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Anyone watching the Oct. 13 Community Board 8 meeting might have thought they mistakenly tuned into a public access television sitcom. more

10/28/22

Gov. Kathy Hochul stopped by Riverdale on her Saturday tour of the Bronx. Hochul has a sizable lead over her Republican opponent, Republican Lee Zeldin, according to recent polling.

Robert’s Rules of Disorder

Deb Travis was appointed to be new chair of the Parks and Recreation committee for Community Board 8. more

By Sachi McClendon | 10/21/22

Father Joseph Franco of Out Lady of Angels Church in Kingsbridge Heights blesses three rosebud trees planted in memory of those who perished during COVID-19 over the past two years. The ceremony took place April 9 in a park at the corner of University and Reservoir avenues in Kingsbridge Heights.

Personalizing a pandemic’s perpetual fury with a tree

Paul Waylonis. Luis Tovar. Vidal Galicia Chalpeno. Those were just a few of the more than 40 names of those lost to COVID-19 that were read aloud April 9 at a memorial on the corner of University and Reservoir avenues in Kingsbridge Heights. more

By GARY LARKIN | 4/17/22

Some who travel through the intersection of Bailey Avenue and West 238th Street say it’s one of the community’s most dangerous blocks — especially as people rush home and driver awareness about other vehicles and pedestrians becomes blurry. But there might not be much the city’s transportation department can do to fix it.

Just look four ways before crossing

At least as far as the 50th Precinct goes, there’s a little more than one car crash per day which, in January, injured 33 people. Thankfully, no one died, but will that always be the case? more

By STACY DRIKS | 2/28/22

The Major Deegan Expressway has many rough patches as it snakes its way around the Bronx. It’s enough to create confusion — so much that exits like the one at West 230th Street has picked up new signage from the state’s transportation department letting drivers going the wrong way know they’re going the wrong way.

New signs dot Major Deegan, but are they enough?

It seems every corner of the Major Deegan Expressway has a story, at least in the eyes of Melba Taveras. “There’s been an accident there, there, over there, and there,” says Taveras, manager of Fiesta Liquors, just off the expressway on West 230th Street and Bailey Avenue. more

By SARAH BELLE LIN | 2/7/22

The city’s transportation department plans to scale back the curbs at Kappock Street and Palisade Avenue, but face pressure from neighbors who claim previous ‘upgrades’ actually made that intersection worse, especially when it comes to draining water — causing what they say were significant floods during last summer’s storms.

Neighbors push back on plans for Kappock, Palisade

First came the long stretches of previously unpaved roads. Then one complaint became the first drop in a bucket, filled by a torrential downpour of protests. It’s as if we’re on the road to nowhere, and stuck in a purgatorial loop — and it’s right where Kappock Street and Palisade Avenue meet. more

By SARAH BELLE LIN | 1/16/22

The city’s transportation department recently added left-turn ‘calming measures’ resembling mini-speed bumps and repainted the crosswalks at the intersection of Kappock Street and Johnson Avenue. These changes came after a wave of outcry after an express bus driver struck and killed prominent neighborhood resident Ruth Mullen while she traversed the crosswalk.

DOT moves quickly to fix fatal intersection

It seems rare city agencies quickly respond to community demands. But so far, changes like what’s happening where Kappock Street and Johnson Avenue intersect in Spuyten Duyvil are the rare exception to that rule. more

By ETHAN STARK-MILLER | 10/17/21

An express bus shoots around the corner at the intersection of Spuyten Duyvil’s Kappock Street and Johnson Avenue, where local political activist Ruth Mullen was killed Sept. 7. Lawmakers want the city’s transportation department to move quickly to ensure pedestrians like Mullen are safe when using the crosswalk there.

Lawmakers demand swift action to fix intersection

An express bus navigating the tricky turn from Kappock Street to Johnson Avenue claimed the life of Ruth Mullen on the evening of Sept. 7 — a woman who spent years advocating for a traffic signal at that very intersection in front of her home. more

By MICHAEL HINMAN | 9/18/21

Ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft have become a part of the city’s transportation landscape. But a new service — called Co-op Ride — hopes to circumvent these giants’ alleged exploitative business practices by having their company owned and operated by its drivers.

Hailing a new, co-op ride-hailing app owned by drivers

For better or for worse, ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft have become part of the city’s transportation landscape. But their names also have been in the news for other reasons — among them alleged union busting, at-times exorbitant prices, and general mistreatment of drivers. more

By ROSE BRENNAN | 7/25/21

There are many traffic safety measures that should be implemented within Van Cortlandt Village, according to Nat Solomon: like ‘no honking’ signs, caution lights, and modifying a traffic island at Sedgwick Avenue and Van Cortlandt Avenue West. But the first two — along with other proposals — won’t be discussed again until fall, when a new Community Board 8 session begins.

CB8: No man is a traffic island, entire of itself

It was only May when Nat Solomon brought several traffic safety changes he wanted to see in Van Cortlandt Village to the attention of Community Board 8’s traffic and transportation committee. But for many of them, he might be waiting a bit longer. more

By ROSE BRENNAN | 7/4/21

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