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We are working towards creating a sustainable Mixed Use area of the Bronx, NY
Social, Educational, Environmental and Economic Stakeholders of Ferry Point working
together the create the Best Community with whatever assets we have.
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Our Meeting Hall 724 Brush Avenue
LIST OF INDUSTRY, SCHOOL, ETC.
Msgr Scanlon HS Sister Marie O'Donnell retired 2008 contact: Miss Nugent 718-430-0100
The students of Monsignor High School started their volunteer work with us in 2007. This was due to our outreach to get help for the Parks Dept. to plant over 3000 sapling trees in Ferry Point Park to create a 9/11 Living Memorial Forest for now and future generations.
2007
Oct. - 100 Scanlan Students helped plant the last wave of 3000 sapling Trees donated by the Prince of Monaco to create the "F.P. Living 9/11 Memorial Forest" and to plant hundreds of trees for the "Million Trees NY" in Ferry Point Park as well.
2008
May / June/ July/ Sept.- Hundreds of Scanlan student volunteers have helped us with our Littoral Waterfront clean
ups, tree stewardships, bbq table painting etc.
Oct. -85 Scanlan students planted a large semi circle of daffodils in the "Hilltop 9/11 Memorial Viewshed Grove" at Ferry Point Park
Nov. - 35 Scanlan Volunteers planted 1000 Daffodils in the Throggs Neck Memorial 9/11 Grove
2009
Construction throughout the Park (so we cut back on events)
May - 45 Scanlan Students Spring It's My Park Day
July -50 Tree Stewardship and Waterfront cleanup
Oct.- It's My Park Day was rained out...we will pick up our work in April 2010
2010
May 15 - It's My Park Day-
100 Scanlan Volunteers cleaned waterfront,
BBqued, Painted trash cans and BBQ tables throughout the park.
Total of 1100 volunteers have joined us to clean /weed /mulch /plant in Ferry Point Park.
Bronx Post Office Bulk Mail Facility
This Facility will be closing soon....we have to be alert as to what company will take over this huge ageing building
The hundreds of Tractor Trailers that load and unload from this facility have degraded the once quiet neighborhood and the M-1 restrictions that used to be well enforced.
Because this is a facility that is considered under federal jurisdiction, our police depts. have waived much of the enforcemnet of M-1 rules.
It has been a battle by all our various stages of Community and Civic groups to get the Tractor Trailers to follow the laws. We applaud the work of these groups and hope for continued success. 2009 update...the Trucks are still somewhat off the street...thank you to all involved.
505 Brush Ave. and Schley Avenue, Bronx, NY
Illegally lines vehicles up at 9:00 am along office entrance on Schley Ave.
and double parks into street . This causes the 2 way street to narrow to a one lane on a dangerous curve.
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Capri Whitestone Motel
Hutchinson River Parkway, Bronx, NY /Recently under new ownership has not shown any offensive movement.
Re opened snack bar and bar
Filmed a Movie with a NYC Permit Oct. 2009
545 Brush Avenue, Bronx, NY (1-800-742-5877)
(2007) around Christmas we had to write a letter to the community board and also call and visit the main office of UPS to complain about 6 vehicles that they were parking across from the residential area of Brush Ave. We understood that this may have been temporary but we explained to the manager of UPS that if the PO Up the block (subcontracted drivers) see this is allowed we will never get rid of them. UPS manager was rude and would not give his name. He complied only after his main office spoke with him.
They now use the employee parking for more trucks and have the employees park on Brush Ave.
H O Penn Machinery Company Incorporated
(718) 863-3800 www.hopenn.com. 699 Brush Avenue Bronx, NY 10465
President: Robert Clevend Contact: Don Cervantes 718-409-8501
using unpaved sidewalk to park large vehicles quite a muddy mess.
We are trying to get the street trees in front re-planted.
They have painted the ugly galvanized fence as per our request in the FP Com. Advocates Survey of needs for 2009
ART FORMS property owned by (Ciminello Properties) 711-733 Brush Avenue, Bronx, NY
planted flowers around street trees 2007 We agreed to water them, it took 45 minutes each night during dry days. We enjoyed them but could not care for them for another year.
Noisy Garbage removal has be taken care of
Feb. 2008 they put up a sign.
Dec. 2008 half the building seems to be up for lease. Residents of Brush Ave. hope the business stays due to their quite activity in such a large facility.
Oct. 2009 no longer leasing the half of building...hopes to expand TomCon using parking lot for construction vehicles.
6 acres of Parking lots (Ciminello)
$20,000 IN ESCROW BY EDC? FOR WATERFRONT ACCESS IS ON HOLD UNTIL DEVELOPMENT OCCURS AND DEVELOPMENT IS HELD BACK DUE TO VIOLATION NEEDING TO BE CLEARED BY DEC TO EDC.
cleared out one lot 2/07
Very active in 2008, Hellman Electric is parking in this lot.
