On January 18th, Stephanie Sinclair’s ‘Too Young To Wed’ exhibition opened up at the Bronx Documentary Center with over 400 people joining the opening reception. This multimedia exhibit explores the culture of child brides and marriages in several parts of the world.
As part of the programming connected to the current exhibition at the BDC, this Saturday February 1st at 7 PM the center will host ‘VERY YOUNG GIRLS‘ Screening & Q+A with director Nina Alvarez and film subject Dominique.
From the BDC:
The documentary takes us into the work of a former sexually exploited youth-turned-activist named Rachel Lloyd, who started the New York City organization GEMS (Girls Educational and Mentoring Services) to help victimized young women escape their pimps and find another way of life. We meet teenage girls at different stages of this transition. Some have been so psychologically manipulated by their pimps that they feel compelled to return. Others have successfully broken with their past. As we come to know these girls better, they emerge as well-rounded individuals full of unexpected laughter and insight.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2014 | 7:00PM
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CURRENT EXHIBITION
TOO YOUNG TO WED | STEPHANIE SINCLAIR
Photographs by Stephanie Sinclair and featuring short films by
Jessica Dimmock and Stephanie Sinclair
PHOTO EXHIBITION ON VIEW JANUARY 19–MARCH 16, 2014
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Subway 2 & 5train to 3rd Avenue-149th Street
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Photos from the opening reception of Stephanie Sinclair’s Too Young To Wed:
The popular chain of Puerto Rican cuisine is finally coming to the Bronx and opening on City Island.
Many locals on the News12 the Bronx Facebook page were excited about having Don Coqui closer to home while others predicted mayhem and doom for City Island.
Some of the comments are pretty downright racist and clearly individuals seem upset that a Latino restaurant will be opening on City Island.
Don Coqui isn’t the first nor will be the last Latino restaurant on the Island. Remember Tito Puente’s restaurant?
Have you been to Don Coqui? Are you glad that they’re opening a location in the Bronx? How do you feel about it being located on City Island?
Hunts Point, home to the largest food industrial distribution center in the world and home to thousands of residents, sits precariously on the coast as a peninsula within the Bronx peninsula.
It is, without a doubt, important that we protect our vulnerable coasts and the fact that Hunts Point also feeds most of the Northeast region of the country, it is in our best interest to do so. Courtesy Rebuild By Design
Rebuild By Design is running the multistage regional competition process and has a dedicated page to the Hunts Point proposal where you can read more about it.
Paul Lipson, former Chief of Staff for Congressman José E Serrano and now currently president of Barretto Bay Strategies, LLC said that, “…this process is tied to a competition for tens of millions of federal dollars to protect the eastern seaboard and The Bronx shouldn’t be left out.”
As Bronxites, we know all too well that we often get left out but this isn’t one that we should sit on.
While the competition is great and puts together experts and residents to envision what they want and need for their areas, it falls short in that these communities have to compete with each other.
All these areas were affected by Superstorm Sandy and should receive the necessary funding needed. Perhaps we’d have the money if our government wasn’t throwing corporate subsidies worth billions at companies like FreshDirect and so many others.
With climate change a reality, we need to rally together and fight for our communities so please come out this Tuesday and be a part of the discussion AND solution.
The New York Film/Video Council (NYFVC) the city’s oldest non-profit organization supporting the film, video and electronic arts community, presents an afternoon in discussion with the best and brightest of New York City’s emergent microcinema scene.
Panelists:
Maysles Cinema’s Jessica Green (Cinema Director)
DCTV’s Dara Messinger (Director of Filmmaker Services & Programming)
Since my earliest memories of visiting my family on Olinville just south of Allerton Avenue, I always knew the neighborhood as Allerton.
Apparently, according to maps, it’s either Bronxdale or Laconia but neither names seem to be ever used by locals.
Ben Kochman of the Bronx Times reports that the there are now efforts being made to officially rename the neighborhood Allerton.
In the article it says:
“There’s no question that those names are not accurate,” said Jeremy Warneke, CB11’s district manager. “No one calls that area Bronxdale. Find me one person who calls that area Bronxdale.”
It’s hard to find anyone with a clear idea of where “Bronxdale” or “Laconia” begin or end.
