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Bus Company delays commuters endangers lives

Atlantic Bus Company Delays traffic 20 minutes each morning and afternoon for hundreds of commuters and workers. The double parking creates dangerous visibility problems that create possibilities of small vehicles crashing into large trucks that use Brush Ave. daily. 999 Brush Avenue now creates a bottleneck as the Buses pull out of the narrowed street due to employees parked cars. Commuters must catch earlier Buses to sit for 20 minutes while these buses turn out into Bruckner each morning. Something should be done to correct this dangerous situation. Is the zoning such to require the employees to park on location??? Double parking tickets should be given on Fridays at approx. 3 to 5 pm.

Posted by: Dorothea Poggi



Assemblymember Espaillat Announces Project Remain/ Nos Quedamos and Slumlords Hall of Shame Campaign

December 8, 2005

Assemblymember Adriano Espaillat Announces Project Remain/ Nos Quedamos and The Slumlords Hall of Shame Campaign

During a lively forum attended by over 500 local residents at Washington Heights’ St. Elizabeth’s Church Auditorium, Assemblymember Adriano Espaillat, announced the beginning of a bare knuckle pro-tenant housing campaign in Northern Manhattan. With over 16,000 families facing eviction proceedings on a yearly basis at landlord tenant court, many at the forum felt this problem has reached crisis proportion. This new housing initiative will include exposing slumlords and derelict landlords on a monthly basis to the greater New York City community. This effort will include the development of a website and potential media buys. Moreover the campaign’s planning committee will continue to meet and will soon present clear goals and objectives to be followed up.

The forum was attended by the following panelists: Ana Ingerson (Union Comunal), Bertha Lewis (Acorn, Fix It Now Campaign), Julio Alvarado (Audubon Partnership for Economic Development), Nellie Bailey (Harlem Tenant Council), Juan Felix (Washington Heights/ Inwood Coalition), Kenneth Rosenfeld (Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation), Mercedes Cano (Community Legal Resource Center at CUNY Law School), Edwin Vega (Legal Aid Society), Walther Delgado (Audubon Partnership), Martin Collins (Community Board 12), Tom Demott (Community Preservation Corporation), Dr. Ramona Hernandez (Dominican Studies Institute), and Carlos Vargas (Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños at Hunter College).

And co-sponsored by: Congressman Charles Rangel, NYS Senator Eric Schneiderman, NYS Assemblyman Herman Farrel, NYC Councilman Miguel Martinez, NYC Councilman Robert Jackson, Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields, Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation, Legal Aid Society, Hunter College (Puerto Rican Studies), Washington Heights/Inwood Coalition, CUNY School of Law, Community Board #12, Dominican Studies Institute, Health Plus, West Harlem Coalition, Audubon Partnership for Economic Development , Alianza Dominicana, Northern Manhattan Coalition for Economic Development, Community Premier Plus, Washington Heights and Inwood Chamber of Commerce, St. Elizabeth Church, Community Preservation Corporation, West 162nd Street Block Association, Post Ave. Block Association, St. Elizabeth Church, Union Comunal, Parent Association P.S. 173, Latinas en Acción, Yeshiva University, Russian American Cultural Center, Children Arts & Sciences, 510-514 West 184th Street Tenant Association, Dominican Women’s Development Center, RENA-COA, Congreso National Dominicano y Inwood Patrol., Dominican 2000, Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights, 164th St Tenant Association, Electronic Geographic Lab. for Inner City Community Develpoment, Centro Altagracia de Fe y Justicia and the Dominican Women Caucus, Inwood Community Service, Children Arts and Science, and Fort George Head Start Center.


If you have any suggestions or need more information please contact the Office of Assemblymember Adriano Espiallat, 72nd District at 212-544-2278.





Posted by: A Batista



Hey, State Elected Officials' District Offices Can Help You !!!




NYS Elected Officials of Our Community - Their district offices assist community residents with a wide range of issues and make referrals to community-based organizations for additional help.


Hon. Eric T. Schneiderman
NYS Senator
80 Bennet Avenue, Ground Fl.
NY, NY 10033
212-928-5578
fax: 212-928-0396
Email: Schneiderman@schneiderman.org

Hon. David A. Paterson
NYS Senator
163 W. 125 St, #932
New York, NY 10027
212-222-7315
Fax: 212-678-0001
Email: paterson@senate.state.ny.us


Hon. Herman D. Farrell, Jr.
NYS Assemblymember
2541-55 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard
New York, NY 10039
Phone: (212) 234-1430
Fax: (212) 928-4177
Email: farrelh@assemby.state.ny.us


Hon. Adriano Espaillat
NYS Assemblymember
210 Sherman Avenue, Suite A
New York, NY 10034
212-544-2278
Email: espaila@assembly.state.ny.us




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