tra-

vis — who’s set to become the committee’s leader after this summer — agreed a crosswalk might benefit the intersection, given the street has quite a large distance between its current crosswalks. “People jaywalk across Sedgwick all the time — myself included — because you have to get across there to get to 238th, which is the main route down to the subway,” Travis said. “I think it would be a good idea — even at the risk of a parking space or two — to try to find a spot where an enhanced crosswalk could have minimal impact on parking, but would allow some sort of cross between Sedgwick and Giles.”

But one of the main issues Solomon raised was the Van Cortlandt Avenue West traffic island. Many have asked for the island to be modified following a traffic accident and a fatality at the location. Travis agreed that some sort of safety improvement is needed to be made there as it can be confusing — and at times dangerous — to navigate. Even for experienced drivers. “The intersection at Van Cortlandt West and Sedgwick is difficult even for people who know how the intersection is supposed to work,” Travis said. “I think that, probably, you could go through and make a list of all of the

various pinch points and blind spots on that intersection that make it difficult.” In addition to these proposed changes, Solomon also suggested reinstalling a yellow caution light at Stevenson and Van Cortlandt Avenue West, adjusting traffic light timing at Van Cortlandt Park South and Dickinson Avenue, and requested no horn signs in the area, as he believed the noise was enough of a nuisance to warrant them. “There’s a lot of honking of horns, all hours,” he said. “Nothing to lose by putting them in. Hopefully, we’ll have less noise and people will sleep a little later.” But even a request as seemingly simple as no honking signs wasn’t without controversy among the committee’s members. David Gellman argued people might just ignore the signs, while Ed Green argued the signs might do more harm than good — especially with P.S. 95 Sheila Mencher nearby. “That area has two crossing guards, and there are a lot of children going across,” Green said. “So that honking might actually be necessary in certain instances. You don’t want people being pains in the butt, honking for the sake of honking. But there are a lot of children crossing there.” While Solomon made several requests — and some members of the committee agreed with some of their necessity — Green also felt more people needed to be looped into the conversation about traffic safety in Van Cortlandt Village before any requests or modifications were made. “This really needs to be something that we get some type of consensus from not only Amalgamated, but a lot of other residents in the area,” Green said. “It’s a complicated area, and it’s not perfect. But it seems to work to some extent. “I think this is something that Amalgamated needs to be heavily represented, so we can get some kind of consensus (on) what the residents think about some of these changes.”

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Bronx looking for its next (executive) cheerleader n Borough president candidates want to add jobs, affordable housing

police precinct in the borough, where there can be a dialogue between police and their communities. “We need to really look at the measures to take to really bring accountability to those that have done wrong,” Fernández said. “And I think that can really bridge some of the gaps that lie between police and communities in building trust back.” Former New York Police Department lieutenant Sammy Ravelo, on the other hand, said he’ll advocate for increasing police presence in Bronx neighborhoods, and reinstating the anti-crime unit that was disbanded last year. Ravelo believes the NYPD is not a systemically racist institution, and he wants to get that message out to communities. “Saying — because it just fits the narrative — that in the Bronx the police have been involved sAMMy in some systematic RAVELO approach in arresting young men of color is just wrong,” Ravelo said. “It’s just not true. And those are the things I’m going to make our community aware of. I’m going to be that bridge that the community needs with the police.” LUIs State Sen. Luis sEpÚLVEDA Sepúlveda said one of his main agenda items as borough president would be strengthening protections for undocumented immigrants — work that he’s already started in Albany. Sepúlveda said he’d create a specific office within borough hall to help those who need it find a path to citizenship. Sepúlveda was arrested last January for allegedly strangling his wife. He faced immediate calls from his state senate colleagues and borough president opponents to resign and withdraw from the race. He did neither, and continues to deny the allegations. No matter what, Fernández said, it’s pivotal the Bronx elects someone who can bring the borough back after the devastation of the coronavirus pandemic. “This is a time that we really need to look at our leadership and who’s there,” she said. “And pick somebody that has bold and progressive ideas.”

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For the past decade, Ruben Diaz Jr., has been the Bronx’s chief advocate — roaming around the Boogie Down, promoting all it has to offer. But Diaz’s remaining time as Bronx borough president is waning. He’s term limited, and will be out of office by year’s end. Five candidates are vying to succeed him in a June 22 Democratic primary, hoping to convince voters to rank them No. 1 on a ballot that also includes races for city council, mayor and comptroller. Many refer to borough presidents as cheerleaders for their respective boroughs mostly because they have no real legislative power, and their main function is to advocate. They can introduce legislation to the city council, but none of the five borough presidents have an actual vote. However, they’re given sizable budgets each year that can be used toward borough-specific initiatives like improving public schools and parks. They also have a say in land use decisions with an advisory vote that holds a significant amount of sway. And perhaps, most importantly, borough presidents appoint community board members, including Community Board 8 here locally. Four of the candidates already hold elected office of some sort, and are using that to emphasize their experience with the legislative process. But perhaps the two candidates most familiar with how things work at the city level are the two council members in the race: Vanessa Gibson and Fernando Cabrera. Gibson has represented areas including Highbridge, Morris Heights and Mt. Eden for the past eight years. Her time in City Hall overseeing a $95 billion budget — and as an Assemblywoman — give her the experience to be a champion for the Bronx, she says, especially during its recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Gibson says she understands the impact of the pandemic because she was out in Bronx communities last spring when the city was hit hardest by the virus. “I have been in the trenches,” Gibson said. “And I’ve seen the impacts of COVID-19 on my own community. I was one of those elected officials out early on in March and April giv-