“You tell people you’re from Bronxdale and they have no idea where you are from,” said Joe Thompson, president of the 49th Precinct Community Council, who has lived in what he calls the “Allerton Avenue area” for nearly 50 years.
The Mott Haven Herald has just published a very eye-opening article on just how deep lobbyists are in bed with our local politicians to make a deal with FreshDirect without community input.
Now Bernard Stein at the Mott Haven Herald and Hunts Point Express has revealed just how in deep FreshDirect, via lobbyists have been with our elected officials and Community Board 1.
According to the article:
“Because the consultants aren’t obliged to disclose their compensation and the lobbyists’ reports combine work related to the move to the Bronx with other lobbying on the company’s behalf, it is impossible to tell just how much FreshDirect has spent in its campaign to win approval for its move and the accompanying tax breaks and grants, but the reports suggest that it is at least $200,000.
Among those lobbied by the Parkside Group and Akerman Senterfitt LLP are a deputy mayor, the borough president, the heads of the Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation, the city Economic Development Corporation and the state’s Empire Development Corporation, the counsel to the governor, City Councilwoman Maria del Carmen Arroyo, the Bronx director of the Dept. of City Planning and members of Community Board 1 and its district manager Cedric Loftin.
Parkside has represented FreshDirect since 2004, according to the records of the City Clerk. Through 2011, it was paid a retainer of $48,000 a year to advance FreshDirect’s interest in city and state legislation and in regulations concerning trucking and workman’s compensation.
In 2012, its fee shot up to $6,500 a month. Through the first six months of 2013, according to state and city records, it has earned $112,000 to lobby state, city and local officials in connection with FreshDirect’s move from Queens and the grants and subsidies that added up to $128 million.
Months before FreshDirect’s planned move was announced, Parkside officials met with Deputy Mayor Robert K. Steel, with the borough president and with Seth Pinsky, then head of the Economic Development Corp., filings with the state’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics show.”
Today, January 19th marks an important day for me and perhaps many other Bronxites. It is the one year anniversary of the opening exhibition Seis Del Sur: Dispatches from Home by Six Nuyorican Photographers.
The story of the South Bronx —the ‘Burning’ Bronx was finally told through the eyes of our own people. 6 men who lived through it, experienced it first hand rather than someone who may have just barely set foot on our soil to snap some exploitative photographs or worse yet; never at all.
This exhibition, which ran for 6 weeks into March of last year, had weekly screenings and panel discussions which were standing room only, much like the opening reception where people had to wait outside because it was so packed to get in.
If i learned anything during that exhibition it’s this: The importance of a community to be able to tell its own story.
We have countless examples of outsiders coming in to many disadvantaged neighborhoods and preying on the strife of the locals for their own personal gain.
This is not to discredit in no way shape or form the majority of intrepid journalists who do tell the stories of a community with integrity and respect but simply that we have to remain vigilant about the stories being shaped and formed about us.
In many ways it is the reason I started blogging over four years ago: Most of the mainstream media rarely covered the successes of the South Bronx and the Bronx in general. We were ignored and only had a spotlight cast down upon us when tragedy struck —as if bad things were endemic to the Bronx.
Below is the story I originally published in Welcome2Melrose on the opening reception.
Enjoy!
I was born in the old Lincoln Hospital on the first day of spring back in March of 1975 to two transplants from the island of Puerto Rico. As many of their compatriots, they came in search of a better life on the mainland and settled in the South Bronx.
The Bronx was already burning.
Up until I was 7, we lived on Tinton Avenue just south of 149th Street where a couple of buildings on either side of the block (as well as a few old row houses) were the only signs of life. The remainder of the block was like any other in the South Bronx – lifeless in the burnt out or abandoned buildings save for the children (or some unsavory folks) running through the cavernous void left behind by the former families who occupied the these dwellings.
Abandoned cars, rubble strewn lots, mattresses and open fire hydrants, or la pompa as we would call them in Spanish, were our playground equipment but we were innocent and didn’t think twice about it. It was normal.
That was a part of my story that came alive this weekend.
