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• PA James Speaks At VNNA Meeting

  24-05-2018 06:00 via bxtimes.com
  See this story at BxTimes.com.By Robert WirsingBronx TimesPublic Advocate Letitia James was the guest speaker at the Van Nest Neighborhood Alliance’s monthly meeting on Monday, May 7 at the Msgr. Fiorentino Apartments.
  
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• Freshly Baked, Bronx’s sixth dispensary, opens on Arthur Avenue

  13-05-2024 23:08 via bxtimes.com
  
  The Bronx’s sixth legal cannabis dispensary opened on the historic Arthur Avenue in Little Italy on Saturday after a soft opening earlier in the week. 
  Freshly Baked NYC, located at 2375 Arthur Ave. in Belmont, propped open its doors in the old Fabco Shoes on May 11 — a staple of the neighborhood for decades that has open space and floor-to-ceiling windows, allowing passersby to see everything inside. Now, that includes cannabis of all types from flower and edibles to cartridges
  
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• Bronx arrest warrant leads cops to 25-pound stash of fentanyl and cocaine in apartment

  13-05-2024 22:30 via amny.com
  
  Two people were arrested after federal and local law enforcement agents found more than 25 pounds of suspected fentanyl and cocaine in a Bronx apartment last week, NYC Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan announced Monday.
  Agents discovered the drugs — and $100,000 in cash — when they were executing an unrelated fugitive arrest warrant at a sixth-floor apartment inside 536 Kappock St. in Spuyten Duyvil on May 8.
  “New York City continues to be a regional hub of narcotics
  
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• ‘Day Without Child Care’ march in Manhattan sees advocates urge Hochul for greater program funding

  13-05-2024 21:45 via amny.com
  
  Nearly 100 advocates for government-funded child care programs marched to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Manhattan office on Monday to shed light on the lack of funding for such services in NYC.
  Child care providers, parents and supporters walked from Bryant Park to the governor’s Midtown office at 633 Third Avenue as part of the third-annual nationwide Day Without Child Care event. At this year’s march in NYC, themed Imagine a Day Without Child Care, participants marched in opposition to
  
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• Boy’s not a liar: MTA selling Ice Spice MetroCards to commemorate Bronx rapper’s forthcoming debut album

  13-05-2024 21:10 via bxtimes.com
  
  The MTA is selling commemorative MetroCards honoring Bronx hometown rapper Ice Spice ahead of the release of her debut album later this year.The transit agency is selling 50,000 limited-edition MetroCards bearing the 24-year-old rapper’s likeness at four stations in Manhattan and the Bronx starting May 13.
  Two of the stations are Fordham Road on the 4 and B/D lines, near where the rapper — whose birth name is Isis Gaston — grew up. The other two are 34th Street-Penn Station and
  
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• Grubhub launches grants to help restaurants reduce stove emissions

  13-05-2024 20:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  Recently-announced grants totaling $500,000 will help New York City restaurant owners tackle an important but costly challenge — making their spaces more eco-friendly. 
  The Grubhub Community Fund and the Greg Hill Foundation’s Restaurant Strong Fund have teamed up to award up to $5,000 to independent restaurants that need to renovate to comply with new Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) rules requiring city restaurants to reduce carbon emissions.
  Although the grant may
  
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• Local women to be honored at June 25 Power Women of the Bronx event

  13-05-2024 20:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  On June 25, 2024, Power Women of the Bronx will celebrate its 30th anniversary with “The Ultimate Networking Event” at Villa Barone Manor. Honorees will dance down the red carpet with their colleagues and community in attendance.
  The event will honor the accomplishments of Bronx women leaders while building meaningful connections to foster continued success.
  “In one evening, women are able to meet like-minded women to do business and build community,” said Elizabeth Schne
  
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• Colummn | Bronx Ball to honor borough’s artistic history

