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The Yale Club Invaded by the Bronx, Investigated By the IRS

TalkBXAdmin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:48:59 +0000

The Yale Club in New York is supposed to be a posh haven in the city for alumni of the respected Ivy League. Instead, complain some members, the club is being overrun by outsiders and worst of all many of these outsiders come from the Bronx.
The New York Post is reporting that lately the club has hosted a rash of weddings and one member insists the weddings primarily seem to involve people from the Bronx. Clearly, this is unacceptable. Furthermore, there have been so many nonmembers using the club that members have trouble getting rooms, using the gym or swimming. Not without having to run into these ~~Bronxites~~ outsiders.
This boom may not be good for the old Yalies but it is good for business… except that now the IRS is involved:

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Dirt, home plate, and ghosts moved to new Yankee Stadium

TalkBXAdmin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:42:35 +0000

On a rainy Saturday a group of young Bronx residents and former Yankee stars dug out home plate and the pitching rubber at Yankee Stadium.A group of Bronx youths along with Scott Brosius, Paul O’Neill, David Cone, and Jeff Nelson filled buckets with stadium dirt from the pitcher’s mound and the home plate area.

The dirt was then taken across the street to the new Yankee Stadium and mixed into the existing dirt around home and the mound.

With a symbolism that the supernatural tends to gravitate to, old memories and successes were blended into the new soil where the next Yankee dynasty will take root. (more…)

Bronx River Parkway mid-day closing S/B in Scarsdale today

TalkBXAdmin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:35:54 +0000

Mid-day traffic will be diverted from a section of the Bronx River Parkway this week week as workers re-apply a protective surface to the median barrier and carry out other work, the county announced.

The southbound lanes between Crane Road at Exit 12 in Scarsdale and Harney Road at Exit 10 in Eastchester will close from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today and Thursday. The northbound lanes along the same section will close during the same hours tomorrow and Wednesday. (more…)

The Bronx Week: Day 1

TalkBXAdmin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:16:58 +0000

(antiMusic) The Bronx roar back this week with their third album! To celebrate this release we asked frontman Matt Caughthran to pick his favorite tracks from the album and tell us about them. He more than delivers! Here is Matt with today’s song:Knifeman- this is the first song on the new record and currently my favorite song to play live. Knifeman’s title is a tribute to a neighbor I had growing up in Pico Rivera CA. (more…)

The Bronx Boils Over

TalkBXAdmin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:57:49 +0000

Bronx Democrats were buzzing this weekend about a verbal altercation between embattled party boss Jose Rivera and his formerally, election law attorney Stanley Schlein, that took place at the tony El San Juan bar on the first night of Somos el Futuro.

According to several witnesses, Rivera “got emotional” when he saw Schlein talking to Senator-elect Pedro Espada Jr., pointed his finger at the attorney and said: “You better watch yourself in Puerto Rico.”

Rivera, speaking in a raised voice in both English and Spanish, also reportedly called Schlein a “rat.” (more…)

A Plea for Help Leads to Relief From Overcharges

TalkBXAdmin — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:46:49 +0000

Mamadou Diallo with his two-year-old son, Ibrahim, in their Bronx apartment. The family was put in financial peril because of thousands of dollars in erroneous utility bills.

When that first unexpectedly high Consolidated Edison bill — with a balance in the hundreds of dollars instead of the usual $70 — landed in Mamadou Diallo mailbox in the Bronx last year, he simply paid it.

This week, experts from the Children’s Aid Society and the Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New York will be answering selected questions about foreclosure and the housing crisis.

The Diallo Family

Nafissatou Kante with two of her children, Ibrahim, left, and Issagha.

Moussa, and Madany, 10, reading ion their bedroom

Then came the whopping bill from Cablevision, and mysterious demands from phone companies. And the Con Ed balance continued to grow, from $404 one month to $634 the next.

All he could think, he said, was that “something is wrong; someone is trying to steal my electricity.” (more…)

Former Yanks help lay dirt in Stadium

TalkBXAdmin — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:37:38 +0000

Crew from ‘98 teams up with area kids in symbolic ceremony

NEW YORK — Paul O’Neill strode down a flight of concourse stairs at the new Yankee Stadium on Saturday, set his feet on the warning track — a rough, dirt expanse, still studded with rocks and a few small puddles — and took an exhaustive look around.

“Look at this joint, huh?” he said.

Out before him lay a baseball field, albeit an incomplete one, properly proportioned to match the dimensions of the old Yankee Stadium. Sod, with seams still showing, filled much of the area, and a large blue sign shouted the words “YANKEE STADIUM” from above center field. Waves of dark blue seats down the left-field line dumped into a still-unfinished section behind home plate, where metal supports hinted at where more seats are still to come.

And on the mound, roughly 60 area children helped cram some dirt from the old Yankee Stadium into the new one. (more…)

Bronx 911 call center on hold after cost hits $957M

TalkBXAdmin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:14:38 +0000

A proposed 911 call center that would have put a 37-story building in a Bronx flood plain is going back to the drawing board after the cost shot up to almost $1 billion.

The city had for two years estimated the cost of the 400,000-square-foot building at $670 million, but that jumped to $957 million when a proposed contract with Tishman Technologies was published last month.

“We are scaling back the project in order to maintain the essential elements, but at a lower cost,” said Matthew Monahan, spokesman for the Department of Design and Construction. “The early projected numbers were at another time in the city’s economic history.”

The NYPD says the center is a critical relief valve for the city’s 1 million 911 calls each month, which are all routed to MetroTech Center in Brooklyn.

The Bronx center would take half those calls when finished, but could handle all the calls in an emergency - and would be built to withstand an earthquake, a hurricane, a flood or a terrorist bomb.

Design documents say 750 people would work at the 911 center, requiring a 500-car garage. The city had hoped to finish the building by the end of next year.

Neighbors in Morris Park hated the idea of a 363-foot tower on a 9-acre office park site, as well as all those cars coursing through neighborhood streets, said City Councilman James Vacca (D-Bronx), who represents the area. (more…)

Terkel’s Last Spotlight Didn’t Bathe the Bronx

TalkBXAdmin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:06:31 +0000

The area around Bathgate Avenue and 174th Street is an industrial park, a contradictory term for a place that has more concrete-covered factory floors than grassy fields. Yet the term is quite fitting, actually, in another way: This ordinary corner of Bronx blue-collar life was once home to Studs Terkel, who earned fame by writing about people who were utterly devoid of it.

Mr. Terkel, who died last week in his adopted home, Chicago, was born in the Bronx in 1912 and, according to the 1920 census, lived with his family at 1721 Bathgate Avenue, just south of 174th. He did not mention Bathgate in his last memoir, referring only to Clinton Avenue, a few blocks to the east, in a few pages, before shifting his memories to Chicago.

He once said the best interview question was the gentlest: And then what happened? (more…)

Regina Spektor Returns To The Bronx

TalkBXAdmin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:56:11 +0000

Regina Spektor

Just the Music

WFUV, November 6, 2008 - Regina Spektor first attracted my attention back in 2006, with her hit “Fidelity.” I, along with many others, immediately fell in love with that wonderfully infectious, quirky song. Seeing her live broke the spell of loving just the one song, and I easily developed a tremendous appreciation for her music.

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