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Bronx community board meetings

Community Boards are the little City Halls of the city, dealing with local issues involving city agencies, and serving an advisory role in zoning and other land-use issues.

Community Board: 1 (Melrose, Mott Haven) meets at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 29, at CB1 Office, 3024 Third Ave. Call (718) 585-7117.

Community Board: 5 (Morris Heights, Fordham, Bathgate and Mount Hope) meets at 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 28, at South Bronx Job Corps - Auditorium, 1771 Andrews Ave. Call (718) 364-2030.

Community Board: 7 (Norwood, Jerome Park, Kingsbridge Heights and University Heights) meets at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 20, at St. James Recreation Center, 2530 Jerome Ave. Call (718) 933-5650.

Community Board: 9 (Soundview, Clasons Point, Parkchester, Bruckner and Harding Park) meets at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 15, at CB9 Office, 1967 Turnbull Ave. Call (718) 823-3034.

Community Board: 10 (Throgs Neck, City Island, Pelham Bay, Co-op City, Zerega, Westchester Square, Country Club and Edgewater) meets at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 15, at Glebe House Senior Center, 2125 Glebe Ave. Call (718) 892-1161.

Community Board: 11 (Morris Park, Pelham Parkway, Laconia and Van Nest) meets at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 22, at 1200 Van Nest Ave., Lubin Hall - Mazur Building. Call (718) 892-6262.

Community Board: 12 (Wakefield, Williamsbridge, Woodlawn Eastchester and Baychester) meets at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 22, at CB12 office, 4101 White Plains Road. Call (718) 881-4455.

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Bronx Resident Has War Museum

Joseph Garofalo stands among his war relics that include these Army, Navy and Marines insignia. Items from all four branches of the military are featured.

 

Grenades of various types, coins and medals donated by local vets can be viewed by visitors, who can also look up and enjoy the models of war planes collected by Garofalo.

Korea and Vietnam conflicts are remembered among these badges of honor that hang beneath some of the equipment of war.

Nazi motorcycle gloves, a box labeled “beans with frankfurter chunks,” and a knife made out of the propeller of a downed Kamikaze plane. They are just some of the small relics of war Bronx veterans have brought home over a century, and Joseph Garofalo is fighting to find them a home.

The 87-year-old retired carpenter and lifelong Bronx resident has created an eclectic exhibit of more than 100 items - what he loosely calls the Bronx Veterans Museum.

It is currently housed in a corner of the sitting room at the John Dormi & Sons Funeral Home on Morris Park Ave.

The exhibit’s most popular feature is two growing binders filled with photos of Bronx veterans, dropped off by family members or the vets themselves.

New this month is a showcase, paid for by veterans, filled with uniforms from the Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force from World War I through the Vietnam War.

“People come in almost every day,” said Terry LeVoci, office manager of the funeral home. “They want to look at pictures or artifacts. They are drawn to it.”

Garofalo would like to find a permanent display area in the Bronx.

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Puerto Rican Day Parade Hits 20 Years!

The Grand Concourse will mimic the tropical beauty of San Juan

Sunday, as Bronxites of all nationalities celebrate the 20th Annual Bronx

Puerto Rican Day Parade.

Little cheerleaders show off their skills in last year’s Bronx Puerto Rican Day Parade.

The parade kicks off at 1 p.m. at 176th St., and marches down the Grand Concourse to 167th St.

Some 130 groups, including seven marching bands, four classic-car groups, bicycle enthusiasts, sponsored floats - from the likes of the Daily News, New York Yankees and Child Health Plus - veterans, singers, beauty queens and dancers will make their way along the Bronx’s main thoroughfare.

“This year, it’s going to be three times bigger than it has ever been,” said parade organizer Ruben Rios.

Representatives from Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut and towns throughout Puerto Rico will also march.

“The parade now has an international and national flavor,” said fellow parade organizer Francisco Gonzalez.

The grand marshal is Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión. Among the honorees will be the Rev. Louis Gigante, founder of the South East Bronx Community Organization, which helped revitalize the burned-out South Bronx. Also to be honored are the surviving members of the 65th Infantry Regiment, composed primarily of Puerto Ricans who served in the Korean War.

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