News, updates and more from NYC Council Member Rafael Salamanca, Jr.

 

SALAMANCA ON OUR STREETS After numerous complaints of garbage pile up and illegal dumping in Melrose, Council Member Salamanca hosts a walking tour with NYC Department of Sanitation to address areas of concern and the need for increased street cleaning.

HUNTS POINT GIVES BACK Council Member Salamanca joins Bronx Community Board 2, NYPD 41st Precinct Community Council, The Hunts Point Community Partnership and other local community based organizations to distribute school supply kits, food and PPE to local families.

KEEPING HOPE ALIVE Council Member Salamanca swings by The Hope Program in Hunts Point to donate a dozen suits and ties for students in the career building program who will soon head into the workforce in style.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!  Council Member Salamanca continues to call out the illegal, harmful and irresponsible use of City streets by employees of the Juvenile Detention Center in the Third Ave HUB. Salamanca has called on NYPD to begin issueing summonses and towing vehicles that abuse street parking rules.

Council Member Salamanca continues to partner with NYC Health & Hospitals to utilize his District Office to host a COVID testing site where Bronxite can get no-cost testing, face masks, hand sanitizer and resources on how to help #StopTheSpread.  Next testing date will be: Thursday, March 11, 2020 from 9 AM to 4:30 PM