Two Sundays ago, a group of South Bronx activists braved the oppressive afternoon heat to re-energize a campaign to hold the Yankees baseball club accountable for promises they made to the community for the right to build a new $1.5 billion stadium on public parkland.

In exchange for taking its parkland, soaking up taxpayer dollars (in the form of subsidies and tax breaks) and bringing more traffic congestion and parking woes to the area, the Yankees (and the city which backed the project) promised to provide local jobs, quickly restore parkland, and give back money to community groups and programs on an annual basis.

But the local jobs didn’t materialize. Replacement parks haven’t been built, mostly because the old stadium (where the new parks are to be built) is still standing and collecting moss. And the money, which is being dispersed through a specifically-created nonprofit fund, has been slow in getting back into the community, not to mention racked by controversy and possible corruption.

“All we’re asking is that they be good neighbors,” said Ramon Jimenez, one of the organizers of the protest who has helped create a shorthand friendly group called 4DSBxCoalition (For the South Bronx Coalition). “They promised everything. They have given us nothing.”

Jimenez is a Harvard-educated lawyer with offices in the South Bronx. “We want to revitalize this whole [Yankee Stadium and the lack of community benefits] issue,” Jimenez said, sweating in his suit underneath the 4-train line at 161st Street and River Avenue, along with about 30 equally sweat-soaked supporters.

Specifically, Jimenez and the Coalition, which held a similar protest at the new stadium in early June, want: the old stadium torn down by the end of the year; one representative of their organization on the advisory board that distributes the $800,000 in community funds; the replacement parks to be built safe and green (no artifical turf, they say); and for the community to share in the profits of memorabilia sold from the old stadium.

Hector Soto, another lawyer who helped organize the protest, said, “We’re trying to re-energize a campaign that was started by the community before the stadium was even built. The issues were never addressed . . . the community has not been compensated at all.”