  13-05-2024 19:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  The Bronx is known for being a place where all forms of art can flourish — it’s the home of the Kreate Hub, where artists of all mediums can rent studios to work in. There are several museums, like the Bronx Museum of Art. The Bronx is also the birthplace of hip-hop, and many famous musical artists have roots in the borough.
  The Bronx Walk of Fame, which honors Bronxites who have become leaders in their field and influenced society with their works, includes all kinds of creatives. S
  
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• BP Gibson, BXEDC announce new microloan program for small businesses

  13-05-2024 18:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  On Friday, May 10, Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson and the Bronx Economic Development Corporation (BXEDC) announced a new microloan program for small businesses. The new loan program builds on the borough president and BXEDC’s commitment to support the growing small business sector in the Bronx, and follows a $10MM loan program announced last fall.
  “The Bronx is open for business,” Gibson said. “These microloans will give our small business owners the capital th
  
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• 9/11 Memorial and Museum president visits NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi memorial

  13-05-2024 17:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  On May 2, 9/11 Memorial and Museum President and CEO Elizabeth Hillman visited NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi’s Sept. 11 Memorial, one of the few standing memorials in the Bronx commemorating the lives loss on that tragic day. 
  The memorial was built in 2004 and was funded by a grant secured by former State Senator Guy Velella.
  
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• Not on My Watch celebrates young women at Debutante Ball

  13-05-2024 17:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  On April 28, Not On My Watch, Inc. held its Debutante Ball in honor of its young women. The keynote speaker at the event was NYPD First Deputy Commissioner Tania Kinsella.
  Pamela Damon and Tania Kinsella, NYPD first deputy commissioner, in a group photo with the young ladies of Not On My Watch(NOMW), Inc.Photo Jewel Webber
  Pamela Damon with Alina Dowe, Bronx borough director at the Mayor’s Office of the Community Affairs UnitPhoto Jewel Webber
  There were also scholarships presented by Al E
  
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• Hostos Community College teams up with Asian American Federation to combat anti-Asian hate

  13-05-2024 16:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  On Wednesday, May 8, the Hostos Anti-Hate Initiative’s series of events concluded for the year with a timely and thought-provoking presentation on Anti-Asian Hate and Mental Health by the Asian American Federation’s Associate Director of Programs Daphne Thammasila.
  Given widespread speculation about the potential Chinese origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, the nation saw an alarming rise in anti-Asian violence and harassment, often indiscriminately targeting people of any Asian backgro
  
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• Bronx County Fair returns to Throggs Neck after five-year hiatus

  13-05-2024 13:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  After a five-year hiatus, the Bronx County Fair returned to New York City’s most northern borough last week. The event took place from May 7 through May 13 in Ferry Point Park in Throggs Neck.
  Unlike typical county fairs, the Bronx County Fair didn’t feature bake-offs, arts and crafts, pie-eating contests or animals, but had its share of carnival rides like the fan-favorite Alien Abduction, a Ferris wheel overlooking the Whitestone Bridge and the Sea Ray, a spectacular giant swinging
  
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• Ice Spice MetroCards available to commemorate Bronx rapper’s forthcoming debut album

  12-05-2024 21:15 via amny.com
  
  The MTA is selling commemorative MetroCards honoring Bronx hometown rapper Ice Spice ahead of the release of her debut album later this year.
  The transit agency is selling 50,000 limited-edition MetroCards bearing the 24-year-old rapper’s likeness at four stations in Manhattan and the Bronx starting Monday, May 13.
  Two of the stations are Fordham Road on the 4 and B/D lines, near where the rapper — whose birth name is Isis Gaston — grew up. The other two are 34th Street-Penn St
  
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• Students in shelter-based culinary program serve Mothers’ Day luncheon for homeless moms

  12-05-2024 16:12 via bxtimes.com
  
  One of the borough’s most state-of-the-art culinary kitchens is not in a high-end restaurant but inside Allie’s Place, a shelter for homeless families in the Soundview neighborhood of the Bronx. 
  At Allie’s Place Center for Culinary Education and Employment, shelter residents — and anyone else in the city — can learn everything they need to begin a restaurant career, all for free. 
  On May 10, students in the program hosted a multi-course Mothers’ Day
  