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If she becomes Bronx borough president, Assemblywoman Nathalia Fernández wants to host monthly town halls between police and the communities they serve. Fernández is one of five candidates running in a June 22 Democratic primary to replace Ruben Diaz Jr. as Bronx borough president. ing out food and (personal protective equipment), when it was really tough to access PPE, and really tough to get food.” Gibson has big plans for the Bronx. She wants to implement a jobs program that would expand construction and economic development as well as provide green jobs and create publicprivate partnerships. She also wants to transform industrial business zones into mixed-use areas, allowing for a combination of wholesale and retail businesses as way to increase foot traffic. “We need to look at how we get people back to work,” Gibson said. “I want to be able to create a real pathway to the middle class and build economic wealth and power and prosperity in the Bronx.” Gibson also wants to focus on improving Bronx schools. That means updating aging HVAC systems, closing the digital divide by acquiring more technology for classrooms, and even building new schools. Cabrera — who represents areas including Kingsbridge Heights — also wants to prioritize economic recovery from the pandemic. “Having us go through what we’re going through right now, where we see about 20 percent of all our busi-

nesses closing down and the level of unemployment rising up, that’s definitely going to be one of my priorities,” Cabrera said. The councilman, who’s served on the council since 2010, said one way he’d do this is by providing lowinterest loans to create new small businesses. He also wants to expand educational training for woman- and minority-owned businesses so they can get city contracts more easily. Cabrera has been criticized in the past for comments he reportedly made about the LGBTQ community. Most notably, he appeared to praise Uganda’s 2014 ban on same-sex mar- FERNANDO riage when he visited cABRERA the country that year. But he has defended his record, admitting gay marriage is the law of the land, and his voting record on the council shows support for LGBTQ rights. For Assemblywoman Nathalia Fernández — who represents areas including Allerton and Pelham Gardens — housing affordability will be a top priority if she’s elected borough president. Most notably, Fernández wants

to change the geographic regions factored into the area median income — the formula the city uses to determine how much an apartment can be to still be considered affordable. The AMIs of neighborhoods currently include wealthy regions of Westchester and Rockland counties. It’s those neighborhoods advocates say skew the numbers here. “The AMI is simply not working for ‘Bronxites,’” Fernández said. “We are the poorest borough. We have an income that (on average) is lower than the entire city and Westchester and Rockland. So, we need to really address how we can give to the commuVANEssA nity in a way that they gIBsON can afford.” Fernández would require community impact studies be included in the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure — the city’s process for considering new construction projects. Fernández also wants police reforms like ending qualified immunity and evaluating the use of lethal force in some cases. Additionally, she aims to hold monthly town halls with every

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Opinion

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EDITORIAL

Little guy is being left out

hen New York City’s matching funds program was first established in 1988, it was presented as a solution to big money out-muscling the “little guy” in city elections. The idea was to encourage candidates to raise small donations from potential voters — instead of larger donations from special interest groups — and in return, the city would give them free money that, in conjunction with overall spending limits, help ensure what it calls more balanced races. For city council candidates, if they can convince 75 people from their district to donate at least $10, then for the first $175 of every donation received by someone in New York City, that candidate receives a matching grant of eight times that amount. That means that $175 turns into $1,400. And it adds up. Four of the candidates in the March 23 special election to replace Andrew Cohen, for example, collected a total of $560,000 in matching funds despite raising $230,000. Not even counting the $1 million the city had to spend to conduct the special election, taxpayers ultimately paid $58 for every vote cast in the election that ultimately saw Eric Dinowitz win. And of the four special elections so far this year, that race had the most votes with more than 9,500. The race to replace Ritchie Torres attracted fewer than half those voters, yet the public funding topped $700,000 in that district. Price tag? A whopping $176 per vote. And don’t get us started on the Queens city council seat once held by Rory Lancman. Fewer than 3,300 voters cast ballots in that race won by James Gennaro, but taxpayers shelled out $940,000 to the candidates. That equates to about $286 per vote. And it doesn’t actually curb special interest spending. In the races to

