Two Saturdays ago, members of Sistas and Brothas United (SBU) held a rally in Poe Park and then marched in unison to the steps of the vacant and contaminated old Fordham Library on Bainbridge Avenue.

They want the building turned over to the community and turned into a hub for social services.

If this appears to be a misprint, it’s because it was the third rally there in the past few months (two by SBU, one by New Life Outreach International Church). Both groups maintain that they both want the same thing – to keep pressure on the city so they won’t be able to sell the property to developers.

All three of the rallies have been attended by Bronx father-son political duo Jose (an assemblyman) and Joel (a councilman) Rivera. Both have lent their vocal support to the project.

SBU organizers for the event said they wanted to use this latest rally to engage more youth and gather their support for the library campaign, which could take a year or more.

The building is controlled by the New York Public Library, which must clean up the contamination before it can do anything with the property. The Library says it is now bidding out the clean-up job. Once that is completed, then the Library says it will hand the property over to a city agency, which will control what happens to it.