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Initiative uses Fieldston restaurants to put food into community fridge News 12 Mar. 6, 2021 A community fridge in Fieldston is feeding the hungry and giving business to nearby restaurants. A Riverdale woman who helps stock the fridge says she came up with a plan to help keep it full by taking advantage of its location. The fridge, on Broadway, is surrounded by restaurants - and says that the best way to help is by getting people to purchase a meal. Claudy's Kitchen, which serves Peruvian food, is offering a meal to customers that will also be put in the fridge for $7.99. It includes chicken and rice along with a water bottle and green sauce. Once prepared, it's off to the fridge. Lee Michele, the woman behind the initiative and the founder of Moms Feed the Bronx, says the goal is to build community partnerships to feed neighbors. The Final Stop kept the fridge running for its first month of operation. Now, the Jerusalem Cafe is helping keep it powered. Who's running in the
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Riverdale NIMBYs hostile to affordable housing, council candidate says Crain's Mar. 4, 2021 You can't get elected in Riverdale by advocating for the need for affordable housing, says Jessica Haller, one of six candidates running in a special election to fill the Bronx's 11th District seat on the City Council. Other communities in the borough are open to building much-needed housing, she said at a virtual housing forum, but the NIMBYs in the Northwest Bronx neighborhood are hostile to it. "If this were a community meeting in maybe five of the seven neighborhoods I'm running in . . . I could win on 'we're going to pop affordable housing into these neighborhoods,'" Haller said during a Zoom call with the housing advocacy group Open New York. "If I say it too loudly out my window right now, I can't win," she continued. "We need to move the conversation into places to show people that this will make us a richer and a better and a stro
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