Riverdale’s newest residents are settling into their leafy surrounds at the Van Cortlandt Motel a safe haven, for now, they hope, while they apply for asylum and seek authorization to work legally in the United States.
The threat of a gas shutdown affecting 827 units at Amalgamated Housing Corp. has seemingly dissolved overnight. Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz and state Sen. Robert Jackson succeeded in nudging state housing officials to the table Friday, May 5 for a meeting with cooperators, Con Edison, and representatives from the city’s buildings department.