BY THOMAS X. CASEY
The East Bronx History
Forum and the Huntington
Free Library are pleased to announce
The East Bronx History
Forum will hold its 151th
meeting on Wednesday, January20th
at 8:00 PM with a
ZOOM presentation by Forum
member Mike Gupta, “The
New York Westchester & Boston
Railroad”.
100 years ago, the last elevated
subway stations built
in The Bronx reached their
last stops. Included are W.
242nd Street at Van Cortlandt
Park, Woodlawn on the Jerome
Avenue line and E. 241st Street
on The Third Ave El & White
Plains Line. The population
in the Bronx has expanded
greatly since 1920 and many
plans to extend the lines came
and went. In the 1920’s, a dream
of a second ave underground to
the Bronx and Throggsneck
disappeared. The underground
IND Concourse Line made it to
205th Street.
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Mike Gupta is a Forum
member and past lecturer of
the Third Ave El and has a
passion for all things “on the
rails”. Mike Gupta is an IT
Professional and Forum Webmaster
dedicated to keeping
the amazing history of the
Bronx alive, using any free
time that his 3 years old daughter
Savanna allows. He has researched
the NY, Westchester
& Boston Railroad, that was
one of the most expensive rail
lines and stations to be built
in the country. The Italian
villa style Administration
Building is landmarked and
was beautifully renovated in
2013. It is also an entrance to
the 180th street station on the
Dyre Avenue Line, that was
purchased due to the NYW&B’s
bankruptcy.
This Presentation will
cover the “Lost Stations” that
Mike has discovered and explored
and is limited to the
fi rst 100 members and friends
that log onto our Zoom meeting.
The East Bronx History
Forum posts the login details
on our web page at BronxNYC.
com. Remember, we will meet
on-line, 8:00 pm, Wednesday
January 20th.
CIVIC CENTER
East Bronx
History Forum
BY FRANK VERNUCCIO
Historians may take a considerable
amount of time in
granting a designation to a
particular period of time, a nomenclature
such as “The Victorian
Era,” or “The Enlightenment.”
That lag may be considerably
shortened regarding
the current era. Indeed, the
phrase can easily be gleaned
when even casually examining
the contemporary environment.
We are living in the
“Era of No Consequences.”
Last month, the second
Stimulus Bill was again debated,
months after it was due.
The Speaker of the House,
Nancy Pelosi, has essentially
stated that she held up the
measure, which is supposed
to provide badly needed funding
for people and small businesses
devastated by the ongoing
pandemic, because she
didn’t want it to pass until after
the election, an act of partisanship
that placed politics
above the good of the nation.
A friendly media has not attacked
her for this, nor has she
suffered any other penalty.
During 2020, much of the
world has been devastated as
a result of COVID-19, spread
through China’s negligence
or maliciousness. There has
been little discussion of reprisals
in response to this.
During the U.S. Presidential
election, balloting wrongdoings
occurred. The courts
have been unwilling to even
examine the problem in detail.
The benefi ciary of those
untoward acts, Joe Biden, has
been further sullied by his
family’s enrichment by Beijing,
America’s chief adversary.
It appears that he will endure
no detriment from that.
For almost the entire length
of the Trump presidency, the
nation was torn asunder and
an impeachment took place,
all based on false charges
knowingly brought forth by
unscrupulous individuals. A
wholly false “dossier” accused
Trump of conspiring with
Russians. Lies and omissions
were given to the FISA Court.
The nation was plunged into
several years of an expensive
and divisive investigation
on the wholly groundless
charges. Figures such as Rep.
Adam Schiff (D-Ca.) swore to
the nation that they had evidence
which, it turned out,
never existed. No one has ever
been punished for the lies,
perjury, and other misdeeds
related to this. Again, no judicial
reprisal was taken.
During that same period of
time, riots on a scale not seen
for half a century took place.
Not only have the perpetrators
not been punished, but a
sympathetic media portrayed
the burning, looting, and assaults
as “peaceful protests.”
On state-funded campuses
across the nation, oppression
of non-leftist students takes
place. Despite this misappropriation
of taxpayer dollars,
no plan exists to remedy the
problem.
This particular epoch began
with the election of Barack
Obama. His presidency
saw the machinery of the federal
government diverted to
partisan political endeavors.
Groups opposing his views
were hit hard and unlawfully
by the Internal Revenue Service
and the Department of
Justice. Beginning in March
2010, not-for-profi t groups that
disagreed with the Obama
White House were placed on
special lists for political reprisal.
Once these discriminatory
and illegal acts were
exposed, precisely nothing of
consequence happened. Eventually,
some offi cials were allowed
to resign and there was
a fi nancial settlement. But the
ultimate government offi cials
who should have borne responsibility
paid no political
price.
During this same time period,
Hillary Clinton committed
a panoply of apparent
crimes and engaged in astounding
coverups. She openly
lied about the origins of the attack
on the American facility
in Benghazi. She approved the
sale of the basic ingredient of
nuclear weapons to the Russians.
When questions were
asked about her activities, she
destroyed the evidence. These
misdeeds did nothing to harm
her career. Indeed, she secured
the Democratic nomination
for President in 2016.
When wrongdoing by people
of infl uence and power are
not punished, society is deeply
diminished and endangered.
This is the true legacy of the
“Era of No Consequences.”
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