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The co-owner of La Morada Mexican restaurant on Willis Avenue and her lawyer say she was unlawfully detained by undercover NYPD detectives last Friday evening after they saw her videotaping an alleged sting operation next door. Yajaira Saveedra, who has co-run the restaurant with her mother, sister, and brother since 2009, has earned a reputation […]
Read More NYPD’s arrest of activist shrouded in mysteryEmbattled trash hauler’s truck killed two in six months Environmental and labor activists hope that the surprise closing of a controversial, private trash collecting company based in Hunts Point, is a first step to reining in the city’s private trash haulers. Once Sanitation Salvage’s trucks stop rumbling through the South Bronx’s streets, they say, those […]
Read More Workers, advocates rejoice as Sanitation Salvage announces it will closeSoon after reporting a leak in the sink in her apartment at 386 E 139th St., Blonnie Rodgers, 63, said she heard an aggressive knock at her door. When she opened the door the building’s managing agent, Sam Rosen, was standing outside. “He told me, ‘You better watch whose toes you’re stepping on,’” she recalled […]
Read More Tenants fight protracted legal battle with landlordsThe Betances Houses in Mott Haven as of Friday are no longer Section 9 public housing, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced at a press conference at the complex on Monday. The 40 buildings stretching from from 136th Street to 145th Street were converted to the federal Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program, which means they will […]
Read More NYCHA no more: Betances Houses officially converted to RAD housingBy Rachel Rippetoe and Charlie May on September 25, 2018 at 9:19 am Prominent local businesswoman’s push for “self-gentrification” fuels neighborhood rift Shouting protestors drowned out the advice of bank representatives and developers at a public meeting on Sept. 6, as homeowners in Hunts Point gathered to learn about profiting off their homes amid a swath of […]
Read More Public discussion over community land trusts sparks protestBy Rachel Rippetoe on October 1, 2018 at 10:33 am A nonprofit in Longwood is rallying residents to fight displacement amid the city’s impending rezoning. About 30 people discussed the rezoning of a 130-block area from Longwood north to Crotona Park, on either side of Southern Boulevard, at the Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association on Prospect Avenue […]
Read More Banana Kelly pushes for a land trust ahead of Southern Boulevard rezoningSEPTEMBER 27, 2018 BY RACHEL RIPPETOE Some housing complexes have had no pickup for weeks The suspension of garbage hauler Sanitation Salvage last month has created a trash problem for public housing developments across the South Bronx. Bronx Property Management department head Dennis Ovalle confirmed at a meeting of tenant presidents from NYCHA complexes across the area […]
Read More Trash piles up after NYCHA loses contractorOCTOBER 5, 2018 BY RACHEL RIPPETOE A month later, tenants deal with mold and bureaucratic delays A burst pipe on the floor above hers sent water dripping from the crevices of Beatrice Dickerson’s ceiling in August, flooding her Morrisania Air Rights apartment with more than two inches of water. A month later, Dickerson, 76, said the […]
Read More NYCHA tenants cope with aftermath of floodingBy Rachel Rippetoe – Editorial Intern, Nashville Business Journal Aug 16, 2018, 8:46am After a career building video games in San Francisco, Max Knudsen did what any retired tech guru would do: bought a 47-acre farm in Middle Tennessee and, eventually, began a goat business. Shenanigoats, a goat landscaping and events business that Knudsen founded with partner Jamie […]
Read More Goatrepreneurs: How this family built a business on fun and farm animalsBy Rachel Rippetoe – Editorial Intern, Nashville Business Journal Jul 20, 2018, 8:22am Minority and women contractors better get ready, Mayor David Briley says, because opportunities for work with Metro are coming. Briley spoke Thursday during the 2018 Business Symposium, hosted every year by Belmont Law School. At this year’s event, Bloomberg Associates and the Metro Nashville Business Assistance Office […]
Read More Surveys: Metro’s big contractors and minority-owned firms don’t see eye to eyeBy Rachel Rippetoe – Editorial Intern, Nashville Business Journal Jul 17, 2018, 8:40am The Nashville Business Incubation Center is undergoing a big shift, and it could mean big things for minority and female entrepreneurs wanting to get in on Nashville’s boom, according to Executive Director Angela Crane-Jones. The incubation center, which is a program designed to help small businesses […]
Read More ‘We’re building CEOs:’ Nashville’s oldest incubator changes with the timesBy Rachel Rippetoe – Editorial Intern, Nashville Business Journal Jul 16, 2018, 12:14pm Amid an amenities battle between Nashville’s newest luxury hotels, with pillow menus and special yoga sessions and rooftop bars each quirkier than the next, there is Sasha. Sasha is a unique hotel greeter. She is very friendly and children especially love her. If you give […]
Read More All dogs allowed: How this luxury hotel is standing out in Nashville’s crowded fieldBy Rachel Rippetoe – Editorial Intern, Nashville Business Journal Jul 3, 2018, 7:30am CDT Updated Jul 3, 2018, 9:11am As Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin sat on a Gulch patio one morning, Teplin donned a slouchy grey sweatshirt with white letters across the chest that read “not a fashion blogger.” The shirt sells for $70 on the website for their […]
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Read More How Metro plans to keep up as Bird and its competitors flock to NashvilleAn analysis in the aftermath of the Wallys By Rachel Rippetoe | May 3, 2018 8:53am University of Portland President Fr. Mark Poorman wrote a good second apology. I sat on the opposite side of the room as he read it aloud at the April 17 Academic Senate meeting in Franz Hall. It did all the good […]
Read More Letter from the Editor: UP’s sexist culture starts and ends at the topBy Rachel Rippetoe | April 17, 2018 6:12pm University of Portland President Fr. Mark Poorman apologized to students, parents, regents, faculty and staff late Tuesday afternoon, in response to accounts of a racially and sexually insensitive speech given during Sunday’s Wally Awards. Poorman has been widely criticized for sitting in the front of the room and not intervening. […]
Read More Poorman apologizes for his inaction, promises to do moreBy Rachel Rippetoe | April 4, 2018 10:27pm The photographs hanging on the walls of Vice President for Athletics Scott Leykam’s office change. The shot of men’s cross country head coach Rob Connor standing on a podium in 2014 will soon be replaced with a similar but more recent photo of the team winning second place […]
Read More Making Strides: Six years of Athletics under Scott Leykam