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• Bronx man shot dead in cold-blooded killing steps away from his home

  12-05-2024 15:25 via amny.com
  
  Police in the Bronx are looking for the killer who gunned down a man outside an apartment building late on Saturday night.
  Law enforcement sources said the shooting happened at about 10:53 p.m. on May 11 at 690 Allerton Ave. in Allerton.
  Officers from the 49th Precinct, in responding to a 911 call about the incident, found 25-year-old Daniel Lachatel outside the location with a bullet wound to his head.
  Lachatel, who resided at the apartment building, was pronounced dead by EMS units who respond
  
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• Gerrit Cole update: Yankees ace inching toward return after 3rd bullpen session

  12-05-2024 13:07 via amny.com
  
  New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole threw 29 pitches during his third bullpen session since injuring his elbow in spring training on Saturday, the Yankees revealed.
  In an important next step of his rehab, the 33-year-old right-hander began instituting breaking pitches — 13 curveballs — back into his repertoire. His fastball reached 89 mph as he also continues to ramp up his velocity. “Fastball profiles were good,” Cole told reporters after his work down in St. Petersbur
  
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• PHOTOS | BronxWorks Lifting Lives Gala

  11-05-2024 16:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  BronxWorks hosts its annual gala at the New York Botanical Garden on Thursday, May 9, 2024. Eileen Torres, the CEO of BronxWorks, said “If you come to our agency, our hope, our true true hope, is that there is absolutely no wrong door. And families come in all shapes and sizes. Whether they live in the Bronx their entire lives or they just immigrated to the United States, it’s our mission to feed, shelter, teach and support our Bronx neighbors to build a stronger community.” Ph
  
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• Mott Haven tenants triumph over landlord, regain cooking gas after 16 months

  10-05-2024 22:42 via bxtimes.com
  
  Residents of 230 Brook Ave. in the South Bronx are celebrating a successful organizing effort that led to the reinstatement of their cooking gas following a 16-month outage.
  When the gas was initially shut off, it didn’t seem like there would be a long-term problem, said a 60-year-old tenant who spoke with the Bronx Times but did not want his name published for fear of backlash from the management company, Langsam Property Services Corporation. The Bronx Times contacted the company but did
  
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• BREAKING: Police identify suspect in horrific Bronx rape involving victim dragged down street with belt

  10-05-2024 22:22 via amny.com
  
  Police have identified the man wanted for a brutal rape in the Bronx, where the suspect is seen wrapping a belt around the victim’s neck and dragging her down the street before engaging in a disturbing sexual act.
  According to Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny, cops are looking for 39-year-old Kashaan Parks, who police believe used a belt to choke out a 45-year-old woman on 152nd Street and 3rd Avenue before dragging her between two parked cars on May 1 and raping her. With the suspect iden
  
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• BREAKING: Police identify suspect in horrific Bronx rape involving victim dragged by belt

  10-05-2024 22:22 via amny.com
  
  Police have identified the man wanted for a brutal rape in the Bronx, where the suspect is seen wrapping a belt around the victim’s neck and dragging her down the street before engaging in a disturbing sexual act.
  According to Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny, cops are looking for 39-year-old Kashaan Parks, who police believe used a belt to choke out a 45-year-old woman on 152nd Street and 3rd Avenue before dragging her between two parked cars on May 1 and raping her. With the suspect iden
  
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• BREAKING: Police identify man believed to be Bronx belt rapist

  10-05-2024 22:22 via amny.com
  
  Police say they have identified the man responsible for the brutal, viral rape in the Bronx in which the monster wrapped a belt around his victim’s neck.
  According to Chief of Patrol Joseph Kenny, cops are looking for 39-year-old Kashaan Parks, who police believe used a belt to choke out at a 45-year-old woman on 152nd Street and 3rd Avenue before dragging her between two parked cars on May 1st and raping her. With the sicko identified, cops believe an arrest will be imminent.
  The highly d
  
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• EmblemHealth hosts grand opening of new Fordham Road location

