The New Year cele- 45TH PCT. HOSTS DRUG PREVENTION SEMINAR
brations may be over but
our fun is just beginning.
We are looking forward
to new opportunities, collaborations
and ideas in
2019. The Throggs Neck
Merchants Association will continue
to further our mission of supporting
and assisting businesses, organizing
networking events and improving the
shopping area. The Community Board
10 staff, Assemblyman Michael Benedetto
and his staff and Councilman
Mark Gjonaj and his staff are keeping
TNMA well informed on NYC/NYS related
programs and we will try to give
you any updates in this coming year.
Our fi rst TNMA meeting of the year
will be held at Patricia’s of Tremont,
3883 E. Tremont Avenue on Wednesday,
January 30 at 7 p.m. Bring your business
cards, brochures or fl yers to exchange
with our other members. If you
know of a business person who may be
interested in attending but is not yet a
member, please invite them. Dinner is
still only $10 per person. There will be
a 50/50 raffl e, as well.
Promoting your business, products
or services? Any merchants interested
in promoting their business,
products and services in Throggs Neck
and neighboring areas should consider
sponsoring a TNMA meeting. It’s is a
great way to get your name out there. As
a sponsor, you will be allowed to give a
brief presentation to our
members the night of the
meeting. We also waive
our dinner fee for sponsors
and spotlight your
business in our meeting
announcements, in this
column for the month and via our social
media. Our Facebook page alone, which
has over 1,000 friends, is followed by
members, non-members and residents
so your target audience goes further
than just the attendees of our monthly
meetings. If you or another member/
merchant is interested in sponsoring
one of our meetings this year, please
ask them to email info@throggsneckmerchants.
com or call Angela at (646)
657-1312.
Not a member? Consider becoming
a Throggs Neck merchant member. Our
merchant association is one of the largest
in the Bronx. As a TNMA member,
your business will be featured on our
website, your events and promotions
will be listed in our TNMA column in
the Bronx Times and you can network
with other members at any of our meetings
and events. Join with fellow merchants
to develop special promotions or
projects designed to benefi t the entire
commercial strip, as well as the surrounding
community. Ready to become
a TNMA member? Go to our website,
www.throggsneckmerchants.com for
more info or download the membership
application at www.throggsneckmerchants.
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BRONX TIMES REPORTER, J 38 ANUARY 25-31, 2019 BTR
The 45th Precinct hosted an Overdose Prevention Free Naloxone Training and Distribution
event on Thursday, January 17 at Kips Bay Recreational Center. The event
featured opening remarks by deputy inspector Carlos Ghonz, 45th Precinct commanding
offi cer; a presentation and Naloxone kit distribution by Throggs Neck
Community Action Plan and a refl ection by Schuyler Hill Funeral Home.
Photo by Silvio Pacifi co
com/member_application.pdf.
Our fi nal plea regarding holiday
lights. Thank you to all of the members
who donated and helped make the holiday
lights possible. Unfortunately, we
are still short in covering the cost of the
lights even though our vendor has been
generous with us in keeping the cost
down. We are asking for your donation
towards the lights. TNMA members
and non-members alike often contribute
since their customers enjoy the lights
and appreciate the business participation.
Go to our website at www.throggsneckmerchants.
com to make your donation
online. We appreciate your
contribution and continued support. If
you would like to send us a check, please
may your check payable to the Throggs
Neck Merchants Association and mail
it to the Throggs Neck Merchants Association,
PO Box 508, Bronx, NY 10465.
BY SANDI LUSK
On Monday, January
7, the pastor of St Peter’s
Avenue came before
Community Board 10’s
Land Use and Zoning
Committee to tell them
that St. Peter’s Church
had leased their adjacent land from
Westchester Avenue to Butler Place to
the Bluestone Group to develop into an
11-story affordable housing megabuilding.
She assured the committee that the
area to be developed was neither landmarked
nor a graveyard, which the
community had always believed.
Since then, we, with the help of concerned
community activists and great
help from the East Bronx History Forum
(thank you all!) have discovered
that:
The lot (designated Lot 6, next to
Lot 18, which is St Peter’s itself) was
indeed landmarked in 1976 (we have a
copy of the designation), and appears as
far back as 1868 and before on maps of
the area as Friends Cemetery, the cemetery
for the Orthodox Friends Church
across the street, a very early Quaker
cemetery, with at least 74 bodies, possibly
including family slaves as well, interred
there.
The property, which belonged to
the Society of Friends and dates back
to the early 1700s, was acquired by St
Peter’s Church in 1925 because there
was some space for more burials, as St.
Peter’s had run out of room, and also
so that St. Peter’s could maintain the
Friends burials already there. Yes, the
large grassy ‘fi eld’ has no visible head
stones. The Quakers, especially the earliest
Quakers, did not
believe in headstones,
and such that were allowed
would be barely
visible. Yet for centuries
the sacred nature
of the area has been
known and respected
by the church and the community. Now,
of all things, this very church seeks to
desecrate these burials to raise money
by leasing to Bluestone as an HPD building
site. It may be that St. Peter’s needs
money to maintain itself.
It is unfortunate that such an historic
church and congregation dating
back to the mid-1600s is in poor fi nancial
straits.
However, to get money by leasing
land that contains historic burials,
which is landmarked, of such historical
importance, and that they were to
‘maintain’ in exchange for their acquisition
in 1925 is simply unconscionable.
WSZIO has reached out to the NYC
Landmarks Preservation Commission
for guidance on how to stop this sacrilege.
We will keep you posted.
On another note: CB 10 joined CB 11
in voting down the zoning change for
Blondell Avenue from M1 to R7A. In
their presentation to the board, the developers
and their lawyers stated that
it would be a good thing for the entire
street to be developed into huge apartment
blocks. Oh, great for business.
Thankfully, the board did not agree
and voted it down. There are more hearings
coming up for Blondell Commons,
and we will keep you posted on the
WSZIO page on FaceBook.
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