Cambria-Heights News

Years of littering and swarms of rude visitors has a group of Cambria Heights residents fighting an Orthodox Jewish synagogue's plan to expand.

Laura Kusisto reports: "A developer will break ground Friday on a modest 49-unit development in the Morrisania section of the Bronx that some hope has greater significance: as a model for building public housing despite funding constraints.

The Ohel Chabad Lubavitch in Cambria Heights has a proposal before the city Board of Standards and Appeals to build dorm rooms to accommodate visitors to the Rebbe Menachem Schneerson's grave.

A trial date has been set for the Sky Express bus driver charged in a crash that killed four passengers.

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