  10-05-2024 21:24 via bxtimes.com
  
  EmblemHealth, one of the largest nonprofit health insurers in the United States, has recently announced the opening of its newest Neighborhood Care location on Fordham Road.
  The facility is in the heart of the Bronx. It provides New Yorkers 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, tr
  
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• Tenants file lawsuit against NYCHA, Disability Assistance office alleging rental discrimination during pandemic

  10-05-2024 19:35 via bxtimes.com
  
  Two city agencies have been slapped with a federal lawsuit accusing them of discriminatory rental practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  The lawsuit— filed April 30 by Fordham Law School’s Housing and Urban Law Clinic on behalf of primarily Black and Hispanic renters — accuses the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and the New York Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) of “categorically deprioritiz[ing] both occupants of government-funded s
  
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• Bronx BP hosts Bronx Week Labor Breakfast

  10-05-2024 18:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  On May 9, Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson hosted this year’s Bronx Week Labor Breakfast. This year’s co-sponsor was LiUNA!
  The event honored Jeff Crews, IATSE Local 1; Carl Johnson Jr., Plumbers Local Union No. 1; Victor Nieves, Carpenters Union Local 212; Julio Romero, TWU Local 106; William Woodruff, United Federation of Teachers, as well as having the chair of the state Senate’s labor committee, New York State Sen. Jessica Ramos — as this year’s keynote sp
  
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• Saint Barnabas High School hosts mental health symposium

  10-05-2024 16:22 via bxtimes.com
  
  An enlightening assembly hosted by the  Saint Barnabas High School National Honor Society and the Albanian Club, took place on April 30. The gathering explored the profound effects of stress and trauma on the body and anxiety, which often occurs during the teenage years.  
  Two accomplished professionals in coordination with the American Albanian Educators Association spoke with the Saint Barnabas student body, faculty, and administration. Dr. Jackie Rukaj and Doctor of Psychology
  
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• Op-Ed | Ritchie Torres is right. To help vulnerable communities, policymakers must embrace crypto

  10-05-2024 16:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  “Blockchain technology can liberate the lowest income communities from the high fees of the traditional financial system,” Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-Bronx) said at a policy forum last year.
  He’s right. So, why haven’t more of our government leaders – from City Council to Congress – embraced this technology’s potential? Unfortunately, negative headlines, misinformation, and bad actors have led policymakers to blacklist this te
  
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• Cops release new images of Bronx monster who choked woman with a belt before raping her between parked cars

  10-05-2024 14:51 via amny.com
  
  Police have released new images of the sicko who used a belt to lasso a woman around the neck before dragging her between two cars in the Bronx earlier this week and brutally raping her in one of the most disturbing acts of sexual assault caught on tape in years.
  The highly disturbing footage has gone viral online and outraged many due to its horrific nature, resulting in a public outcry for the perpetrator to be apprehended.
  The vicious attack took place at around 5 a.m. on May 1, when a 45-yea
  
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• Man and woman in Bronx found shot to death in possible murder-suicide: cops

  09-05-2024 22:30 via amny.com
  
  Police in the Bronx found two people shot to death inside a home on Thursday afternoon in a possible murder-suicide, authorities reported.
  According to police sources, the victims — a 24-year-old man and a woman in her 20s — were found by 46th Precinct officers unresponsive inside 1697 Davidson Avenue in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx at around 1:39 p.m. on May 9.
  Both victims were discovered with gunshot wounds to their heads. EMS pronounced them dead at the scene; their id
  
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• Report from Lander suggests NYC’s migrant shelter stay limit enforced in ‘haphazard’ fashion, ‘disregarded humanity’

  09-05-2024 22:20 via amny.com
  
  City Comptroller Brad Lander on Thursday excoriated Mayor Eric Adams’ 60-day shelter stay limit for migrants in a new report finding the policy has been implemented in a “haphazard and arbitrary” fashion, without proper guidelines or staffing.
  Lander, during a May 9 news conference outside the Row Hotel migrant shelter, said that the policy did not live up to its own goals.
  “This is not a policy designed or implemented to help families achieve stable housing and self-suff
  
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