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The city will relax alternate side parking rules in parts of the Bronx

                         Parking just got a lot simpler in the northwest Bronx

Starting Monday, the city will relax alternate side parking rules in parts of Kingsbridge, Kingsbridge Heights and Van Cortlandt Village.

The move is part of an ongoing pilot program to reduce alternate side parking from twice a week to once a week, and to lower the duration from three hours to 90 minutes in some locations.

“We’re very happy about this,” said Damian McShane, chairman of Community Board 8, which petitioned the Department of Sanitation to relax street cleaning rules.

Alternate side parking will be suspended along Van Cortlandt Park South from Broadway to Mosholu Parkway; portions of Goulden Ave., W. 197th St. and Reservoir Ave.; the north side of W. Kingsbridge Road from Reservoir Ave. to the Major Deegan; the north side of W. 225th St. from the Major Deegan to Broadway; and Broadway (not included) from W. 225th St to Van Cortlandt Park S.

The parking rules suspension will last for six to eight weeks while city crews install 1,400 new signs in the area.

These changes mark the second of two phases of the project, that will ultimately change about 3,600 alternate side parking signs in Community District 8. Read more..

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The Department of Transportation is continuing its pilot program to reduce alternate side parking regulations in the Bronx.

The regulations are going from twice a week to once a week, and from three hours down to 90 minutes in some locations.

Alternate side regulations will be suspended in parts of Kingsbridge, Kingsbridge Heights and Van Cortlandt Village starting on Monday for six to eight weeks as the signs are replaced, and then the new regulations will take effect.

Meanwhile, motorists in Riverdale, Spuyten Duyvil, Marble Hill, and Kingsbridge west of Broadway will be impacted by reduced regulations starting Monday, January 11. Signs in those ares have been going up since October.

The pilot program began last year in Park Slope, Brooklyn and was quickly expanded.

 For more information on the rules changes, call 311 or visit nyc.gov/dot.

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They’re Drawn Back, Once Again, by Stickball

 Eric Mortensen swinging for the fences at P.S. 95 at the 31st Annual Stickball Reunion and his class’s 50th reunion.

 Alan Frishman showed Sunny Dolney Moles a photograph of her that was taken on graduation day in 1958.

Yiggy showed up early, carrying the mop and broom handles he keeps in his closet back home. Barry Heyman, 63, arrived soon afterward, bearing a large black and white photograph of the eighth-grade class of 1958. David Sternthal, 63, the blurry one in the photo because he jerked when the boy next to him pinched him in the behind, brought his video camera.

Eric Mortensen, 66 — a retired teacher who carries his stickball gear in his minivan because, he explained, “You never know” — held out the hard rubber Spaldeen ball in his hand. “This stupid little ball, for a working-class neighborhood, provided us with all the entertainment we needed, until we got old enough to chase after girls,” he said.

They met Saturday morning on the blacktop of a schoolyard in the northern Bronx. They played in this yard when they were children and teenagers, and decades later, they still play in this yard, even if it is only once a year.

For 31 years, on the second Saturday in June, dozens of men and women who lived in the Van Cortlandt Village section of the Bronx in the 1940s and 1950s play stickball at their old school, P.S. 95. They called it Stickball Days at first, and this time they called it the 31st Annual Stickball Reunion.

Ed Yaker, 63, a retired math teacher who lives near the school and who everyone calls Yiggy, started the tradition in 1977. That first year, about 10 or 12 people came, said Mr. Yaker, an easygoing sort whose business card lists some of his activities as “beach” and “golf.” After a while, more than 100 attended annually, and they started making commemorative T-shirts and handing out an award called the Novi, in honor of a classmate who died years ago, Alan Novikoff.

Mr. Yaker has since been inducted into the city’s Stickball Hall of Fame, affiliated with the Museum of the City of New York.

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