Inquiring Photographer: Thoughts on the Expansion of Citi Bike in Bedford Park

By DAVID GREENE

This week, we asked readers their thoughts on the new Citi Bike stations that have recently popped up across the borough, and are heavily concentrated in Bedford Park. “I actually came out of the building, and it just appeared there last week. That’s when I noticed it. I’m actually looking forward to using them, and I was just saying to my friend that I think it’s a great use of the space. I do think if you’re going to use these bikes, you definitely should have all the safety gear that you should wear when you’re biking.” Monique Robinson, Bedford Park

By DAWN CLANCY, RACHEL DALLOO, MIRIAM QUIÑONES & SÍLE MOLONEY

Norwood News caught up with Bronxites at the polls on Primary Day, Tuesday, June 22, to gain some insights into their most pressing concerns, their top choice of candidates, their thoughts on ranked choice voting, and their hopes for the borough’s future. We also scanned social media to see how different candidates were passing the day. District 14 Race Emmanuel Sarpong, 51, is a security worker and we caught up with him at P.S. 306 in Morris Heights, located in City Council District 14. “In the Bronx, we’ve been left really far behind,” he said. “I travel around all

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The New York City Board of Elections released the unofficial results of the June 22 primary elections on Tuesday night, following poll closures at 9 p.m. Unofficial results on Election Night saw Oswald Feliz in the lead in the District 15 Democratic primary, with 39 percent of the vote share, Eric Dinowitz in the lead in the District 11 Democratic primary, with 41 percent of the vote share, and Pierina Sanchez in the lead in District 14 Democratic primary, with 39 percent of the vote share. In the Republican District 15 primary, Ariel Rivera Diaz led with 49 percent

By SÍLE MOLONEY

District 11 City Council candidate, Mino Lora, has been facing pressure in recent weeks to explain her alleged support of a controversial, $200 million re-zoning plan, announced in 2018, for the Northern Manhattan district of Inwood, where the candidate’s nonprofit, the People’s Theater Project (PTP) is located. Lora faced criticism from detractors from a number of different perspectives, and has addressed each of them. We will attempt to break them down one by one. Firstly, local Inwood housing activists had objected to the housing component of the plan, concerned they would eventually be “rezoned” or displaced from their

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The New York State primary elections take place on Tuesday, June 22. The New York City Board of Elections (BOE) has released a recap by party of the absentee ballot applications issued and returned to them as of June 21, 2021. We have included the information as presented by the BOE below, broken down by borough, by Bronx council district and by Bronx assembly district. In terms of the timeline for expected election results, the BOE has advised as follows: When Will Results be Reported? Unofficial election night results will be posted at the close of polls on

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The New York City Bar Association announced on June 16 that is has completed evaluations of the following candidates who are running in contested primary elections on June 22 for Civil Court. The review was conducted by the association’s committee on the judiciary. The Committee used two ratings: approved and not approved, and said candidates rated “approved” have affirmatively demonstrated qualifications necessary for the performance of the duties of the position for which they are being considered. Bronx County Civil Court, 2nd Municipal District John Rodriguez — Not Approved Angel Cruz — Not Approved Jessica Flores — Approved Verena C.

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The City Council approved legislation on Thursday, June 17, to create the NYC Mayor’s Office of Ethnic and Community Media, making it the first mayor’s office in the country dedicated to strengthening the relationship between city government and ethnic and community outlets. The legislation, known as Intro. 2313, was sponsored by Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Manhattan Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, Bronx Council Member Oswald Feliz (C.D. 15), and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. Johnson is currently running for city comptroller, and on June 19, was endorsed as second-choice candidate for the role by the Bronx Democratic Party, which had

By ADI TALWAR & SÍLE MOLONEY

District 11 City Council candidate, Mino Lora, took her campaign to Norwood for her second rally since announcing her decision to run for office last year, and was supported on the day by some of New York State’s key, progressive elected officials who view the District 11 seat as another important frontier in the race for transformational change across the State. Despite a strong challenge by Lora in the District 11 special election, held March 23, in which the People’s Theater Project founder and executive director finished second with 3,188 votes, Eric Dinowitz’s final 5,579 votes (which included transfers

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Close to half a million dollars had been paid out in taxpayer dollars to candidates in the District 15 City Council race, according to a summary by the New York City Campaign Finance Board (CFB), as of Thursday, June 17. Under the CFB’s public matching funds program, participating candidates received a total of $464,181. The summary also shows that, as of June 17, collectively, participating candidates had raised a total of $144,186 in private funds, and had spent just over a quarter of a million dollars, $251,843, collectively, on their campaigns, ahead of the June 22 primary election. As

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