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• 2 CI homes get landmark designations

  12-01-2018 06:00 via bxtimes.com
  See this story at BxTimes.com.By Sarah ValenzuelaBronx TimesCity Island received two more individual landmarks at the end of 2017.
  The Landmarks Preservation Commission had surveyed the area in the early 2000s in an effort to find preservation opportunities of buildings with historic or architectural significance.
  One of the homes, called the Booth House, located at 30 Centre Street, stood out because of its unique style as well as the time period it reflected, according to Kate Lemos Mchale, th
  
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• City accuses Bronx funeral home operator of exploiting grief-stricken families, ‘predatory treatment’

  02-05-2024 00:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  The city has filed suit against a funeral home operator with multiple Bronx locations, accusing it of exploiting grieving families and targeting Spanish-speaking customers.
  The Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) has accused R.G. Ortiz Funeral Home of failing to perform services requested and paid for by its clients, according to the complaint filed with the city’s Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings. The funeral home business operates four locations in the Bronx,
  
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• Community members and officers enjoy a dinner hosted by the Community Police Relations Foundation

  01-05-2024 22:45 via bxtimes.com
  
  The Community Police Relations Foundation hosted a dinner at Versa Restaurant on March 25. Bronx born and raised Founding Chairman and CEO, Al Eskanazy, was present. The CPR Foundation attendees enjoyed the togetherness, community, laughs, communication, food and more at Versa Restaurant.
  Members also celebrated their achievements in bringing together community members and police officers. CPR Foundation’s Chair of the New York Committee, Glenn Hechler, spoke on the Great Work that Eskanaz
  
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• Hochul unpacks details of major effort to combat retail theft — including tougher penalties and tax credits

  01-05-2024 22:10 via amny.com
  
  Gov. Kathy Hochul rolled out the details Wednesday of a $40 million package filled with sweeping measures, including retail-focused anti-theft teams for police, to combat rising retail theft across the state. 
  The legislation included in the recently-enacted state budget features more penalties for anyone who assaults retail workers, as well as a $5 million tax credit to help small business owners invest in security for their shops, such as through new security cameras or devices.“We&
  
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• Five Boro Bike Tour is pedaling back to NYC this weekend. Here’s what to know.

  01-05-2024 21:45 via amny.com
  
  The TD Five Boro Bike Tour, the nation’s biggest communal bike ride, is returning to the Big Apple this weekend for its 46th iteration through the streets of all five New York City boroughs.
  Forecasters are predicting a wet and rainy day on Sunday, May 5, but that won’t stop about 30,000 cyclists from getting on two wheels and pedaling along the 40-mile course, which begins in Manhattan, grazes the Bronx, returns to Manhattan, then travels through Queens and Brooklyn before ending on
  
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• Despite cold stretch, Yankees showing more composure at plate as approaches change

  01-05-2024 20:57 via amny.com
  
  After scoring a combined 36 runs in three games against the Milwaukee Brewers, the Yankees offense has hit a cold stretch against their division foe, the Baltimore Orioles. The Bronx Bombers have been held to two runs over the last two games entering Wednesday night’s action, their worst stretch of the season thus far.
  “It’s baseball, at the end of the day we’re all grinding, we’re all trying to get some runs on the board,” Juan Soto said (h/t YES Network). &l
  
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• Yankees offense searching for consistency after losing top spot in AL East

  01-05-2024 20:49 via amny.com
  
  Baseball is a funny sport. In the first week of the 2024 campaign, the Houston Astros went from getting swept during opening weekend — giving up a total of 21 runs in four games — to throwing a no-hitter in game five of 162, and then continuing their worst start to a season since 1969.
  The Yankees are experiencing a similar phenomenon, most recently highlighted by the fact that they went from scoring 15 runs in a blowout win over the Milwaukee Brewers to getting shut out 24 hours lat
  
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• Fair Fares transit discount program finally compatible with OMNY for trial period

