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• Monroe Students Present Start-Up Ideas At United Nations

  10-02-2019 06:00 via bxtimes.com
  See this story at BxTimes.com.By Robert WirsingBronx TimesMonroe College business students Mercedes Rodriguez, Caroline Sanchez and Bryan Guzman presented their sustainable and human-centered start-up ideas at the United Nations on Friday, February 1.The students participated in non-profit 1M1B’s Future Leaders Activate Impact Summit, an annual event focused on engaging urban youth to take entrepreneurial action aligning with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.They pitched to a room full
  
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• Op-Ed | Mayor Adams’ silence on LL97 leaves building owners in the lurch

  07-05-2024 17:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  As building owners across New York City grapple with the challenges of Local Law 97 (LL97), it’s become increasingly evident that we’re in dire need of meaningful support from Mayor Eric Adams. While the state has made strides in recognizing the financial burdens and logistical hurdles posed by LL97 through the introduction of The Green Buildings Act (S943-A / A5050), the Mayor has been noticeably absent in offering concrete solutions.
  It’s time to ask the tough questions: Wher
  
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• Clay Holmes providing nostalgic dominance in Yankees’ closer role

  07-05-2024 16:17 via amny.com
  
  Mariano Rivera left probably the biggest shoes in Yankees franchise history to fill. Parents told their children about Mariano Rivera’s outings. Pitchers of all levels study his mechanics like it’s scripture in hopes of replicating his results. Hitters knew the exact pitch that he was going to throw, and there was nothing they could do about it.
  Rarely did Mo give anyone the opportunity to get the better of him, because his outs came and went like clockwork. It plays into the “
  
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• Hunts Point receives six electric vehicle chargers in citywide push for green transportation

  07-05-2024 15:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  New York City government officials revealed six new electric vehicle chargers at the Bronx Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility in Hunts Point on Monday, May 6. This project, with a total investment of $415,000, marks the 2,000th citywide municipal charging port for electric vehicles (EV). 
  These EV chargers are a result of Mayor Eric Adams’ push to enrich Hunts Point in his plan, “Hunts Points Forward”, which says it will give a total of $15 million to pay for new electr
  
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• Op-Ed | Run this town: Work for city government and help write the future

  07-05-2024 14:00 via amny.com
  
  Since day one, our administration has had a clear mission: protect public safety, rebuild our economy, and make our city more livable for working-class New Yorkers. Every day, we are delivering on that vision. We have recovered all the private-sector jobs lost during the pandemic, one year ahead of schedule; overall crime is down across the city this year, and we are improving the quality of life for the 8.3 million New Yorkers who call this city home.
  At the start of our administration, more th
  
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• ‘We saw an opportunity here’: Longwood elementary school opens laundry room for families in need

  07-05-2024 13:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  When entering the Longwood Academy of Discovery in the Bronx, guests are greeted by things normally seen in elementary schools: art and informational posters on the walls, a gym full of kids playing, a security check-in table. But now, the school’s students and their families also have another, somewhat unique, resource at their disposal: a laundry room. 
  City Council Member Rafael Salamanca Jr. joined officials at the academy and New York Edge — a nonprofit that provides after
  
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• Hostos Community College receives largest endowed scholarship in school’s history

  06-05-2024 21:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  Hostos Community College recently announced the creation of the Randi Potack, Dorothy Hausberg and Judith Z. Potack Memorial Endowed Scholarship. This scholarship, established by the college’s 2023 Gala honoree Michael Potack,and his three sons and their wives, Robert (Julie), David (Samantha), and Jonathan (Erica), will ultimately total nearly half a million dollars and fund countless scholarships for students in Hostos’ registered nurse (RN) program — year after year —
  
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• NYC launches ‘Marketplace’ for new outdoor dining setups

  06-05-2024 20:05 via amny.com
  
  New York City restaurant owners can purchase components for outdoor dining setups on a dedicated online marketplace starting Monday.
  The city’s Department of Transportation (DOT) on May 6 launched the Dining Out NYC Marketplace, billed as a “one-stop shop” for restaurants to connect with vendors selling components for al fresco dining compatible with the city’s permanent outdoor dining program, which was approved last year to replace the temporary COVID-era program.
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• Bronx Center honors its director of nursing during National Nurses Week

