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Nonstop Reading at PS 94
At PS 94, some students read a lot, some students read more, and some students like 2nd graders Anamica Saha, Sanjidah Abdullah, Nazeath Emama, and Yakelin Ibarra, read pretty much all the time. The four students won PS 94’s annual reading competition by reading literally hundreds of books in just a 21?2-month period.
A New Weapon Can Protect Peace at Home
With Memorial Day fresh in our minds, we would like to take this opportunity to recognize the heroism of Dino Rossi, a veteran of the United States Air Force.
This story, however, is not about his actions on any traditional battlefield. But make no mistake, Rossi has embroiled himself in a heated and contentious battle, one with severe and life-altering consequences for its underdog stakeholders.
For the past six months or so, Rossi has led an effort on behalf of his fellow tenants at a North Fordham-area building on the Grand Concourse to fight the injustice being done there by building owner Jacob Selechnik. (See previous issue, May 15, "Tenants Stand Up to Landlord’s Bully Tactics.")
He says the stealth and serpentine Selechnik, often referred to by housing advocates as "Jake the Snake," with the help of his daughter Ellen, is all but physically forcing residents, through a variety of shameful tactics, out of Rossi’s building, 2720 Grand Concourse. For the Selechniks, it seems to come down to simple math: The more people they can scare away, the higher they can jack up the rents.
This story, however, is not about his actions on any traditional battlefield. But make no mistake, Rossi has embroiled himself in a heated and contentious battle, one with severe and life-altering consequences for its underdog stakeholders.
For the past six months or so, Rossi has led an effort on behalf of his fellow tenants at a North Fordham-area building on the Grand Concourse to fight the injustice being done there by building owner Jacob Selechnik. (See previous issue, May 15, "Tenants Stand Up to Landlord’s Bully Tactics.")
He says the stealth and serpentine Selechnik, often referred to by housing advocates as "Jake the Snake," with the help of his daughter Ellen, is all but physically forcing residents, through a variety of shameful tactics, out of Rossi’s building, 2720 Grand Concourse. For the Selechniks, it seems to come down to simple math: The more people they can scare away, the higher they can jack up the rents.
What in the World is ‘Norwood’?
I grew up on DeKalb Avenue, near Mosholu Parkway, graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School and then NYU. For me and for all my Diaspora classmates across the U.S. who really want to know, please tell me what in the world does Norwood stand for? No such geographic reference was known into the 1970s. Where did the word come from? Who coined it? It can’t be north of Woodlawn because that would be Yonkers. We referred to our neighborhood as East Riverdale. Inquiring minds want to know. Thanks. David Hubler Falls Church, VA
Puerto Rican Pride at 20
Seniors to Get Affordable Housing
Neighborhood Notes
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Tenants Stand Up to Landlord’s Bully Tactics
Lawyers for Maria Garcia’s landlord took her to Housing Court on three separate occasions to force her to pay rent she didn’t owe. In the end, a judge ruled in her favor and against her landlord, telling her not to pay any rent until she received compensation. Garcia’s case underscores what is happening to tenants at 2720 Grand Concourse, a rent-stabilized building owned by Jacob “Jake the Snake” Selechnik.