replace Cohen and Torres, $390,000 was spent by unions and political action committees. That includes more than $65,000 to Dinowitz, and another $6,400 to Dan Padernacht. But these are small potatoes. In the mayor’s race, candidates there have raised more than $33 million so far for the June 22 primary, and have received an additional $32 million in taxpayerfunded matching grants. For the primary alone, more than $95 million has been doled out in matching funds citywide. Special interest groups have only paid out just under $16 million to this point — primarily to candidates like Shaun Donovan and Scott Stringer — but we should expect even more before the primary ends. All of this is not to say that the matching funds program is wrong. But it’s certainly flawed. What was originally a 1-for-1 match has become an 8-for-1 match over the years. Under the original model, this program would have cost taxpayers about $12 million this year — well below the $95 million all of us have to pay instead. It’s just a lot of money, even for a city the size of New York. Money that, for sure, could be put to use elsewhere. And very few of those dollars even stay within the neighborhoods candidates want to represent. Of the $746,000 mostly taxpayer money spent by the candidates wanting to replace Andrew Cohen on March 23, only about $140,000 was spent in the Bronx. That’s just 19 percent, led by more than $100,000 from Padernacht and Mino Lora, but barely helped by the less than $10,000 spent by now-Councilman Dinowitz. Do we just cap fundraising overall? Do we lower matching fund grants? Do we set minimum expenditures in home districts? It’s a lot worth exploring. And after more than 30 years of doing it this way, it’s time to start that exploration now.

POINT OF VIEW

Holocaust education one way to turn tide of hate

By JESSICA HALLER

ometimes I feel like we’re living through a season of hate. Between police violence against the Black community, random attacks on Asian-Americans, and violence against Jews across the city — including the recent anti-Semitic attacks on four local synagogues in my community of Riverdale — followed by violence against Jews across the country, it is hard to not feel overwhelmed by this rising tide of contempt. We do know what works to stem the tide: education. Part of what makes “The Diary of Anne Frank” so compelling is its universality, which is why it is required reading in most public school curriculums. A young girl, hidden with her family to protect themselves against irrational hatred and a national strategy to eliminate her people, has proven to be a story almost everyone can relate to. The importance of Holocaust education cannot be overstated. It is not just a story about Jews and a highly sophisticated strategy to wipe them from the face of the Earth. It is human history and what happens when a demagogue convinces an entire citizenry that their problems are caused by a group of people who are in some way “foreign.” Yet, in a first-ever 50-state survey, the Claims Conference recently found a shocking gap in knowledge about the Holocaust in New York state. Americans between the ages of 18 and 39 — millennials and Generation Z — have little or no understanding of what caused the Holocaust, or how and why it occurred. Three in five don’t know that 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. One in three think it was fewer than 2 million.Two in three have seen Nazi symbols in their community or on social media in the last five years.

To combat this ignorance, Assemblywoman Nily Rozic has introduced legislation that would study and improve Holocaust education within the state. It couldn’t come at a better time. “When study after study delineate embarrassing ignorance and misinformation about the Holocaust, we need to rectify the issue at the source — educational requirements,” Rozic says. “Ensuring that the Holocaust is properly taught in schools coupled with education on recognizing anti-Semitism and other hate crimes, is a crucial first step in stopping dangerous conspiracy theories.” The bill reviews schools’ compliance with existing Holocaust education requirements, and provides subsequent recommendations to improve curricula based on results. This should be a non-controversial bill as New York state already has a Holocaust education requirement. In the face of gross ignorance, ensuring compliance with the law and understanding educational gaps is the only logical step. Recently, Assemblyman Michael Benedetto — who chairs the Assembly’s education committee — tried holding this critical bill in an attempt to have it expire before the end of session. His motion to hold was overturned by a majority of committee members who voted against the chair, as they recognize the importance of the issue. The survey also showed that four of five millennials think it is important to keep teaching about the Holocaust, so that it does not happen again. Education is the generational answer to bigotry and hate. New York came out of this survey as one of the states with the “lowest Holocaust knowledge” score. We have a bill geared toward closing this yawning gap. Let’s get it passed.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

‘New normal’ a day at a time To the editor: English is a living language, constantly changing and evolving with a rate of change that seems to be accelerating. Some of the best cutting-edge, sharpest expressions from my college days today seem as quaint as proper Victorian English. Only weeks ago, the most common topic of conversations revolved around the vaccine. Do you have yours? Which one? What did you have to do to get it? Did you get any reaction? Today, the vaccine is no longer a topic of conversation. Now we talk about returning to normal. When will it happen? What will the “new normal” be like? I, for one, am not anxious to return to normal. At least not back to the normal that existed just prior to the pandemic. As I remember “normal” at that time, it was scarier than the virus threat. Trump was still new and feeling his oats — an old English expression. He was practicing his “Art of the Deal” with his new best buddies in China, North Korea and Russia. When that did not work out well, he started a worldwide trade war. That certainly got the attention of our former allies around the world. And since no one got sick anymore, he withdrew from the World Health Organization. On the positive side, drawing on his background in construction, he did get started on his great wall. If the “new normal” turns out to be a continuation of the same old normal, I think I’ll opt out. Maybe isolation was not all that bad. For one