Saturday, the Bronx had a family reunion of sorts. We met at the Bronx Documentary Center to celebrate the opening of Seis Del Sur: Dispatches from Home by Six Nuyorican Photographers which transported us back to the Bronx of the 70s and 80s. A time where many would say we lost our innocence, yet a time where innocence danced and played as if all were well in the world. Los Seis reopened a chapter in our family album for the first time as one collection for all to see. Sure, there have been photography exhibits where the trials tribulations of the South Bronx of the 70s and 80s were on display but it was mostly by those from the outside looking in. This time it’s different. Our own brothers and neighbors, men who not only documented it but lived it sharing their story, their journey, our lives.
Something magical happened in the Melrose neighborhood of the South Bronx on Saturday, something that is quite difficult to put into words but I’ll try and do my best. I don’t think we were quite prepared for the overwhelming emotions running amongst us for it wasn’t just the photographs we were experiencing but ourselves. In many ways the evening was a living, breathing exhibition of us as a family come together to reminisce of days gone by finally done on our terms by our own.
It was an evening filled with hugs and kisses and joyous reunions with a hint of respect to those dearly departed that were walking with us in spirit.
One of the most beautiful moments was when the NYPD and local FDNY came for a few minutes to look at the history that they were a part of as well. There was no us or them for that moment but a we. That is the power of photography and places such as the Bronx Documentary Center: It levels the playing field and forces us to connect rather than disconnect.
The hundreds and hundreds that came packed the Bronx Documentary Center where it was standing room only with dozens more waiting outside to get in. The smell of empanadas and arroz con gandules permeated the air as much as the energy did. It was a fitting meal served casually as if we were in our own living room. The collection of photographs showed the burning Bronx that I remembered: the one filled with family, friends and good times – that was the real burning, one of passion.
We may have been abandoned by our civic leaders, landlords and businesses during those times but instead of total and utter collapse, we carried on and became the leaders we needed. This is one of the many stories you see in the portraits by Los Seis.
Thank you to Los Seis, for sharing their journey and our story with us and the world. It was great running into so many people from all walks of life, from Riverdale and the North Bronx and all across the South Bronx they came – as well as from beyond our borough. Even our former Borough President Fernando Ferrer came and celebrated with us as well as Afrika Bambaataa, the Amen Ra of Universal Hip Hop Culture, Lisa Kahane, a contemporary of Los Seis who also shot the scenes from those decades and author of Do Not Give Way to Evil: Photographs of the South Bronx 1979-1987.
The show will run until March so you have time to get over to the BDC and absorb this wonderful journey. Stay tuned with the Bronx Documentary Center for programming events centering around the exhibit.
PS 25 built in 1897, the 117 year old school still stands proud on East 149th Street and Tinton Avenue.
The school was the first bilingual school in New York City offering English and Spanish instruction, first serving largely the Puerto Rican community and more recently children from all over Latin America as the demographics of the neighborhood has changed.
In recent years, PS 25 has turned around from being one of the worst performing schools and has achieved major improvements under the guidance of principal of Carmen Toledo-Guerrero.
Did you attend the school? What are your memories of PS 25?
As Westerners, we often look at the practice of child brides and marriages as archaic and barbaric, yet this harmful practice continues across the globe and is still accepted by members of their respective societies.
EXHIBITION RECEPTION
Saturday, January 18, 6PM – 9PM
Free and open to the public
ON VIEW
January 19 – March 16, 2014
Thursdays and Fridays 3PM – 7PM
Saturdays and Sundays 1PM – 5PM
The Bronx Documentary Center is located at 614 Courtlandt Avenue at the corner of East 151st Street and is easily accessible by
Subway: 2 or 5 train to 3rd Avenue-149th Street
Bus: BX6, BX15, BX19, BX21, BX41
Car 24-hour parking available directly next door to BDC
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Whether you’re for or against the possibility of a new soccer stadium, please make every effort to attend tonight’s Town Hall Meeting at 7:30PM at 900 Grand Concourse at the corner of 161st Street.
For more coverage on the soccer stadium check out our past stories.
Do we really need to publicly subsidize yet another corporation which can fully build such a Stadium? Why should tax payers be asked to pay for The $300+ million Stadium which New York City Football Club’s owners can easily build with their own money.
Let’s not forget that we’re also being asked to let them to use public land rent free for 38 years.