  06-05-2024 20:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  May 6 -12, 2024 is National Nurses Week in this country, and locally, Bronx Center on Underhill Avenue in the Bronx is honoring its Director of Nursing, Narine Salomone.
  Highly respected among her peers and the staff at Bronx Center and well-liked by the residents at the 200-bed skilled nursing facility, Salomone began her time at the 200-bed skilled nursing facility in 2011 as an agency Licensed Practical Nurse then hired two years later.  With her commitment shining through, Salomone work
  
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• Bronx detectives investigating death of man in Soundview on Sunday

  06-05-2024 18:47 via bxtimes.com
  
  Detectives in the Bronx are investigating the death of a man whose body was found with severe trauma inside a residential building on Sunday.
  According to law enforcement sources, officers from the 43rd Precinct and NYPD PSA 8 responded to a 911 call of a man in need of help inside the Clason Point Gardens public housing complex at 1675 Lafayette Ave. in Soundview at approximately 2:52 p.m. on May 5.
  When they arrived, police found a 37-year-old male unconscious and unresponsive. Preli
  
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• MLB Power Rankings 6.0 (Week of May 5): There’s a new top dog, Yankees, Mets drop

  06-05-2024 18:42 via amny.com
  
  There’s a new, familiar No. 1 in our sixth MLB Power Rankings of the 2024 season, but it was not easy to get there. 
  Three teams are hitting their strides while the Yankees were bumped down a peg because of it. The same can’t be said about the other New York team, the Mets, as they are slumping — especially the offense.
  2024 MLB Power Rankings 6.0
  Los Angeles Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani celebrates with third base coach Dino Ebel (91) after hitting a home run du
  
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• Bronx mental health nurse takes patient care where it’s needed most

  06-05-2024 18:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  Bronx resident John Tawiah did not have a typical job interview for his role as a behavioral health registered nurse with VNS Health’s Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team.
  During that interview about two and a half years ago, Tawiah, 45, was sent out to the streets with the team, funded by the state’s Office of Mental Health, to meet someone in the midst of a psychiatric crisis.“I had to decide then and there if I wanted to do this,” he told the Bronx Times in an int
  
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• Column | Chip’s Sunflower Seeds: From Vermont to the Bronx

  06-05-2024 18:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  Chip’s Sunflower Seeds, founded by Oliver Pudvar and Chase Whitman in Vermont in 2022, began as a high school project and evolved into a thriving store-ready business. They mastered the Maple Syrup sunflower seed, aiming to distinguish themselves by offering a taste of Vermont with each crack. In the Fall of 2022, Oliver met Noah at Manhattan College, bonding over baseball and shared recoveries from sports injuries. Recognizing the vision, Noah joined Chip’s, and together, as college
  
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• Bronx police probe death of man found with body trauma inside residence

  06-05-2024 15:15 via amny.com
  
  Detectives in the Bronx are investigating the death of a man whose body was found with severe trauma inside a residential building on Sunday. 
  According to law enforcement sources, officers from the 43rd Precinct and NYPD PSA 8 responded to a 911 call of a man in need of help inside the Clason Point Gardens public housing complex at 1675 Lafayette Ave. in Soundview at approximately 2:52 p.m. on May 5.
  When they arrived, police found a 37-year-old male unconscious and unresponsive. Prel
  
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• Yankees beat Tigers 5-2 behind Soto’s 3-run double to finish 3-game sweep with rain-shortened win

  06-05-2024 02:11 via amny.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Juan Soto hit a three-run double that snapped a seventh-inning tie and the New York Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers 5-2 on Sunday to finish a weekend sweep with a rain-shortened win.
  Aaron Judge homered early for the Yankees off Tarik Skubal, who struck out a career-best 12 in six innings. The game was called following a 56-minute delay in the middle of the eighth after the teams played through steady showers much of the day.
  Completing a 17-day stretch without a break in t
  