What do we do now? To the editor: Maybe Mitch McConnell is right. Maybe Jan. 6 does not require further investigation. So what does he think we should do with what we know? And we do know. We have seen it up close. In detail. Again and again. So what do we do now? Do we let this moral insult — these unholy acts to our country, to our democracy — pass by as a group of excited tourists or a bad day? This cannot be ignored, unpunished, passed over. We ask for justice, For rec-

thing, I didn’t get the flu, and I saved a lot of money not buying clothes, gasoline, fancy meals, or theater tickets. Seriously, I did reflect back over recent history, looking for a period of normalcy to serve as an example for the “new normal” to follow. I checked the headline news from various periods. Sadly, I didn’t find a good one. In hindsight, it seems we were always facing a crisis or disaster. Pick your timeframe. There was always something happening. Even if you go back to the 1960s. A laundry list of headlines would include Vietnam. Nixon. Watergate. Iran hostages. Middle East oil embargo and gas shortage. Swine flu. Rampant inflation. Iraq. Afghanistan. Stock market crash. AIDS crisis. Domestic terrorists. Black Lives Matter. School shooting. Middle East unease. Hurricanes. Floods. 9/11. Jan. 6, 2021. Kennedy assassination. Income inequality. Impeachment. Recession. Environmental disasters. Police violence. Y2K fears. Mass shootings. Oklahoma City federal building. Ruby Ridge. Unemployment. Wildfires. Underemployment. Dying cities. Chinese ambition. Computer hacking. Ultra right-wing groups. Pandemic. And more. Take your pick. When you compile a list, none of the previous normal periods sound like much fun. I don’t know what the “new normal” will look like. I just hope it avoids the problems of the past. Living in total isolation is not a good answer. I guess we will have to take it one day at a time. Just as we always have. Hank Weber

ognition of this tragedy. For recounting of this deed. And, ultimately, we ask for a healing from the terrible wound that has been inflicted on the body of our country. Claire lobel

Bowman impresses To the editor: NorPAC, a non-partisan political action committee, met with hundreds of congressional members between May 3 and May 6. It was the first virtual NorPAC mission in the 20 years since its founding. I wish to thank U.S. Rep. Ja-

maal Bowman and his chief of staff, Sarah Iddrissu, for meeting with NorPAC on May 6 to discuss issues that are vital to the continuation of positive relations between Israel and the United States. The goal is to foster peace and tolerance in the region. The meetings explored issues of foreign aid, Iran, support for the Abraham Accords, and the holding of the Palestinian education ministry accountable for its curriculum. It is especially noteworthy that Rep. Bowman’s office was very receptive to hearing the diversity of opinions from the Jewish community, and wished to continue future dialogue on these important issues. sTan sCHer

Ready for a summer of renewal To the editor: This year has demanded that all New York City families and students do many things differently — they’ve had to think differently, learn differently, and connect differently with teachers, peers and the whole school community. At the city’s education department, we know we also have to think differently as we look toward the summer. For the first time ever, we are inviting all students to join us for a free, fun-filled enriching summer program: Summer Rising. This year, we will serve any student from kindergarten through 12th grade in July and August who wants to participate, and I am excited to be partnered with the city’s youth and community development department to reimagine what summer can be. Our children’s days will be filled with innovative academic support, social-emotional learning, and engaging enrichment activities. These programs will be designed by school teams in partnership with local community-based organizations, and offered in hundreds of sites across all five boroughs. After all the trauma and disruptions caused by the pandemic over the past 15 months, our children need a chance to reboot their education in fun and supportive ways as we approach the full reopening of our schools in September. It is time to begin regaining what the pandemic took away. Summer Rising is an opportunity to do just that, creating spaces for students to learn, grow, play and explore the city around them — from field trips to Central park and museums, to dance and art classes. Summer Rising also will provide an enormous relief to families by keeping children safe, supported and productive this summer. After enduring months when so many of our students were isolated from their teachers and peers, the opportunity to rebuild those face-toface relationships will do so much to support their healing process and prepare them for re-

turning to school in the fall. All students from kindergarten through eighth grade participating in the programs will have access to academic classes and enrichment programming, including field trips, arts activities, and outdoor recreation. Students also will engage in daily community building and social emotional learning activities. We know some students with disabilities may require additional supports to participate in Summer Rising, and those supports will be provided as needed. In addition, Summer Rising is a chance for high school students to complete courses in progress, make up credits to march toward graduation, and participate in academic acceleration opportunities. They also will be able to engage in important work experience and internship opportunities, like the Summer Youth Employment Program. As always, health and safety remain a top priority. Summer Rising will follow the rigorous health protocols that succeeded in keeping our schools among the safest places in the city this academic year. To support these efforts, parents will need to complete a testing consent form for their child so we can keep everyone healthy and safe. Summer Rising will be the start of revitalizing the powerful joy of learning together as we head toward a strong reopening of our schools, and warm homecoming for our students in the fall. I strongly urge the families of every child who can join us over the summer to sign up now. To learn more about the options available for your child, or to sign up, go to NYC.gov/summerrising. All programs are free, in-person, and have something to offer everyone. MeisHa PorTer The author is the New York City schools chancellor.