Oct. 2009 Many large trailer trucks renting space for parking vehicles. Ciminello Properties has planted natural green vines to cover fence and block the vehicles from site.
2010 as many trucks as you can fit in a 6 acre site are there.
Ciminello has planted natural green foliage to the ugly chainlink fence which seems to be a perfect defense against grafitti and contributes oxygen and absorbs rainwater as well.
SAFETY CITY / NYC Childrens street crossing learning facility....
SOME COMPLAINTS HAVE BEEN FORWARDED TO THEM ABOUT GATHERINGS HELD AT NIGHT
IN TRAILER.
Sign Company is listed at this address? Will look into this?
Hellman Electric Corp.
855 Brush Ave. Bronx, NY 10465
Phone: 718-931-9900 Fax: 718-931-9930
Jason McCalla lmccalla@hellmanelectric.com
Quiet non obtrusive professionally run company...a good neighbor....
Oct. 2009 New Street trees planted along Brush Avenue.
AMBULETTE SERVICE. ILLEGALLY LEAVES VEHICLES IN STREET FOR THE ENTIRE DAY
AND NOW THAT THEY HAVE GROWN IN NUMBER THEY ARE USING LAFAYETTE AVE.
AS WELL TO PARK ALL DAY. DRIVERS ARE RUDE AND DOUBLE PARK WHILE CHATTING IN FRONT OF OFFICE.
Also seems to be on record as using the office for Religious use. (Kosher Food Distributor?)
Aug. 2009 this company suffered a ticket blitz at night when they had 20? vehicles parked in a no standing zone.
Now they rent a legal parking area next to Unitron for parking.
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875 Brush Ave, Bronx, NY 10465(866) 372-6750 NO PROBLEM THAT I HAVE HEARD ABOUT EXCEPT THAT SOME PEOPLE DUMP THEIR UNWANTED STUFF ON OUR SIDEWALKS AFTER THEY PICK IT UP FROM STORAGE. This company suffers from unfair tickets given for debris left from Ambulette drivers on a regular basis. Unitron Products Inc. 905 Brush Ave Bronx NY 10465-1888 718-863-7000 MESSY REPAIR SHOP BEHIND FENCE WITH NO SIDEWALK OR DRAINAGE FOR TOXIC OILS AND GAS FROM TRUCKS now used for Ambulette parking...has been cleaned up (Thank You) 2009 has cleaned half the area as of Nov. 2008 sidewalk and street area horrendous mess, no drainage, no sidewalk, puddles 10 feet into street become dangerous ice in winter, breed west nile? in summer. GONE: 2007 Snapple Distribution ILLEGALLY PARKS IN STREET AND SIDEWALK OVER NIGHT 999 Brush Ave. Bx., NY 10465 GONE: 2006 Atlantic Bus depot (That was some mess). GONE 2009 Scaffold Company (not any problem) BACK 2010 a different Bus Company...to many large vehicles for this busy corner. We notify building owner of illegal activities/ parking etc. and the co. seems to stop. PEPSI DISTRIBUTION 650 Brush Ave. Feb: 2007 6 acres of wooded area now is a huge distribution plant metal frame. April 30: the walls are going up with no protective fence. Letter sent to electeds and Pepsi asking questions about the future Traffic, Trucks, Catch Basins, Sidewalks. Nov. 2008: construction continues...this building is much bigger than our entire residential section. our neighborhood has 3 sections 200x300 Ft, 200x300ft, 200x100 Pepsi measures 6 acres Dec. 2008: Gas line has been connected through from Rohr & Brush to Pepsi, Left a big mess in already worn out street, no drainage for water and mud, huge puddles near Senger and Brush. Dec. 19, 2008: complaints have been registered to Com. Bd. 10 to keep the heavy traffic off Senger Place. Jan. 2009: many complaints about senger place being used as a drivway for construction vehicles much heavier then 5 tons. Feb.2009: trucks continue to intermittantly use senger place as driveway.Sidewalks are in on the Hutch Service road South. Article was written about our fears of graffitti along this huge wall. Pepsi responded saying the trees would take a while to grow once planted. March 2009: trees were cut along senger place to place sidewalk. Tree cutter says they will be cutting large trees throughout the undeveloped Jay Place to create a grassy area that would be an emergency exit? We have brought this to the attention of the Bronx Times and Com bd 10. By Oct. 2009 Noise abated 3 times by engineers, Jay Place cleaned by Sanitation Dept. Petitions for and against Jay place being made into a community Park have voided each other out. Trees in lot dying Water in swales abated by Pepsi Jay Place near 680 Brush has been fixed Streets are torn up multiple times Pepsi Trucks stop in front of homes to do inventory raise their sliding side doors and set off the dogs in the neighborhood each day all day. Trucks hit the undulating street at 5:00 am one and make horrid noises that are causing sleep deprivation in many residents. Catch basins must be connected before Dot will pave Brush from Wenner to Schley Catch Basins can not be connected without a special permit from DEP to allow Pepsi to cut part of the water main. DEP does not want Pepsi to re route the water main. CB10, Kleins office, Vaccas office, are working on this problem along with Pepsi. FPCom. Advocates