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Congressman
Joseph Crowley
Fighting for the People of Nan Nest
- Recognizing the lifeline that is the New York Express Bus service, working to keep it continually servicing the commuters of Van Nest
- Enacting into law legislation mandating a review and overhaul of the postal operations throughout the Northwestern Bronx to provide greater service and efficiency for its customers
- Fighting for and winning $100,000 for an EPA study of the air and noise pollution surrounding Van Nest resulting from LaGuardia Airport
- Successfully led charge in Congress for $650 million to reimburse NYPD for expenses so these funds can be channeled to ensure more street patrols and safer neighborhoods
- Establishing and funding the position of West Nile Czar to respond to the West Nile Encephalitis crisis, which was recently discovered in Van Nest, as well as leading the battle in Congress to continually provide funding to CDC to combat West Nile Virus
- Secured commitments from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to keep the four New York City VA hospitals Ð Bronx, St Albans, Manhattan, and Brooklyn Ð open, operating and accepting patients for the long term
- Opened a Congressional Office on East Tremont Avenue to better respond to neighborhood concerns
- Secured $10,000 for the Crime Victims Support Services of the North Bronx, an anti-crime and community improvement group
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Van
Nest
Van Nest is a neighborhood in the central Bronx bounded to the
north by Park Avenue and the Esplanade, to the east by Bronxdale
Avenue, to the south by East Tremont Avenue, and to the west by
Bronx River Parkway. The first European settlers were members
of the family of Pieter Pietersen Van Neste, who settled in the
area in 1647. A railroad station was built to accommodate visitors
to the Morris Park Racecourse. The area remained farmland until
the 1870s, when it was divided into seventeen hundred lots for
development by the Van Nest Land Improvement Company.
Development
and a nexus of trolley lines nearby in West Farms led to the construction
of one-family frame houses; the streets were named for members
of the Van Neste family. The first apartment buildings were constructed
in the 1920s. In addition to a large Italian and Irish population,
in the 1980s Van Nest and its environs attracted some new immigrants
from Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, India, and China.
Nicholas DiBrino: Morris Park Racecourse (New York: Bronx
County Historical Society, 1977)
John McNamara: McNamara's Old Bronx (New York: Bronx County
Historical Society, 1989)
Gary D. Hermalyn, Encyclopedia of New York City, Edited by
Kenneth T. Jackson. New Haven, Yale University Press. 1995.
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