The conversation that needs to happen is what does the community want done in this area.
26 year old Bronx born and raised music artist, actor and Cardinal Hayes graduate, Christopher Estrada, is definitely starting off the year right and hit the ground running. Today he released his first single and music video and in early February will begin production on ‘Heartland’, an independent film written by Bronxite Orlando Reyes.
‘Music is My Only Love’, is written by Christopher Estrada with original music by Xavier Johnson/Iah Cranks. Vocal production was done by JR Abdelhamid, Founder and CEO of ATOF Studios.
JR Abdelhamid remembers watching Estrada performing at clubs in the NYC area and, “wanted to work with Christopher…I was looking for a talented artist prominent in the gay community to work with. We both value each other’s opinion and understand how important it is to be honest and comfortable with each other’s ideas and criticism.” Carlos Arias Photography
Abdelhamid went on to say, “The music industry is a tough business. Not everyone can do it! Its not just about having talent. I always tell Estrada from when we first started working together that I admired his work ethic and as an independent artist you must have the drive, work ethic, and talent to succeed and in my eyes, Estrada has what it takes.”
After the video below, make sure you read our interview with Christopher Estrada where he gets to the nitty-gritty of his journey, growing up in the Bronx, praises for Lehman College’s theatre program, and tough choices and sacrifices he had to make to get to this day. He also tells us about his role in the upcoming independent film, ‘Heartland’, by Bronxite Orlando Reyes, about a young girl who is bullied at school due to her life at home – so she takes matters into her own hands and the resulting action leaves her parents wondering what they can do to help their little girl.
Director: Todd Rocheford
Executive Producer: Christopher Estrada
Creative Director/Producer: JR Abdelhamid
Choreography: Harold David
Styling: Omar Alexander
Hair: Ray Negron
Make Up: James Carrera
How would you describe yourself as an artist?
I’m the type of artist that is constantly evolving. I never want to stick to just one genre of music, or one type of performance. I’m always changing in some way.
Who are your biggest influences?
Daft Punk, Depeche Mode, Stevie Nicks, Seal, Garbage, Sade, Madonna and Jennifer Lopez are some of my biggest musical influences. I’m also really into newer artists like Janelle Monae and Lana Del Rey.
When did you know that you wanted to pursue singing professionally?
I was 13 years old when Kylie Minogue came out with “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head.” I remember recording it off of the radio on a cassette, and playing it over and over until I wore out the tape. That song literally got stuck in my head, and after that, I was never able to shake that feeling of wanting to get stuck in people’s heads. Eddie Soto Photography
Tell us about Music is My Only Love.
Music Is My Only Love is my very first single, off of my upcoming album by the same name. It’s really an introduction to the album, and to my audience. It’s the very first thing anyone should know about me, that Music Is My Only Love. Out of all the distractions I’ve faced throughout my life, music has always been this driving force for me, it’s kept me sane and focused, so the single is really about me professing my devotion to my art.
Describe your album.
My album has a little bit of everything, it tells my story up until where I am in my life right now. It’s about this really interesting journey I’ve been on, going from darkness to light, finding myself and figuring out who I am as a person, as an artist and as a man. Each song flows into the next, and I think people are going to be really surprised with the material on this album. I’m exploring so many different genres and pushing myself vocally and lyrically. I feel more aware of myself and my thoughts, and I think this album reflects that. It’s really personal, and my audience is going to know so much more about who I am.
Who is your target audience?
Anyone and everyone who will listen. Anyone who wants to follow me can. Anyone can come to my shows, anyone can relate to my music. I’ll sing for anyone who wants to hear it. Some people might argue that’s too broad of a spectrum, but I’ve always been one to think on a grand-scale.
When can we expect another song to be released?
I already selected a second single, we shot the video just a few weeks ago so it’ll be out very, very soon!
How did you become involved in acting?
I started acting before I even knew what acting was. As a child I was always putting on shows for my family, and as a kid in school I was in every school play. The older I got, the more I wanted to study acting, and the more I fell in love with the craft.
What are some of the plays you were in, including role, and venue?
