Hi, I am Cassandra Grace, Associate Director of Piragramac Cultural Arts Association Inc. We are located in the Bronx at 3744 White Plains Rd @ 218th Street.
Piragramac will be presenting our 4th Annual Piragramac’s Nutcracker Suite Our Way, Saturday December 5, 2009 at 6pm at Charles R. Drew I.S.219, 3630 Third Avenue @ 169th Street.
This is a fundraising event to support the school and scholarships for children in need. Nutcracker Suite, Our Way is a take off of the traditional Nutcracker Suite with a cultural twist that embraces our cultural while appreciating the the classics of Tchaikovsky.
We have Tappin’ Toy Soldiers, a Rat Queen and a Blueberry Fairy. It is presented by the youth of the Piragramac Dance School.
Piragramac invites children and adults of ages from all boroughs to participate in the Nutcracker Suite at no cost. We are reaching out to groups, organizations and senior members of our community to come out and support our fundraising efforts.
Ticket prices are $15. Groups of 10 or more $12.50. Senior groups of 10 or more only $7.50.
The new store is located in the ‘Hub’ at 416 Westchester Avenue, between Third Avenue and Boone Avenue.
The company said that the store incorporates a new interactive retail design, inviting consumers to experience wireless voice, data, music and video services in a full-service environment.
The store also features over 3300 square-feet of retail, technical support and customer service space along with interactive product and service demos available throughout the store.
It also has integrated systems and operational enhancements, designed to streamline the sales process and increase customer satisfaction and a check-in kiosk inviting customers to sign in on arrival and stay informed via monitors that track their place in the queue for service. Read more..
The red lines show southbound routes through the South Bronx via the “free” Third Ave. Bridge and the tolled Triborough. The blue line charts the toll-free northbound route from the FDR across the Willis Avenue Bridge.
All the gnashing of teeth over East River bridge tolls has for the most part drowned out discussion of the Ravitch Commission’s proposal to charge motorists for Harlem River crossings as well. Though the tolls would be substantially lower — matching the (currently) $2 transit base fare — it’s still too much for two officials from the Bronx and Upper Manhattan.
From Thursday’s Daily News [1], reporting on Richard Ravitch’s testimony to state Assembly members: Read more..
Almost five years ago, Transcon International Inc. leased space in a nearly empty former manufacturing building in the Port Morris section of the South Bronx.
The needle trade businesses had for years been leaving the neighborhood, which was a symbol of urban blight in the 1970s and 1980s, and the building, on Rose Feiss Boulevard just east of Bruckner Boulevard, had at one time been scheduled for demolition by New York City.
Now, Transcon, a warehouse and shipping company, occupies four of the building’s six floors — the other tenant is a military uniform manufacturer — and its executives could not be happier with this neighborhood, which seems to have hit its stride.
“This is a phenomenal little peninsula of extraordinary abilities,” said Michael Blodget, the chief executive of Transcon, referring to an area that stretches roughly from 149th Street south to the Harlem and East Rivers and the borough’s southern border.
Covering about 40 square blocks and encompassing Mott Haven, Port Morris, named after a port created along the East River by Gouverneur Morris, one of the writers of the Constitution, is one of the few industrial areas of the city that are flourishing. Read more..
The Hub — the commercial strip around Third Avenue and 149th Street — is among the parts of the South Bronx that some boosters are trying to rebrand as the “Downtown Bronx.” (Photos: David Gonzalez/The New York Times) City and Bronx officials this week trumpeted a major pedestrians and traffic redesign of the Hub, the commercial strip around Third Avenue and East 149th Street. Perhaps it will be more successful than a previous makeover, which tried to rebrand the area as the “Downtown Bronx.”
Fluttering above the heads of officials — and sometimes above the consciousness of local residents — were banners affixed several years ago to lampposts promoting the “Downtown Bronx Shopping District.” Never mind that the term is nothing less than a geographical impossibility to anyone who actually grew up in the Bronx, where “downtown” pretty much meant any place below 125th Street in Manhattan.
This attempt at rebranding stumps many people who walk past those banners daily (as they go to take the subway downtown, of course). Some thought it meant you could catch Manhattan-bound buses. Others said Downtown Bronx was all the way south, up against the river in Port Morris. Few knew they were smack dab in the thick of it.
Banners in the Hub commercial district in the South Bronx calls the area the “Downtown Bronx.”
Jonathan Sanchez, a security guard on his way to work, had no clue where it was. “This is the South Bronx right here,” he said, oblivious to the banner on a nearby lamppost. “Downtown is more like, Manhattan. The South Bronx is, you know, this area. It seems very good. It’s not like it used to be.” Read more..
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