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Op-Ed POINT OF VIEW

Change for the better: Seeking second chances

By STACY KINLOCK SEWELL

fter more than a year of experience with a pandemic, we all can ask ourselves this question: How have we changed? Have we re-evaluated our priorities? Our friendships? Our life goals? As we ask ourselves these questions, I believe it is crucial for us also to put these same questions to a population we too often ignore: The incarcerated women and men of the state, many of whom have been working for years — and decades — to transform their former selves. For the long-term incarcerated population in our state, the chance of a timely parole hearing — let alone parole itself — is a dream deferred. Many among the state’s prison population are not youthful offenders. One in four incarcerated New Yorkers are older than 50, and New York has the third-largest population serving life sentences. These facts result in a relatively older prison population, as the median age creeps upward annually. These men and women have had years — decades, even — to transform themselves. If anyone cared to learn more about who they are, they would find men and women engaged in a daily struggle to become the best people, role model, and citizens they can be. I learned about them because I teach history courses at a correctional facility. There are two bills in the state legislature that would allow a measure of fairness to people who are serving long-term sentences and have worked at redemption. Both pieces of legislation are, or will soon be, before the codes committee, chaired by our local Assemblyman, Jeffrey Dinowitz. The Elder Parole Act would permit inmates older than 55 to have a parole hearing. The Fair and Timely Parole Act would make those firsttime parole applicants more likely to be released. Neither of the bills would simply open prison doors. The process of review is still in place, as firmly as ever. Both bills have been proposed previously, but have died in committee. The past year has caused many of us to reflect upon the pandemic’s impact, and the cumulative effects of a legal system that is punitive and wrongly purports to secure the public safety through mass incarceration rather than redemption and rehabilitation. As a professor in a maximum security correctional facility, I have met regularly with men who struggle to transform their former selves. Communication with my students at Sullivan Correctional Facility has been very difficult since March 2020, as the men there have no

internet or remote-learning access. The pandemic has only compounded problems of this population — disproportionately from Black and brown communities, and a number older than 50 serving life sentences. They are pursuing a bachelor’s degree in social science. Their coursework exposes them to philosophy, to women’s history, to forensic psychology. They gain critical thinking skills. They evaluate research methods. And they marshal evidence to make arguments in policy, history and economics. They work as a cohort, a learning community. They debate the causes of the Vietnam War in their cellblocks. The stronger students assist the weaker, and pay it forward by tutoring Englishlanguage learners and GED hopefuls. The last graduating class of men at Sullivan — 18 of them — had an average age of 48. Most have been serving sentences just above or below 20 years, the median time served driven up by the several students who had been incarcerated for more than three decades. On graduation day, they gather with their loved ones. Now they have a bachelor’s degree, a status which makes them role models in their communities. Some of my students bet their families that they can beat their sons and daughters, nieces and nephews, in obtaining their college degree. They pose almost no risk to the public’s safety. Among formerly incarcerated men and women with a college degree — those who graduate from colleges like mine in collaboration with Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison — there is a 2 percent recidivism rate. Formerly incarcerated individuals older than 50 have a 2 percent rate of recidivism, and those older than 65 almost never return to prison. We want these men and women to be judged on their merits, and upon who they are today. We want them to be able to come before the parole board. We want them to have their day in court. The enlightened and educated community of the Northwest Bronx knows the power of a liberal arts education to humanize and transform individuals. Please let Assemblyman Dinowitz, who is not a sponsor of either bill, know that he can be humane and preserve the public’s safety by supporting these bills.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Not part of the ‘establishment’ special education teacher as well as in his role as chair of Community Board 8’s aging committee, have overwhelmingly been minorities and people of color. Eric’s most resounding endorsements have come from Bronx legends and notables in the ilk of Ritchie Torres, Jamaal Bailey, Ruben Diaz Jr., Chantel Jackson, Adriano Espaillat and Kevin Riley. At a public rally in Riverdale on May 8, Ritchie Torres made it resoundingly clear that his endorsement of Eric Dinowitz for city council is based on an impressive legacy of action and results. In Eric’s first 13 days as a newly elected councilman, he has voted to ban the city from using certain pesticides, voted to make it easier for the public to view complaints to the Civilian Complaint Review Board, voted to allow city council staff members to form a union, voted to prohibit vehicles on boardwalks, and hired constituent service staff members. Eric’s most recent endeavor has been to successfully lead the push in legislating for free legal services for tenants who are subject to eviction proceedings. Having served through the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in an acute hospital environment, I sought solace in compassionate, focused and practical leadership, and this is the kind of leadership that I expect in my civic leaders. Demonizing one’s opponents through vilification and personal attack does not encourage the rational examination of ideas, and subverts the democratic process. Eric’s response to mudslinging has been to resist succumbing to tit for tat, and instead to remain positive, focused, and on task. I will be voting for Eric Dinowitz on June 22. Mary Kennedy

