Inner City Press
Bronx Report - December 22, 2005
As the New York City transit strike was settled on December 22, the metal
barricades in front of the Metro-North station on Fordham Road in The Bronx were
still up. The commuter trains were standing room only. Cars lined up all the
way south to 183rd Street. Out in Baychester, bus drivers shifted
from the picket line into their afternoon shifts. It is unclear if the MTA, as
some have reported, is committed to drop its proposal to require increased
contributions by incoming employees to their pension plans. While in Manhattan
TWU president Toussaint and Mayor Bloomberg each gave speeches, neither
addressed the substance of the settlement. Toussaint said more details will
emerge in the coming days.
Amid the anecdotal journalism attending New York’s transit strike, Metro-North
decided to bypass The Bronx with its trains from Westchester to Manhattan. The
suburban railroad’s spokeswoman, Marjorie S. Anders, bragged that crowding will
ease because trains bound for Grand Central will not stop at stations in the
Bronx. And so the trains whizzed by…
Annals of enforcement:
last week the USDA reached into the Bronx cited “Gran Manzana Tropical Inc.” and
its sole owner with the delicious Apple-like name of Mauricio N. Tabarovsky for failure to
pay a New Jersey produce seller a $9,060 reparation award previously issued under the
Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act... Also last week, the National Credit Union
Administration placed into liquidation the Bronx-based Korean-American Chamber of Commerce
Federal Credit, after determining the credit union was insolvent and that management had
“abandoned credit union operations.” NCUA chartered Korean-American Chamber of
Commerce Federal Credit Union in 1979 to serve members and employees of the
Korean-American Chamber of Commerce in [the] Bronx, New York...
Of the U.S. military personnel killed to date in Iraq,
the youngest New Yorkers to fall
were four age 19, including Army Pfc. Luis Moreno of the Bronx, who was killed
by sniper fire on Jan. 29, 2004. The oldest were two 46-year-olds, including
Navy Cmdr. Joseph Acevedo, also of the Bronx, who was killed in a “non-hostile”
incident on April 13, 2003. Of the 47 military women killed in Iraq, three were
from New York. Marine Cpl. Ramona Valdez, 20, of the Bronx, was killed by a
suicide car bomber June 23, 2005.
Meanwhile
on the home front, military personnel on active duty are being
overcharged on high interest loans by bank holding companies including MBNA and
Bank of America, a new
investigation of compliance with the Servicemembers’ Civil Relief Act (SCRA)
by Inner City Press has uncovered. Through documents just
obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, ICP had documented widespread
violations of the SCRA, defrauding and overcharging of those in active military
service, and regulatory inertia in dealing with the abuses. See also,
US soldiers’
families allege loan discrimination by HSBC," by Karl West, The Herald
(Glasgow, Scotland), December 5, 2005.
Annals of enforcement:
last week the USDA reached into the Bronx cited “Gran Manzana Tropical Inc.” and
its sole owner with the delicious Apple-like name of Mauricio N. Tabarovsky for failure to
pay a New Jersey produce seller a $9,060 reparation award previously issued under the
Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act... Also last week, the National Credit Union
Administration placed into liquidation the Bronx-based Korean-American Chamber of Commerce
Federal Credit, after determining the credit union was insolvent and that management had
“abandoned credit union operations.” NCUA chartered Korean-American Chamber of
Commerce Federal Credit Union in 1979 to serve members and employees of the
Korean-American Chamber of Commerce in [the] Bronx, New York...
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