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• Pedal to the mettle: TD Five Boro Bike Tour sees thousands go the distance despite the dreary weather

  05-05-2024 21:15 via amny.com
  
  The TD Five Boro Bike Tour on Sunday saw upwards of 35,000 bicyclists get rolling on the nation’s biggest communal bike ride — a 40-mile journey through all five boroughs.
  May 5 turned out to be as foggy and cool as forecasters anticipated, with light rain bookending the start and finish. The unseasonably dreary conditions didn’t stop about 30,000 cyclists from getting on two wheels and pedaling along the 40-mile course, which began in Manhattan, grazed the Bronx, returned to M
  
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• Bronx gunman jumps out of moving car, nearly shoots taxi driver in dispute: cops

  05-05-2024 16:45 via amny.com
  
  Bronx detectives are looking for the suspect who nearly shot a taxi driver following a dispute early on Friday morning.
  The NYPD released on Saturday an image of the gunslinger wanted for the attempted shooting, which occurred at about 3:56 a.m. on May 3 in the area of Bronx Boulevard and Carpenter Avenue in Olinville.
  According to law enforcement sources, the taxi driver, a 26-year-old man, had picked up the suspect moments earlier and was driving him to a location when the two men became embro
  
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• Inside the story of one Mexican restaurateur’s journey to success in the South Bronx

  05-05-2024 13:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  It’s Cinco de Mayo for the 163rd time, marking the anniversary of Mexico’s win against the French in the battle of Puebla in 1862. And while you partake in the celebrations, leave your sombreros and sarapes at home and instead, pay homage to the arduous plight so many Mexicans faced to bring you your chips and margaritas.
  “I came out of work on a Friday, I’m almost home and then he hit me and said ‘give me the f—— money’,” said Jose De Marcos
  
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• City Council seeks probe into NYPD brass’ ‘intimidating and dangerous’ social media activity

  04-05-2024 15:52 via bxtimes.com
  The City Council has called for an investigation into the use of the NYPD’s official social media accounts after some brass have used them to publicly criticize both elected officials and members of the press.
  City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (D-Queens) made the formal request to the Department of Investigation’s Office of the Inspector General (IG) for the NYPD. The request came a day after Chief of Patrol John Chell posted on X (formerly Twitter) a since-deleted post publicly cr
  
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• Bronx rally for Gaza draws dozens amid continued campus protests citywide

  04-05-2024 01:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  More than 70 people joined together at the Bronx’s Fordham Plaza Friday afternoon to protest the war in Gaza — calling out politicians including U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres and Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson by name, claiming they are complicit in genocide in Palestine. 
  With a significant NYPD presence off to the side, shouts of “From the Bronx to Gaza, globalize the intifada” and “Free Palestine” rang out at the intersection of Third Avenue and Eas
  
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• Marty Dolan officially on ballot for June Democratic primary, AOC faces challenger

  03-05-2024 22:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez officially faces a challenger in the upcoming Democratic primary. 
  Marty Dolan, 66, has received notice from the NYC Board of Elections that he will be on the ballot for the June primary against Ocasio-Cortez, who will face a primary challenger for the first time since 2020.
  Dolan, who is a retired Wall Street insurance executive, needed 1,250 signatures from registered Democrats who live in the district in order to get on the ballot — and he said he
  
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• EmblemHealth Neighborhood Care celebrates grand opening of Fordham Road location

  03-05-2024 20:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  EmblemHealth, one of the largest nonprofit health insurers in the United States, recently celebrated the opening of its new Neighborhood Care Fordham Road facility in the heart of the Bronx.  The facility will provide Bronxites with one-on-one, in-person services connecting residents with community-based resources and programs designed to improve health.
  EmblemHealth’s Neighborhood Care is a unique model that addresses the barriers to good health by providing food, housing, transporta
  
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• BP Gibson hosts Bronx Dominican Heritage Celebration at Borough Hall