You can visit Trump — in prison To the editor: Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., recently announced the impaneling of a special grand jury focused on the Trump crime family/organization, not long after state attorney general Letitia James notified the public New York’s civil investigation of the Trumps has now become a criminal inquiry as well. No wonder desperate Donald Trump drew his infamous

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business bodies are buried. And now they’re being dug up. Indictments are sure to follow. You don’t create a special grand jury to last for six months for nothing. Deranged Donald and his evil brood had better find a better lawyer that Rudy “Tutti Frutti” Giuliani. Otherwise, the Trumps can expect a long, less-than-luxurious stay at Rikers Island penitentiary. JaKe PicKering

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To the editor: I am an Australian-born registered nurse living in the 11th council district in the Bronx. The fact that voting is compulsory in Australia has no doubt influenced my drive to participate in all local, midterm and general elections — with the recent March 23 special election, and the upcoming June 22 primary election being no exception. Last February, while strolling through Reservoir Oval in Norwood, I was introduced to city council candidate Abigail Martin. She quickly emphasized her allegiance to the “anti-establishment” movement, and pointed to Eric Dinowitz as the one who must be toppled. She told me how the movement was intent on “bringing down the old guard” and stamping on the “Bronx political machine” — of which she claimed Eric was “entrenched.” According to Martin, Dinowitz’s prominence in the race for city council was the product of nepotism and string-pulling. There was no mention of Eric’s service to the Bronx as a special education teacher — spanning more than a decade — nor of his commitment and service to Bronx senior citizens. It was not just the sensationalism and emotionalism of Martin’s narrative that made me feel uneasy, it was the utter denial that there was anything good about Eric Dinowitz. Repeated suggestions by the “anti-establishment” faction that Eric is a member of the “old boys club” is a seeming attempt to build a narrative that Eric surrounds himself with wealthy white guys, and does not care about Bronx minorities and people of color. This is at sharp odds with the fact that Eric’s entire adult life has been committed to serving those who make up the heart of the Bronx’s cultural, ethnic and socioeconomic dynamic. The recipients of Eric’s service in the role of

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In the final weeks of campaigning, Mino Lora has faced the same question over and over from her competitors: Did she support the Independent Democratic Conference in 2018? The answer from the Spuyten Duyvil non-profit executive has been a consistent “no.” But that hasn’t stopped Lora’s competitors from accusing her of backing the IDC — a breakaway group of state senate Democrats who voted with Republicans until they were dismantled just before election losses in 2018 — based on what some might say is scarce evidence. The proof? A $50 donation Lora made to the 2018 campaign of Marisol Alcantara, a former state senator and IDC member. Alcantara represented upper Manhattan, where Lora’s theatre education non-profit is based. Lora has consistently said she attended a Dominican women’s event Alcantara hosted in 2018, paying the suggested donation of $50. But that she never politically supported any IDC member, including Alcantara. On top of that, she didn’t even live in Alcantara’s district in 2018, and says she voted for Alessandra Biaggi over the leader of the IDC at the time, Jeffrey Klein. Biaggi beat Klein, helping to ensure there would be no resurgence of his Republican-supporting caucus. Still, the question led to some fireworks at a recent BronxNet debate between Lora and five other candidates competing in the June 22 Democratic primary to represent this corner of the Bronx on the city council. “The suggested contribution was $50,” Lora said. “I made that contribution. I never campaigned. I never petitioned. And I never voted for an IDC member.” Lora finished second behind Eric Dinowitz in a March special election to replace Andrew Cohen, where just 10 percent of voters showed up to the polls. Through ranked-choice voting, Dinowitz ultimately won with 58 percent of the vote, with Lora receiving 33 percent. Now Dinowitz has to not only beat Lora again, but four other challengers if he wants to keep his seat after the end of the year. Although neither fared well in the special, Kingsbridge Heights attorney Dan Padernacht and retired New York Police Department detective Carlton