  01-05-2024 19:15 via amny.com
  
  MTA riders using Fair Fares can finally start tapping into the discounted system using OMNY, with the transit agency and the city’s Social Services department launching a pilot program this week for select users of the low-income transit program.
  Fair Fares users, who are eligible for a half-price discount on transit fares if they make less than 120% of the federal poverty line, have thus far been shut out of the tap-to-pay system that will ultimately replace the MetroCard on the city&rsqu
  
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• Police Beat | Burglaries, robberies and rape incidents spike in several Bronx precincts

  01-05-2024 19:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  Burglaries, rapes and robberies all spiked by over 100% in several Bronx police precincts, according to the NYPD’s latest crime stats released April 29.
  The 42nd Precinct, including Claremont, Crotona Park East and Crotona Park, jumped from 12 burglaries during this same 28-day period last year to 25 this year, representing a 108.3% spike. However, the only other crimes that increased in this precinct were felony assaults and grand larcenies, which rose by 30.4% and 43.3%, respectively.
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• What’s Happening | Outdoor movies, wildlife festivals and more!

  01-05-2024 18:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  Movies Under the Stars: ‘Elemental’
  Friday, May 10, from 8 to 10 p.m.
  P.O. Serrano Playground
  2125 Turnbull Ave.
  Free admission.
  Grab a blanket and come enjoy a movie in a neighborhood playground! This summer, NYC Parks and The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment will host family-friendly movie showings across the five boroughs.
  Element City, where fire, water, land and air residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman, w
  
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• NYC Parks launches new office on Jamaica Bay to keep city waterway safe from derelict vessels

  01-05-2024 18:00 via qns.com
  
  NYC Parks recently began removing abandoned boats from the waters off City Island in the Bronx under the auspices of its new Office of Marine Debris Removal and Vessel Surrendering, which opened in Brooklyn on Apr. 15.The new headquarters is at Kingsborough Community College in Manhattan Beach, across Jamaica Bay in the Rockaways. This location was chosen following legislation spearheaded by Council Member Joann Ariola, who, after discussions with local community leaders, recognized their longst
  
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• NYC rent-stabilized tenants in danger of yet another increase after Rent Guidelines Board vote

  01-05-2024 17:45 via amny.com
  
  New York City’s roughly 1 million rent-stabilized tenants could see their rents hiked by as much as 6.5%, according to preliminary ranges approved by the city’s Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) Tuesday night.
  The nine-member panel, made up entirely of Mayor Eric Adams’ appointees, advanced in a 5-2 vote (with two abstentions) on April 30 the preliminary proposal to hike rents 2% to 4.5% for one-year leases, and 4% to 6.5% for two-year leases. The proposed increases were similar to r
  
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• Police make grim discoveries of baby, man, senior woman fatally injured in separate incidents

  01-05-2024 16:47 via bxtimes.com
  
  Bronx detectives are investigating separate, deadly incidents that occurred in the Bronx on April 29 — including one involving a newborn baby.
  Officers from the 40th Precinct responded to a 911 call at 600 Bergen Ave. at approximately 4 a.m. on April 29 where they found a newborn baby unconscious and unresponsive inside the South Bronx home. EMS were on site and pronounced the baby boy dead at the scene.
  Law enforcement sources were not able to say if the baby’s parent or g
  
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• Bronx man arrested for killing his mother in their home

  01-05-2024 16:15 via amny.com
  
  Police arrested a Bronx man Tuesday evening for allegedly killing his mother the night before. 
  On Monday, April 29, at approximately 10:33 p.m., officers from the 44th Precinct responded to a 911 call of a female in need of help at 760 Grand Concourse.
  When they arrived, they found 79-year-old Francisca Trinidad unconscious and unresponsive inside her home. EMS were on site and pronounced the victim dead at the scene. 
  Trinidad’s son, 57-year-old Melvin Arias, who lives at the s
  
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• Celebrating the power of NY’s Asian American and Pacific Islander community

