Adolfo Watch (cont'd): The Revenge of Community Board 4

Former Community Board 4 member Lukas Herbert and other Bronxites are waging a letter-writing campaign to the Obama transition team and Gov. Paterson opposing the possible appointment of Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion to be HUD secretary or U.S. senator.

Herbert and the other members of Board 4, who bucked Carrion and voted against the city's and Yankees' plan for a new stadium, were dismissed by the B.P.

Patrick Arden from Metro NY has the story here.

We're trying to get a comment on all this from Carrion's office but nothing yet.

News Roundup for June 19

State Senator Jose M. Serrano posted on the Room Eight blog to urge his colleagues to pass the The Climate Change Solutions Act and Solutions Fund, bills that would increase investments in energy-efficiency programs and clean energy development.

Bob Kapstatter at the Daily News (article not online yet) reports that Adolfo Carrion did not reappoint four members of Community Board 4 who opposed the Yankee Stadium plan, a repeat of his actions last summer, when he got rid of three dissenters and demoted the chair of CB4. We discussed this controversy in a post a couple months back.

A Daily News editorial praises the decision by the Council and Mayor to increase library funding so neighborhood branches can stay open six days a week. It remains to be seen if the funds will provide for alternatives in Highbridge, where the local library is closed for two years for renovations.

Yesterday's New York Post feature on people working the night shift profiles an overnight guard at Woodlawn Cemetery, as well as men enrolled at Hostos and BCC, on top of multiple jobs.

Macombs Track Still Not Replaced

Metro NY reporter Patrick Arden has made a mini-career of chronicling the politics and community realities of the Yankee stadium project.
His latest installment documents the state of affairs at Community Board 4, which appears to have done very little work since last spring, when Borough President Carrion removed the board's chair after he failed to marshal enough votes to support the stadium plan.
Arden's article also points out that the replacement track the community was promised in return the removal of one in Macombs Dam Park, which is now ground zero for stadium construction, still has not been delivered.