I did some great work while studying theatre at Lehman College, I played Palomo in Anna In The Tropics by Nilo Cruz, Rooftop in Our Lady of 121st Street by Stephen Adly Guirgis, and Peter Evans in BUG by Tracy Letts. After college I was accepted into the Glass Beads Theatre Ensemble in NYC, during my time with them I did my first Off-Broadway play Lily of the Conservative Ladies, at the June Havoc Theatre and written by Michael Locasio and directed by Mari Gorman, and we also debuted a play called Browsing at the NYC Fringe Festival in 2011 where I played about 5 completely different characters in one show.
What year did you graduate from Lehman College?
I never actually graduated from Lehman College. College is expensive. And after a few semesters studying theater I began to get increasingly restless in my courses. I was anxious about plunging myself further into debt all for a degree that could not guarantee my future. I went to Lehman because of their fantastic Theater program, I learned so much there, but I wanted to be out in the real world, so I broke away from school and I started performing my music in clubs in NYC. I was recommended to theater director Mari Gorman by Marilyn Sokol, who I studied acting with at Lehman, and after a 3-month audition/workshop with Glass Beads I was invited to become a member of the company. It wasn’t an easy decision to leave school, but it was the choice I knew I needed to make. I wanted real-life experience in my field, and I vowed that I would return to school as soon as I could afford to do so.
Tell us about Heartland and how you became involved in it and what role will be.
I did a photo-shoot a few months ago with photographer Christian Reyes, and he introduced me to his brother, Heartland director Orlando Reyes, whose work I had already seen. He told me about Heartland and I loved the concept, I asked him if I could audition for the film but it was already cast.
Then a few months later he reached out to me and said there was a part he thought I’d be great for and sent me the script. I immediately knew it was something I wanted to be a part of. I’ll be playing the role of Jonathan, he’s a father and a gay man, he’s navigating the complexities of parenthood and raising his 13 year old daughter who is at such a difficult time in her own life. His main concern is that his daughter is safe and loved, and he’s devoted to bringing his family together. I think it’s a great part, it’s a powerful story with a beautiful message, and it’s also a completely different character than I’ve ever played before.
What was it like to grow up gay in the Bronx?
I can’t lie, growing up was tough. Kids were cruel. I never felt like I fit in, Middle School was absolute torture. Didn’t have much friends, didn’t hang out with neighborhood kids. I was bullied ferociously, and I spent most of my time feeling like an outcast. I spent a lot of time alone, so I had nothing better to do than invent characters, write songs, and fantasize about a future where I would be loved by the world. I’ve been jumped a few times, I was followed home from school by bullies.
I didn’t know it then, but it was all preparation for my future. I’ve already been ridiculed, I’ve already been rejected, I’ve already been overlooked, I grew-up being the underdog. Now I’m hard as steel and tough as shit. I learned the hard way that I had to stand up for myself and what I believe in. Growing up in gay in The Bronx was a blessing. I have the cojones to go for what I want in life, and I’ll stop at nothing until I get it. I fear no one but myself. Eddie Soto Photography
Does your experience as an openly gay Latino from the Bronx influence your music?
My experience as a human influences my music. My music is about wanting love and wanting to be a better version of myself. It’s about learning to believe in myself and the power of my dreams, and that’s something that I think everyone wants. Yes, I am an openly gay Latino from The Bronx, so culturally there are many influences that pour into my music, but I would caution anyone from marginalizing me as an artist because of labels like “gay,” “latino,” or “from The Bronx.”
I have nothing to hide or be ashamed of, I’m very proud of who I am and where I come from, I cannot stress that pride enough, but there are so many more interesting things that make up who I am. My education, my talents, where I’ve traveled, relationships, family, heartbreaks, dead-end jobs, disappointments, loss and failure. I have a lifetime of experiences that influence my music, and I sing and write about things that everybody goes through. We’re all on this one planet together. All humans are 99.9% percent the same, genetically speaking, I’m influenced by all of humanity. It’s the spirit of unity that influences my music.
How has the Bronx influenced you?
The Bronx is tough, there’s no doubt about it. It can be gritty and dark, but pressure makes diamonds in the rough. Nothing is handed to us here in The Bronx, we have to work for it.
People here have to work hard for what they have, we’re self starters. We build ourselves up, that’s what we do. That’s what the bronx has taught me for sure.
