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Bringing help for renters, and a cleaner environment with it

The Inflation Reduction Act signed by President Biden in August is the single-largest investment the country has ever made to protect our environment, lower our greenhouse gas emissions, and tackle the climate crisis. more

By Adriano Espaillat & Julie Tighe | 3/17/23

Fossil fuel companies are harming us a lot

Internal emails, recently unearthed by the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform, show none other than a media lead for Shell, wishing “bedbugs” upon us, youth climate activists from the Sunrise Movement. And we’re not surprised. more

By Keanu Arpels-Josiah | 3/10/23

Taking notice of environment

To the editor: In a stunning breakthrough for environmental justice in New York City and New York state, a robust coalition of grassroots environmental justice groups have achieved the nearly unthinkable. On Jan. 5, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill designed to begin to protect low-income communities and communities of color such as the South Bronx from the cumulative effects of decades of racist siting of polluting facilities. more

2/3/23

Landscaping equipment and a pile of earth remain after excavation work at a parking lot used by the Schervier Rehabilitation and Nursing Center's staff at the intersection of Independence Ave and W 231st St on Wednesday, September 28, 2022.

Community speaks up for the trees over Schervier plans

When a chainsaw whirs into action in Riverdale, seemingly everyone west of the Henry Hudson Parkway hears it. more

By Abigail Nehring | 10/21/22

New city parks commissioner Susan Donoghue, left, and deputy Iris Rodriguez-Rosa give their thanks to Mayor Eric Adams, who announced their new roles during a news conference last February. Donoghue is a longtime community parks leader in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, while Rodriguez-Rosa was most recently the Bronx parks commissioner.

The dynamic duo tasked with saving Bronx parks

Eric Adams wants to spend so much time focused on parks, some might mistake him for Robert Moses — at least the good qualities of that New York City icon. And the mayor will do that through a new leadership team pulled from the outer boroughs. more

By STACY DRIKS | 3/13/22

Part of the nearly one-mile stretch of unkempt land along the Major Deegan Expressway between Van Cortlandt Park South and West 230th Street, was a railroad line that hauled freight in and out of the city until the early 1980s. For more than a decade, Community Board 8 and other city leaders have wanted to transform that land into a park — maybe even into a brook — but CSX Transportation has remained in the way, refusing to sell the land inexpensively.

CSX close to giving up Putnam Line

After more than a decade of negotiation spanning three mayors and direct involvement from a future U.S. Senate Majority Leader, the stretch of vacant land running along the Major Deegan Expressway south of Van Cortlandt Park may finally be on the verge of selling. more

By MICHAEL HINMAN | 1/24/22

New York voters will have the chance to weigh in on five ballot proposals Nov. 2 that, if passed, would amend certain parts of the state constitution. Voting yes on the second proposal is intended to give anyone living in the state the right to clean air, water and a healthy environment.

A vote for the right to a much cleaner environment

When voters go to the polls on Tuesday, it will have been nearly two months since the city was battered by the remnants of Hurricane Ida. more

By ETHAN STARK-MILLER | 10/31/21

The city’s transportation department and Con Edison have partnered to install electric car charging stations throughout the city. This includes two new stations on Broadway between West 240th and West 242 streets.

Broadway gets electrified with new car chargers

Elon Musk may have never heard of Riverdale, but it’s clear the influence of the electric car pioneer has finally reached this corner of the Bronx. more

By ETHAN STARK-MILLER | 6/6/21

Jerry Goodman, second from left, and wife Mimi Goodman on the far right, have worked hard to bring better understanding and acceptance of the LGBTQ community into this part of the Bronx. They continued that with a seminar sharing the best ways to interact with LGBTQ family members and friends over the holidays.

Looking for just the right thing to say over the holidays

We’ve all been there. Holiday dinner with the extended family, and one member you’re just not the most comfortable interacting with. Not that you have any issue with that person. It’s just that you’re overcome with fear: Fear of saying the wrong thing. more

By MICHAEL HINMAN | 12/23/20

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