has asked for a meeting with all stakeholders to come up with a solution. FP Civic Assoc. has asked to have the Temp. C of O revoked. The Ring Road has been opened at night since June 1st against our wishes and crime has increased in the Park and surrounding area since. Ring road is not used by Pepsi, Bridge construction blocks traffic/flooding has occured/pumped out twice, water drain pipes cleaned twice/ now someone is grading a portion of ring road.We sent photos to Bx Times and CB10. Daily news is interested as well. 2010 April/May -Pepsi donated water for the Friends Volunteers on Community Service Day & It's My Park Day Trucks are illegally using 2 way 5 ton limit Senger Place ... Trucks are parking across from 712/716 to do their inventory each day....regardless of the posted message at the dispatch office. most leave when asked. June- Tree branch from dead trees on Jay Place broke and fell on Pepsi Fence Ferry Point Community Advocates Writes: 4/30/2008 Dear Cheng Lu, Director-Systems Operations For some time now the question of subcontracted vehicles using your future To clarify this statement, I need to know that there will be no street usage of any trucks that have to do with loading, unloading dead storage between runs, or sleeping in their vehicles day or night, deriving from the use of this future Pepsi Distribution Site. We need a written response to this question ASAP. There is simply no longer any room for such traffic in our area and you will have to make other arrangements for subcontractors if this is even suspected to be a possible occurrence. We also need an updated version on what type of traffic and their projected routes for the estimated 120 (30 ft trucks) daily and the 14 (tractor trailers) after 11pm. So far we can only assume that the original Traffic Study that we questioned immediately as hard to enforce is now non existent. This original study said that the Tractor Trailers would not pass our homes at night. They would use the “ring” road that turned under the Bronx/Whitestone Bridge. Due to Homeland Security measures, this road is closed at Dusk since Sept. 11, 2001. In reality (the tractor trailers all use Brush Avenue throughout the day and night, just as we thought) The noise from the Trucks backing up now echoes off the walls of the pre existing “no set back” buildings (711 Brush) on the west side of Brush Ave. (your concrete wall seems to have addressed this problem and we thank you) We are also requesting to know what type of fence will be built along the exposed sides of your building to protect the huge walls from Graffiti. We have a NO tolerance for Graffiti in this neighborhood. (So far no graffitti) Jay Place concerns: I have heard of no plans to complete this mapped road and would like to know if you have any contacts that say this road is planned to be built within the next 3 years? Senger Place concerns: We are also requesting that at the time you (or the City) puts in the sidewalks along your site line at Senger Place and hope that there are no burst pipes due to this mis-use. We hope to be good neighbors as we hope you will be…. Drainage: As you have witnessed throughout the construction process, there is a water problem on this site which is caused by under ground springs. The homes on Jay place and many of the others in our area have been suffering with higher basement floods since the start of this construction. We hope that by installing the catch basins at the same time as your sidewalks, this will speed up the process and also keep from impairing your distribution of beverages in the future when these catch basins will be put in. (delay in connecting installed catch basins caused 3 foot floods along the Pepsi site, Cable vision vehicle was actually destroyed, many vehicle towed, HoPenn was on News 12 with the problem) Many residents have asked me “what is that huge crater you dug on the South end of the site?”. If you don’t mind telling me this I could pass the info on to the curious neighbors. I have guessed that it may be some king of holding tank area for the water you will be using in the process of washing down vehicles, or the ground water that may be a nuisance in the future? I don’t think you are in need of refrigeration on this property? (this was a holding tank and they did have to pump water from site after completion due to clogged run off) (2011 still pumping out water dyuring heavy rainfall) Many are curious if you decided to bring the Gas line down from Wenner Place?, Or are you staying with Oil Heat? Dorothea Poggi, Pres. Cc: Ken Kearns, Brendan Healy, Linh T.T. Do, Adolfo Carrion, James Vacca, Sen. Klein, Benedetto , that the long awaited catch basins are also constructed at the same time. Brush Ave.This may have to be addressed if your Trucks have those very loud back up beepers. | June |
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