Is beep hopeful Joel Rivera aiming for foot on tenants’ bill?
Has City Council Majority Leader and Bronx BP wannabe Joel Rivera shot himself in the political foot on this one - or even blown it off - by cosponsoring a landlord-backed bill that has tenant groups howling?
While the rest of the Bronx delegation backs Speaker Christine Quinn’s competing bill, tenant advocates charge West Bronx Councilwoman Maria Baez’s bill would muzzle tenants’ rights to complain of harassment while landlords could sue tenants who do complain.
A top Rivera adviser told us Baez’s bill mainly shifts initial complaints from logjammed housing courts to the Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
“It’s not an anti-tenant bill,” argued Rivera’s guy.
We shall see …
One lucky cop
Detective Dan Rivera is the luckiest sonuva-you-know-what in the NYPD.
The Detectives’ Endowment Association’s Bronx delegate wound up with only a graze wound - dead center on his forehead - in a recent gun battle over on Webster Ave.
He was among those honored last week at the Elks annual Police Night at Frankie & Johnny’s Pine Restaurant.
Deputy Chief Terry Monahan, No.2 honcho over “the minions” at Patrol Borough Bronx - and looking more like boss Tom Purtell with that freshly shaved chrome dome - was also honored, along with Lt. Tom Sullivan of the Lieutenants Benevolent Association, Sgt. Ray Brickley of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, Police Officer Mike Morgillo of the PBA and Lt. Cosmo Costa of the New Rochelle PD.
And Danny, thanks (we think) for sharing with us about your “reward” after the shootout …
Eco boss denies Council bid
Majora Carter, who’s built a nationwide eco-rep as head of Sustainable South Bronx over in Hunts Point, denies, denies, denies an item in last week’s Crain’s Insider column that she’s eying Maria del Carmen Arroyo’s City Council seat.
“I’m having too much fun where I am,” sayeth Majora.
Celebrating the Fat Man
That was some 40th-anniversary bash for the Hunts Point Multi-Service Center at Marina del Rey last week, organized by alumnus and Community Board 1 Chair Georgie Rodriguez.
Though founder Ramon (The Fat Man) Velez took a heavy pounding from Mayor Koch as “a poverty pimp” during the War on Poverty years, the center’s still thriving, while a buncha folks affiliated with it have gone on to elective office.
That includes Rep. Jose Serrano; former Bronx BP Freddy Ferrer; former State Sen. Olga Mendez; Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo; former Assemblyman and current County (and soon-to-be City?) Clerk Hector Diaz and former Assemblyman and Bronx Democratic Boss Roberto Ramirez.
Ramon Jr. told us his dad, now in a local nursing home with Alzheimer’s, “looks well. He’s eating and he’s healthy.”
‘Blue Blood’ goes downtown
You can take Ed Conlon out of the Bronx - to hang out in Manhattan with the literary/showbiz/media crowd - but only after the detective has finished his shift at the gritty 44th Precinct in Highbridge.
The author of the autobiographical, behind-the-badge Times best-seller “Blue Blood” has just seen a new TV pilot based on his book completed and has handed in the first draft of his second book, a novel about - what else? - cops.
Kevin behind the bar at Elaine’s confirms Eddie and the squadmates he drags downtown are regulars there, and we’re told Ed dines with downtown pals over at the next-to-impossible-to-get-into Rao’s in East Harlem.
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