• Westchester Square A Clean Start for Westchester Sq.

  Joe Regina was walking through Westchester Square, touting the new merchants association and a much-needed city program to clean up the streets, when a passing teen dropped a soda can on the sidewalk.

  Published by NYCity News Service on July 28, 2008.

• Quick Care Frame Repair A Clean Start for Westchester Sq.

  As secretary-treasurer of the new Westchester Square Merchants’ Association, Regina, who works at Quick Care Frame Repair, well knows the challenges facing the once-thriving northeast Bronx shopping district. But he and other local businesspeople are banking on the neighborhood’s resurgence, placing their hopes in their organization - and a new city program called Clean Streets.

  Published by NYCity News Service on July 28, 2008.

• Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn Bloggers Unite – Off-Line

  When Petra Symister moved from Chelsea to Bedford-Stuyvesant she lost her sense of community - but blogging cured her loneliness.

  Published by NYCity News Service on May 20, 2008.

• Chelsea Brooklyn Bloggers Unite – Off-Line

  When Petra Symister moved from Chelsea to Bedford-Stuyvesant she lost her sense of community - but blogging cured her loneliness.

  Published by NYCity News Service on May 20, 2008.

• Jacobi Medical Center HIV ‘Kiosks’ Spur AIDS Awareness

  Doctors at Jacobi Medical Center want to get the word out about a program they’ve created that allows people to be tested for HIV - quickly and confidentially - while getting important lessons on AIDS prevention.

  Published by NYCity News Service on May 19, 2008.

• Harlem A Zimbabwean Voice in Harlem

  The only difference: Ngwenya was live and on air, broadcasting from a tiny room on the second floor of the Salvation Army Church in Harlem.

  Published by NYCity News Service on May 14, 2008.

• St. Anthony's Head Start Baby Buggy Delivers Help For Kids

  HELPING HAND: Baby Buggy is working with St. Anthony's Head Start to help 174 Bronx families.

  Published by NYCity News Service on April 30, 2008.

• 347 W. 29th St Fight To Save Anti-Slavery Site

  Abigail Gibbons, a 19th Century abolitionist, lived at 347 W. 29th St., which may have been a stop on the Underground Railroad. Local residents are pushing to landmark the building.

  Published by NYCity News Service on April 18, 2008.

• Elmhurst-Jackson Heights Senior Center (75 Broadway) A Prescription For Confusion

  The federal government touts the program as an effective way to offer senior citizens choice and flexibility. But many seniors, including those at the Elmhurst-Jackson Heights Senior Center, say that Part D has left them confused and frustrated.

  Published by NYCity News Service on April 18, 2008.

• Chelsea It’s a Dog’s (High) Life in Chelsea

  Pampered pooches seem to be recession-proof—at least in Chelsea.

  Published by NYCity News Service on April 1, 2008.

• Dyker Heights School Budget Cuts Slice Deep

  “No one likes budget cuts,” said Principal Janice Geary of Junior High School 259 in Dyker Heights. “But I really believe if you’re prudent and you’re careful, 1.75% truthfully – and I don’t want to belittle my colleagues – isn’t that hard to deal with.”

  Published by NYCity News Service on March 18, 2008.

• 116th street ‘Green Carts’ Produce Fresh Views

  “We have to pay utilities, we have to pay employees and the vendors don’t. It’s not fair… The mayor, what is he thinking?” asked Park, an employee at Lee’s Fruits Market on 116th and Third Avenue in East Harlem. “If my boss starts making less money because of this law some people will lose their jobs. What are they going to do?”

  Published by NYCity News Service on February 29, 2008.

• Webster Avenue Hotel to Check in Amid Concerns

  Despite ongoing community concerns, work will begin in February on a 6-story, 48-room Comfort Inn on Webster Avenue in Norwood, as the McSam Hotel Group moves ahead after struggling for more than a year to convince neighbors that the project will be good for the area.

  Published by NYCity News Service on February 11, 2008.

• Norwood Hotel to Check in Amid Concerns

  Despite ongoing community concerns, work will begin in February on a 6-story, 48-room Comfort Inn on Webster Avenue in Norwood, as the McSam Hotel Group moves ahead after struggling for more than a year to convince neighbors that the project will be good for the area.

  Published by NYCity News Service on February 11, 2008.

• 699 92nd St Hospital Spurs Labor Pains

  Victory Memorial Hospital, which is set to close, shut its labor and delivery unit 10 days earlier than expected, leaving moms-to-be in the lurch. Dozens of women scheduled to give birth at Victory Memorial Hospital this holiday season had to find alternate sources of care weeks, even days, before giving birth.

  Published by NYCity News Service on January 8, 2008.

• Property at Brigham Street Sheepshead Bay’s Field of Dreams

  LOT OF HOPE: Sheepshead Bay residents want to turn this barren property at Brigham Street into a park. Efforts to turn the embattled Brigham Street lot in Sheepshead Bay into a green space began to bear fruit as the district’s first community-born park project got a crucial boost.

  Published by NYCity News Service on December 14, 2007.

• John Jay College of Criminal Justice (557 W 57th St) Law and Order – and Politics

  The Center on Media, Crime & Justice and CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice hosted the Third Annual Harry F. Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America Dec. 3-4. This year’s theme, “Crime, Justice and Politics: Looking Ahead To 2008,” brought together politicians, educators, journalists and law enforcement officials to discuss crime and crime statistics – and how they’ll play a part in the upcoming presidential elections.

  Published by NYCity News Service on December 5, 2007.

• McKenna's Pub - new (250 W. 14th St) Tavern Dives Across The Street

  McKenna’s Pub was displaced from 245 W. 14th St. — which is slated for demolition — but its owner, Brian McKenna, didn’t have to look far for a new location. The bar is set to occupy a new space in 250 W. 14th St. across the street. And his neighbors, who in the past have complained about the bar’s noise and disorder, can’t be pleased.

  Published by NYCity News Service on November 30, 2007.

• 108 Bedford Ave New Owner Vows To Raise The Bar

  Geoffrey Weber plans to turn Williamsburg's controversial Triple Crown bar into a less noisy nightspot called the Brooklyn Café.

  Published by NYCity News Service on November 30, 2007.

• Oak Point Rail Yard Allies Split Over Rail Yard Plan

  Congressman Jose Serrano has denounced Sustainable South Bronx’s plan to turn the Oak Point Rail yard into a plant for remanufacturing discarded construction material.

  Published by NYCity News Service on November 30, 2007.

• McKenna's Pub - old (245 W. 14th St) Tavern Dives Across The Street

  McKenna’s Pub was displaced from 245 W. 14th St. — which is slated for demolition — but its owner, Brian McKenna, didn’t have to look far for a new location.

  Published by NYCity News Service on November 30, 2007.

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