What’s your favorite place in the Bronx and why?
Co-op City – I grew up here, it’s my home. It’s a little sanctuary from the rest of the city, plenty of green space, I live high up in the clouds, my home is an endless source of inspiration.
What have been the most difficult obstacles in getting to where you are today?
Myself. My own self-doubts. My biggest obstacle has been, very honestly, to get over myself. Get over all the fears and doubts, the voices in my head that tell me I’m not good enough. It’s all stupid. It’s all bullshit. It’s a lie. And once I finally got that through my head, things started to fall into place.
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Traveling the world, performing my music on stage for everyone and anyone who will listen. More music, more film, more stage. More everything. I want more.
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In a meeting held last week at Bronx Legal Services by concerned community members about the proposed Major League Soccer stadium sweetheart deal, it was revealed by several individuals that Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr was proceeding cautiously with this deal as to not make the same mistake he made with the FreshDirect deal. Site of proposed soccer stadium.
These comments were allegedly made by Ruben Diaz Jr at the December 30th stakeholders meeting he held with local community members.
The FreshDirect sweetheart deal was made behind our backs almost 2 years ago and announced as a done deal without ever having any community input.
With overwhelming support againstFreshDirect moving to the Bronx (well over 40 community based organizations have signed on a platform to block the deal whereas only 6 or 7 organizations support the move) and the fact that the company didn’t even bother coming to Community Board 1 until 16 months after the announced deal it is no wonder that the BP would be moving cautiously.
When we contacted his office, we were given the following statement from Ruben Diaz Jr’s Communications Director, John DeSio:
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Our office has not yet made any decisions as to whether or not we would support this project. Our office is hosting a series of meetings with community stakeholders to measure interest in this project, and our eventual decision on this matter will be informed by those meetings.
As for FreshDirect, our office has and continues to support the company’s relocation to the Bronx—100 percent. However, our office has heard some concerns from legitimate community leaders that that project was not vetted to the community prior to its approval, and these meetings help ensure that the soccer stadium—should it move forward—would not be subject to similar criticisms.
The borough president also held up the FreshDirect MOU, as well as the Kingsbridge Armory CBA, as models of what could be done in and for the community should the project move forward.
“The Bronx would be the perfect home for a new professional soccer franchise. I am ready to work with Major League Soccer to make this a reality, and I look forward to beginning this conversation,”
This was in a letter Diaz Jr wrote to MLS Commissioner Don Garber on June 12th urging him to, “…consider the Bronx, and not Queens, as the home of its newest franchise, the New York City Football Club.”
Completely different tone from what was just released by the Borough President’s office but it is it because they truly are attempting to listen to the community or is it because New York City Football Club president Ferran Soriano looking at other sites outside of the Bronx?
On Friday it was announced by mlssoccer.com that the club is actively looking at locations outside of the Bronx so can it be that Diaz Jr is now on the fence because the Bronx deal may not actually happen?
But is this really the case or are our politicians being pushed against the wall with the same threat made by greedy corporations: If you don’t want this deal, we know other communities ready to take it.
Bettina Damiani, Project Director at Good Jobs New York and who has been instrumental in helping educate the community on how deals like FreshDirect negatively impact our communities rather than benefit them as promised, was at the meeting last Wednesday at Bronx Legal Services.
“We shouldn’t be having conversations about Memoranda of Understanding or Community Benefits Agreements at this point,” said Damiani in response to what the BP’s office had to say about the Kingsbridge Armory CBA and FreshDirect MOU. “The conversations that need to be happening right now is with the community and what they want done with the land.” Damiani added.
It is important to note that contrary to popular belief, sport stadiums and arenas do not add promised economic benefits to the neighborhoods they are built in.
Regardless of what’s happening behind the scenes, please attend a townhall meeting this coming Wednesday, January 15th at 7:30PM hosted by the 161st Street BID at 900 Grand Concourse. Email your thoughts on the soccer stadium deal to cary@161bid.org and please attend this meeting! It is important, as a community, to voice your thoughts and concerns!
ALSO: The possibility of a new soccer stadium is the subject for BronxTalk tonight. 9pm. BronxNet’s channel 67 and Fios 33. streamed on bronxnet.org
