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Schumer, Ampry-Samuel Lead
Charge for NYCHA Fixes
Torres and environmental groups push Biden Admin to
invest in capping the Cross BX
Congressman Torres advocates for capping the Cross
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Bronx
Endorsements
BY ALEX MITCHELL
Eric Adams Endorsed by Bronx Borough
President Ruben Diaz, Jr.
Saying “it is time for the Bronx, Latinos,
and all New Yorkers to unite behind Eric
Adams to be our next mayor,” Bronx Borough
President Ruben Diaz, Jr. endorsed the
Brooklyn Borough President and mayoral
hopeful on Monday.
“New York needs a mayor with the life
experience of everyday New Yorkers to lead
us out of this pandemic and make our city a
stronger, fairer place than it was before —
and I have no doubt that person is Eric Adams,”
Diaz said.
Dianne Morales Endorsed by Sunrise
Movement
Mayoral candidate Dianne Morales was
endorsed by the Sunrise Movement.
The Sunrise movement is a national
grassroot organization that mobilizes to stop
climate change. Morales’ campaign said that
having their endorsement was a stamp of approval
on Morales’ climate policy.
“Having the endorsement of their NYC
hub means Dianne’s climate policy is the real
deal,” her campaign said. “As mayor, Dianne
will be committed to co-creating a transformative
climate governance that addresses
injustices in our natural and social environments
— especially those of our poor, immigrant,
and Black and Brown communities.”
Coalition of 200 Women Endorse McGuire
for Mayor
Ray McGuire received the endorsement of
more than 200 women who represent a broad
spectrum of interests, occupations, and communities,
in his bid to be mayor of New York
City.
The women, who live and/or have businesses
in New York City, announced their
support for McGuire in a letter.
“Now, more than ever, it’s time for us to
unite and safeguard the future of our beloved
city. By supporting Ray McGuire for mayor,
we have an opportunity to actively participate
in the city’s comeback with a leader
whose vision in unifying, clear, and believable,”
the letter read.
The women who signed on to support
McGuire include: Grammy award-winning
singer Mary J. Blige; American Ballet Theatre
dancer Misty Copeland; Fashion designer
Donna Karan; WNBA legend Kym Hampton;
Philanthropist Laurie Tisch; Mother of Eric
Garner and Member of Mothers of the Movement
Gwen Carr and many more.
BRONX TIMES REPORTER, A 14 PR. 30-MAY 6, 2021
BTR
BY ARIAMA C. LONG
New York City Housing Authority
(NYCHA) developments are getting
a badly needed $80 billion investment
and improvements announced
by U.S. Senate Majority Leader
Chuck Schumer last week. But improvements
are extending past the
buildings and reaching into the communities
for input as well with a
new Resident Roundtable, said NYCHA.
Schumer, who’s been working doggedly
on this with housing advocates
and City Councilmember Alicka
Ampry-Samuel (D-Brooklyn), said
through federal public housing funds
via the just-proposed American Jobs
Plan, wrongs can be righted after decades
of disinvestment, bad management
and federal neglect of NYCHA
and all its mostly low-income and
struggling residents.
Schumer explained that the initial
plan was a $40 billion investment
in public housing capital needs from
the Biden Administration, but with
a solid push, was doubled to address
“NYCHA’s repair backlog, years of
can-kicking, Republican-led federal
disinvestment and delays that have
left tenants frustrated.”
“For far too long, our public housing
infrastructure needs have been
left unaddressed, left to get worse,
and have brought serious harm to
hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers,”
said Schumer. “Lead in the bodies
of our children. Toxic mold in
the lungs of our friends and neighbors.
Leaky roofs. Dilapidated playgrounds.
Non-working elevators.
Unsafe environments. Polluting and
expensive boilers and heating systems.
The maddening list goes on and
on.”
“However you want to put it: public
housing residents, and NYCHA
residents in particular, are in need of
some real help, and this, right now, is
a now-or-never moment. We must repair,
upgrade and transform our public
housing so it is both livable and
sustainable,” added Schumer.
NYCHA houses about 380,299 authorized
residents in over 177,611
apartments within 335 housing developments,
and serves hundreds of
thousands more through programs
like Section 9, Permanent Affordability
Commitment Together (PACT)/
Rental Assistance Demonstration
(RAD), and Section 8’s Leased Housing
Program. This money will aim to
speedily address all corrective work
orders, inspections of apartments or
other needed areas, routine maintenance
of elevators and faulty heating,
and severe violations, like rodents or
mold in developments across the fi ve
boroughs.
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, speaking,
and City Councilwoman Alicka Ampry-
Samuel meet with NYCHA residents to
discuss new federal funding to make
much-needed repairs and improvement
to the public housing stock.
Contributed photo
BY JASON COHEN
The Cross Bronx
Expressway cuts right
through the heart of the
Bronx, causing harmful
economic and environmental
consequences for
low income families in
the surrounding neighborhoods.
Recognizing the dangers
the treacherous road
causes, Bronxites are
clamoring for change.
On April 23, Congressman
Ritchie Torres,
Assemblywoman
Karines Reyes and various
Bronx environmental
organizations made
their case for the Cross
Bronx Expressway to be
included in President
Biden’s infrastructure
package, known as the
American Jobs Plan,
which will include $20
billion in investments
to reconnect neighborhoods
torn apart by “urban
renewal.”
“The diesel trucks
that often congest the
Cross Bronx Expressway
have been a death
sentence for the people of
the South Bronx, shorting
their life spans with
chronic diseases that
have grown lethal in the
age of COVID19,” Torres
said. “The Cross Bronx
Expressway is, both literally
and fi guratively,
a structure of environmental
racism whose
dismantling is long overdue.
Reimagining the
Cross Bronx Expressway
for the 21st century will
build the Bronx back –
better and greener than
ever before. The Bronx
deserves nothing less
than its fair share of the
American Jobs Plan.
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