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Attorney Dan Padernacht went after non-profit executive director Mino Lora for her $50 donation to former Independent Democratic Conference member Marisol Alcantara in 2018 during a recent BronxNet debate. Padernacht and Lora, along with four other candidates, are running in a June 22 Democratic primary to represent this corner of the Bronx for the next two years. Berkley have also returned to challenge Dinowitz. They’re joined by Riverdale social worker Abigail Martin and Norwood political activist Marcos Sierra — who both sat out the special election. Lora’s competitors have called her a hypocrite for attacking Dinowitz over his support of Klein, while having made the donation to Alcantara. “It’s a little bit unfair to go off on Eric for supporting the IDC when there is evidence out there that it appears as though you were supporting Marisol,” Sierra said. Padernacht, however, says the real smoking gun is a series of social media posts from Lora during the 2018 election that appeared to support Alcantara. “You were tweeting and promoting the senator,” Padernacht said. “It appears you were friendly with the senator and that you were supporting her. And if that’s not the case, if you’re saying you weren’t friends with her and you didn’t know her, I don’t know why you were tweeting and hitting her up on Twitter.” Lora said she posted those tweets in her role as a non-profit leader responsible for working with local elected officials — in this case Alcantara. Furthermore, Lora noted her unwavering support by the Working Families Party, No IDC NY and Biaggi herself — all of whom worked to dismantle the IDC in 2018. Dinowitz defended his support of Klein as the local state senator, but said he never supported the IDC. Lora wasn’t the only candidate whose dirty laundry was aired out in this debate. Earlier on, Dinowitz was asked

about the role his father — Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz — and how the Bronx Democratic Party machine he runs helped him win the special election. Lora worried Dinowitz’s close familial ties would prevent him from acting independently on the city council. “This seat does not belong to one family, it belongs to the people of the Bronx,” Lora said. “We have no evidence to say that you will stand up against your father as an elected official. As someone whose been elected to represent (us). It’s about checks and balances. It’s about democracy. And it’s about being accountable to the community.” But Dinowitz insists there are key differences between him and his father, although he didn’t specifically name any. “The reality is, I respect my father, I love my father very much,” Dinowitz said. “Sometimes we draw distinctions, and sometimes you actually want to work with local legislators.” The focus, Dinowitz said, should be on the work he’s been doing for the district. Since taking office in April, Dinowitz has voted on some bills introduced before his election. He’s also served as a tour guide for a number of mayoral candidates who happen into the council district — including Eric Adams and Andrew Yang — sometimes switching hats from councilman to council candidate in the middle of the work day. He’s also traveled around this part of the Bronx as councilman, holding outdoor office hours for constituents. “I go all around the district to make sure people know that my office is open,”

Dinowitz said. “I go right to where people are, to meet them where they’re at. To help them.” Dinowitz emphasized he often holds these office hours in the district’s lowerincome neighborhoods like Wakefield, Bedford Park and Norwood. Berkley said he believes Dinowitz has good intentions, but living west of Broadway means he doesn’t really understand the struggles of the council district’s less-advantaged neighborhoods. In fact, Berkley said, there’s still great inequity between areas like Wakefield and well-off neighborhoods like Riverdale and Woodlawn. The only way to remedy this inequity, Berkley said, is to have a council member from outside of Riverdale. “I’ve visited Woodlawn and my doctor’s (office) in Riverdale,” Berkley said. “And when I go through those neighborhoods, and I talk to other people, those neighborhoods are not going through what the other five points are going through. And what I’m saying is that, for close to 50 years, every council person we’ve had has come out of Riverdale. What about the other sections? We need representation from there.” Although she lives in Riverdale, Martin said she’s familiar with all parts of the district thanks to her time as a social worker. “I’ve gotten to know every single neighborhood,”Martin said. “I think each neighborhood in this district has a lot to offer. And I think we can learn from each other and emulate things that work in some neighborhoods and bring them to others.”

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Should electricity remain a utility — or should it be a right? U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman answers that question with a bill he’s introduced with Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush intended to guarantee basic utility services for all Americans, while reducing the country’s reliance on fossil fuels. “We need an energy system that is of, by and for the people — nor corporations seeking the largest possible profit,” Bowman said, in a release. “As long as energy is treated as a commodity — not a right — poor people, workers and communities of color will suffer.” If passed into law, the bill is intended to fund transitioning the existing power grid into one that’s backed by renewable alternative energy as well as push investor-owned power companies to either end shutoffs for customers who struggle to pay, or find more of their companies falling into public ownership. The bill is backed by the so-called Squad in Congress — U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar.

Weeding out bad cops?

City council Speaker Corey Johnson may be looking for other work at the end of the year, but apparently he still has some work to do. He’s joined forces with several elected officials including public advocate Jumaane Williams to push legislation that would ban New York City from hiring police officers from other jurisdictions who were fired for misconduct, or resigned while being investigated for misconduct. State Sen. Brian Benjamin will push that a step further by introducing a similar bill in Albany in an effort to make such policy a state one, and not just city. “All it takes is one bad cop to make a fatal mistake, shatter a family, and destroy the trust people have in all police,” Johnson said, in a release.

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SCHOOL DESK SNHU hails top Bronx students with honors Southern New Hampshire University might be a four-hour drive away, but some of its top students call this part of the Bronx home. Four of them, in fact, were recognized as part of the college’s winter president’s list. In order to qualify, students must be enrolled in the college fulltime and maintain a semester GPA of 3.7 or higher. Those local members of the president’s list are John Dukarm, Cesille Gentle, Annie Walmsley and Emily Walton. Southern New Hampshire University is located in Manchester, New Hampshire, and claims to serve more than 150,000 students worldwide. It was recently recognized by U.S. News & World Report as the most innovative regional university.

