Mulchfest 2009

This Saturday and Sunday (January 10th and 11th) Bronxites can take their Christmas trees and holiday wreaths to a number of parks around the borough to be recycled into mulch that will nourish plantings across the city! Lights, ornaments, garland, and ribbon should be removed before bringing items to a Mulchfest site. If you bring bags, you can take home free mulch from Bissell Gardens, Brook Park, River Park, and Van Cortlandt Park. Full a full listing of the 31 Bronx parks participating in Mulchfest (including Williamsbridge Oval Park) visit the Parks Department’s website.

Happy Earth Day!

Hope everyone biked or took mass transit to work today. If not, at least read this great article by the Times' David Gonzalez about a unique recycling program in the Bronx.

Bronx News Roundup Oct. 24

The case against two cops from the 44th Precinct, who allegedly beat a man outside a Yonkers bar in September, could be falling apart after the injured man failed to pick them out in a police line-up, says the Post. More on the attack here.

Mayor Bloomberg wants to make each and every borough responsible for handling its own trash, but his plans took a setback yesterday when Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver stopped a key vote. It's now looking unlikely that a recycling transfer plant will be built in Manhattan's Meatpacking District, at least in the foreseeable future. That's bad news for the Bronx. As Assemblyman Ruben Diaz told the Times, "There’s still going to be thousands of trucks and tons of garbage coming into the Bronx that isn’t from the Bronx."

In yesterday's Daily News, there was more on the alleged drug deal inside Our Lady of Refuge Church in North Fordham. CBS also picked up the story. Also in the Daily News was this story about community opposition to affordable housing, and a profile of Mount Hope Housing Company by former Norwood News intern, Heather Appel. Mount Hope celebrates its 21st anniversary at a gala this evening in the northeast Bronx.

We missed this at the time, but here’s a Bronx Times’ article on University Woods, a four-acre wood in University Heights that’s routinely named "the city’s worst park." The story follows on from Greg Fuchs’ opinion piece in the August/September edition of the Mount Hope Monitor. For more about the park check out Friends of the Woods.

Ok, so this has nothing to do with the Bronx, but readers may be interested to hear that the Guardian, Britain's left-leaning broadsheet, has launched a new Web site called Guardian America. It's an attempt to pick up more American readers, and, no doubt, more advertising revenue, too.