From the editor: a dysfunctional community board
Again and again, the too-long-entrenched leaders of Community Board 1 show they disrespect the people they are supposed to serve.
Morning Glory Community Garden
Tempers flare at Community Board 1
A heated war of words erupted at Community Board 1′s February meeting as protesters shouted down a developer and a city housing official’s efforts to explain the city’s plans to construct Crossroads Plaza.
The board voted to approve the city’s request for a zoning change that would allow the three-building complex to be built at the corner of 149th Street and Southern Boulevard, but had to do so over the catcalls, jeers and sometimes profane objections of some 30 protesters who had cleared the lot of debris and turned it into the Morning Glory Garden.
City plans tall buildings on former garden site
The city has decided to build a massive, three-building complex at the intersection of Southern Boulevard and Union Avenue and E. 149th St., where the eviction of the Morning Glory community garden in November led to the arrest of four protesters and a journalist.
Police Council hears protest of Occupy arrests
Heated meeting dissolves in shouting Outraged by the arrest of five people at their general
Cops break up Occupy the Bronx rally
Police arrested five people at the Occupy the Bronx general assembly in Mott Haven Saturday, preempting the organization’s plans to hold a rally and “festival” in a community garden fenced-off by the city in mid-November. It was the first time police had moved on the borough’s arm of Occupy Wall Street since it began holding weekly meeings in October.
Gardeners occupy community board
Activists invaded Community Board 1’s office on Monday, using Occupy Wall Street tactics to protest