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Supermarkets Continue to Disappear: Bloomberg Subsidizes FreshDirect

Fresh Direct

We have been pointing out that the city’s outrageous subsidy of FreshDirect runs counter to the much ballyhooed policy of supporting local supermarkets-stores that have been disappearing at an alarming rate. It makes no sense to throw $127 million at a company that will put neighborhood stores at risk.

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FreshDirect: Stop the Handout

Fresh Direct

There is an ongoing campaign against the city and state decision to give a $127 million hand out to the online grocer Fresh Direct. The campaign is being led by a coalition of South Bronx groups-aided and abetted by Good Jobs New York and NY Lawyers in the Public Interest.

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Kingsbridge Armory Development Still an Uncertainty

Kingsbridge Armory

As we have already commented, the development of the Kingsbridge Armory bears watching-and food retailers shouldn’t sit idly by and assume that non-competing uses will prevail. This cautionary warning is given greater urgency when we read the NY Post editorial on the subject-and the paper blasts the ice hockey concept, along with BP Diaz and labor leader Appelbaum, tow of its high profile its supporters

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Icing on the Armory Cake?

Rubin Diaz

According to the NY Times, Bronx BP Ruben Diaz has come out in support of turning the Kingsbridge Armory into an ice skating palace

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