  03-05-2024 18:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson joined MetroPlus Health, Montefiore Einstein, Blue York City, Anheuser Busch and others to host the Bronx Dominican Heritage Celebration and kick off the 42nd anniversary of the National Dominican Day Parade at a ceremony held May 2 in the rotunda of Bronx Borough Hall.
  Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson hosted the Bronx Dominican Heritage Celebration and kick off the 42nd anniversary of the National Dominican Day Parade at a ceremony held May 2 i
  
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• Preston High School teacher receives Guy Stella Excellence in Teaching Award

  03-05-2024 17:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  Preston High School teacher Stephanie Mozzone (’10) was honored at the 2024 FIAME Awards Dinner Dance on Friday, April 12, as the recipient of the Guy Stella Excellence in Teaching Award.
  Surrounded by family, friends and coworkers, Mozzone accepted the honor for her dedication to her students. In addition to her role as a foreign language and English teacher, Mozzone also serves as director of the Preston Scholars Program, moderator of the Spanish Honor Society and co-moderator of the Ste
  
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• Saint Barnabas High School celebrates 100 years of educating young women

  03-05-2024 16:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  On Thursday, April 25, more than 300 guests began the evening toasting Saint Barnabas High School’s 100th anniversary with champagne at the Glen Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle.
  Participants praised the all-girls college preparatory school that has graduated thousands of accomplished women. Supporters,friends, family, faculty and staff were all welcomed, while alumnae fondly shared their Barnabas memories.
  The event acknowledged those who have contributed to the school’s legacy.
  
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• Op-ed | NYC can act on affordable housing as Albany balks on greater reform

  03-05-2024 16:00 via amny.com
  
  In New York City, our affordable housing crisis is multifaceted – we have people who are struggling to maintain the homes they own, become homeowners, and even just pay their monthly rent with large increases looming every coming year.
  The long-awaited State Budget took meaningful strides to address these issues, but New Yorkers need our leaders to do more. At the City level, we believe Mayor Adams’ recently released Executive Budget didn’t include needed funding for key housin
  
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• 17-year-old girl fatally stabbed by teenager in Bronx altercation: NYPD

  03-05-2024 15:36 via amny.com
  
  A 17-year-old girl was fatally stabbed outside a Bronx apartment building Thursday afternoon, police said.
  Emery Mizell was stabbed in the chest at around 2:15 p.m. at 1105 Boynton Ave., in the Soundview section of the borough, during an argument that quickly escalated into a fight, police said.
  Mizell was transported to NYC Health and Hospitals/Jacobi in critical condition, where she was later pronounced dead.
  Police took three teenagers into custody before arresting a 15-year-old girl and char
  
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• Villa Maria Academy celebrates return of annual ‘Card Party’ in Throggs Neck

  03-05-2024 14:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  On Wednesday, April 24, 2024 Villa Maria Academy celebrated the return of its annual card party at Villa Barone Manor in Throggs Neck.
  Photo courtesy Rosemary DeLuca
  More than 450 guests attended the event, which featured a special appearance by Gene Di Napoli, New York’s favorite Elvis tribute artist.
  
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• New security cameras along East Tremont Avenue in Throggs Neck promise to keep residents safe 

  03-05-2024 13:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  The Throggs Neck Business Improvement District (TNBID) is one step closer to its goal to make Throggs Neck the safest community in New York City.
  Alongside community members, elected officials and NYPD officers, the TNBID announced the activation of long-awaited NYPD Argus cameras along East Tremont Avenue at a press conference outside the 45th Precinct in Throggs Neck on May 2.
  NYPD officers, elected officals, and Throggs Neck Business Improvement District members attend a press conference anno
  
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• ‘A groundbreaking initiative’: City’s first pet-friendly homeless shelter opens in the Bronx

  02-05-2024 22:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  Some families experiencing homelessness in the city will no longer have to choose between seeking shelter and keeping their beloved pet, thanks to a pilot program announced Thursday, May 2, by the nonprofit Urban Resource Institute. 
  The group operates the Uplift Families Residence, located at 951 Olmstead Ave. in Unionport, which has set aside five apartment-style units for a pilot of the People and Animals Living Safely (PALS) program. The organization is hoping to expand to more units in
  
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