Bronx Community Boards

Bronx Community Boards

Tuesday, December 18th 2007, 4:00 AM

Community Boards are the little City Halls of the city, dealing with local issues involving city agencies and serving an advisory role in zoning and other land-use issues.

* COMMUNITY BOARD 1 (Melrose, Mott Haven) meets at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 31, at Lincoln Hospital, conference room 6, 234 Morris Ave., at E. 149th St. Call (718) 585-7117.

* COMMUNITY BOARD 5 (Morris Heights, Fordham, Bathgate and Mount Hope) meets at 6 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 23, at South Bronx Job Corps – auditorium, 1771 Andrews Ave. Call (718) 364-2030.

* COMMUNITY BOARD 9 (Soundview, Clason Point, Parkchester, Bruckner and Harding Park) meets at 7 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 20, at CB9 office, 1967 Turnbull Ave. Call (718) 823-3034.

* COMMUNITY BOARD 10 (Throgs Neck, City Island, Pelham Bay, Co-op City, Zerega, Westchester Square, Country Club and Edgewater) meets at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 17, at Villa Barone restaurant, 3289 Westchester Ave. Call (718) 892-1161.
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COMMUNITY BOARD 11 (Morris Park, Pelham Parkway, Laconia and Van Nest) meets at 7 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 20, at Calvary Hospital, 1740 Eastchester Road. Call (718) 892-6262.
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COMMUNITY BOARD 12 (Wakefield, Williamsbridge, Woodlawn, Eastchester and Baychester) will not meet in December. Call (718) 881-4455.

Bronx Community Boards.

Bronx organization leader hangs it up

Bronx organization leader hangs it up

BY BILL EGBERT
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Tuesday, December 18th 2007, 4:00 AM
The Rev. Louis Gigante, who helped rebuild neighborhoods destroyed by poverty and arson in the 1960s and ’70s. Lombard/News

The Rev. Louis Gigante, who helped rebuild neighborhoods destroyed by poverty and arson in the 1960s and ’70s.

The man who helped rebuild the Bronx from the ashes is passing a torch of a very different sort.

The Rev. Louis Gigante, who founded the South East Bronx Community Organization in 1968 as a wave of arson began sweeping through the borough, stepped down last week as head of the renowned nonprofit after nearly 40 years at the helm.

Bronx organization leader hangs it up.

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