Principals’ union endorses Johnson It sure isn’t easy to lead

By ROSE BRENNAN a school. But the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators know who they want to handle the money in their city: outgoing city council Speaker and comptroller candidate Corey Johnson. “Our city is at a crossroads, and we need Corey Johnson in the comptroller’s office to help lead our recovery,” said union president Mark Cannizzaro, in a release. “On the city council, Corey has always been on the side of students, educators and working people. After negotiating multi-billion-dollar municipal budgets, Corey understands the city’s finances better than anyone, and that’s why he’s ready to lead as New York City’s next comptroller.” Prior to his run for comptroller, Johnson also sought the mayor’s office before dropping out last September due to what he described as mental health challenges. However, the endorsement from the CSA seems to have emboldened him in his latest quest for this other citywide office. “As comptroller, I’ll fight

to improve public schools and make sure teachers and administrators have the tools they need to help students thrive,” Johnson said, in a release. “I’m deeply grateful to CSA — not just for endorsing my campaign to be New York City’s next comptroller, but also for the hard work their members have done during this extremely challenging period in our city.” There are more than a dozen candidates running for the seat currently held by Scott Stringer, with Johnson about the middle of the pack in fundraising — just over $858,000 in private donations, according to the city’s campaign finance board. That puts him behind Zachary Iscol, Brad Lander, Michelle CarusoCabrera and Brian Benjamin. However, Johnson has scored the most matching funds so far, his $3.85 million just squeezing past the $3.81 million collected by Lander. So far, more than $7.4 million has been spent on the comptroller race, with candidates collectively ready to spend $15.6 million more.

Bx Science, American Studies ranked best The U.S. News & World Report doesn’t mince words when it comes to ranking high schools and colleges across the country. And two local schools made the cut this year. The Bronx High School of Science and the Bronx High School of American Studies both ranked among the top 50 secondary schools in the nation. Bronx Science was ranked 35th, while American Studies was 49th. This makes Bronx Science the fifth-highest ranking school in the state, and American Studies the eighth.

Both high schools were among 23 New York institutions on the full list.

Mayoral candidate calls out snow days The city’s public school system was stingy with its snow days before the coronavirus pandemic, but at least they happened once in a while. But with snow days not part of next year’s academic calendar, one mayoral candidate isn’t happy. Shaun Donovan asserted himself as proudly pro-snow day in wake of the city’s announcement, calling the deci-

sion to give students the option to learn from home during badweather days “short-sighted.” “Although well-intentioned, replacing students’ snow days with a solution we know won’t work for our most vulnerable children — or their parents — is deeply misguided,” Donovan said, in a release. “Hundreds of thousands of our city’s students still lack access to the devices needed for remote learning — an issue we saw play out with terrible results for too many of our children during this pandemic. “Instead of fixing that, the mayor is exacerbating its impact.”

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an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on 2-32021, bearing Index Number NC-000311-20/BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Aurora (Last) Arabi. My present name is (First) Aurore (Middle) Sofia Eneyda (Last) Arabi. The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Les Abymes, Guadeloupe, French West Indies. The month and year of my birth are May 2001. 3555 Legal Notice Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on 5/27/2021, bearing Index Number NC-000094-21/ BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Keanu (Middle) Rio (Last) Zaruma. My present name is (First) Mikel (Middle) Keanu (Last) Zaruma (infant). The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Bronx, NY. The month and year of my birth are March 2019. 3556 Legal Notice Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on 1-2121, bearing Index Number

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and year of my birth are January 2006. 3558 Legal Notice Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on 5/20/2021, bearing Index Number NC-000090-21/ BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Evian (Middle) Oumar (Last) Hull. My present name is (First) Evian (Middle) Oumar (Last) Diallo (infant). The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Bronxville, Westchester, NY. The month and year of my birth are August 2012. 3559 Legal Notice Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on 6/3/21, bearing Index Number NC-000108-21/ BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Jaylah (Middle) Marie (Last) Orsini-Acosta. My present name is (First) Jaylah (Middle) Marie (Last) Orsini (infant). The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Bronxville, Westchester Co., NY. The month and year

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3562 Legal Notice Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on 5/27/2021, bearing Index Number NC-000096-21/ BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Teon (Middle) Nathaniel (Last) Legree. My present name is (First) Tyanna (Middle) Nicole (Last) Legree AKA Tyanna Legree. The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Queens, NY. The month and year of my birth are June 1999. 3563 Legal Notice Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Bronx County on 6/3/21, bearing Index Number NC-000105-21/ BX, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451, grants me the right to assume the name of (First) Sally (Middle) Lynn (Last) Coulibaly. My present name is (First) Korotimi (Last) Sanou AKA Sally Lynn Caulibaly. The city and state of my present address are Bronx, NY. My place of birth is Burkina Faso, West Africa. The month and year of my birth are January 1976. 3564

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