  01-05-2024 15:00 via politicsny.com
  
  In honor of the beginning of May, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, amNewYork Metro and PoliticsNY are honored to bring you the 2024 AAPI Power Players list, highlighting elected officials, community leaders, entrepreneurs, executives and creatives helping to shape the future of New York City.
  AAPIs are the fastest growing racial group in NYC and represent more than 30 different ethnic groups and speak more than 50 languages. 
  Given the diversity of AAPI history and
  
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• Pregnant bus drivers blast MTA over lack of reasonable accommodations

  30-04-2024 22:30 via amny.com
  
  Pregnant bus drivers working for the MTA who are suing the transit agency for allegedly skirting requirements to provide reasonable accommodations publicly blasted the authority Tuesday for its alleged failures.
  Female subway operators are entitled to take on “restricted duty” positions when they’re expecting a child, but the same rights are not extended to pregnant women who drive one of the MTA’s 6,000 city buses.
  Now, six of those women, supported by the Transport Work
  
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• Bronx youth will light up Radio City Music Hall for the Garden of Dreams talent show

  30-04-2024 22:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  For 18-year-old London Nash of Parkchester, the third time really was a charm. After auditioning in 2022 and 2023 for the Garden of Dreams talent show at Radio City Music Hall, she was finally selected this year. 
  When she heard the good news, “I was crying,” Nash told the Bronx Times.At the May 2 show, she will sing “I Am Changing,” performed by Jennifer Hudson in the movie “Dreamgirls.”
  “I think I resonate with the song completely,” Nash sai
  
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• Company behind Pelham Parkway Phase 2 reconstruction suing the city for breach of contract

  30-04-2024 22:05 via bxtimes.com
  
  The construction company hired by the city to complete Phase 2 of the Pelham Parkway reconstruction project has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the city for alleged breach of contract. 
  C.A.C. Industries, Inc., based in Long Island City, filed suit in state Supreme Court Friday seeking over $6 million in compensatory damages, arguing that it was not paid the full amount owed for the project that went years beyond its scheduled completion date. 
  The Pelham project was indeed
  
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• How NYC plans to bring hate crime prevention lessons into public school classrooms

  30-04-2024 21:45 via amny.com
  
  As hate crimes continue to surge locally and nationwide, Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday a new curriculum designed to teach public school students all about bias incidents in NYC and beyond. 
  “Teaching About Hate Crimes and their Impact” is a series of hate-crime focused lessons that teach students in grades six to 12 about hate crimes, bias and their impact on individuals and communities. 
  The city’s Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes (OPHC), along with the
  
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• Bronx Times rakes in five honors at New York Press Association awards

  30-04-2024 19:18 via bxtimes.com
  
  The Bronx Times and Bronx Times Reporter weekly newspapers won five prizes at the New York Press Association’s (NYPA) annual conference upstate last weekend — contributing to Schneps Media Group’s top finish at the contest.
  Bronx Times staffers ET Rodriguez, Mayra Kalaora, Camille Botello and Emily Swanson were recognized for stories they reported and wrote in 2023 during this year’s awards weekend in Saratoga Springs on April 26-27. The NYPA awards recognize outstan
  
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• MLB Power Rankings 5.0 (Week of April 28): Movers and shakers aplenty as Yankees, Mets fall on list

  30-04-2024 19:13 via amny.com
  
  Welcome to the fifth edition of our 2024 MLB Power Rankings where we saw the most movement, yet.
  Both New York teams sagged on our list while AL clubs like the Seattle Mariners and Minnesota Twins made some considerable moves up.
  Last year’s league champions continue to stall in neutral and there is a new team at the very bottom of our rankings.
  2024 MLB Power Rankings 5.0Atlanta Braves (Previous #1): The Braves’ machine is humming just fine despite a Monday-night collapse against th
  
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• Gunnar Henderson becomes youngest player to hit 10 homers before May 1 as Orioles defeat Yankees 2-0

  30-04-2024 16:16 via amny.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Gunnar Henderson led off the first inning with a homer to become the youngest player in major league history with 10 before May 1 and the Baltimore Orioles defeated the New York Yankees 2-0 on Monday night in the opener of a four-game series.
  Grayson Rodriguez threw 5 2/3 shutout innings for Baltimore, which won the first meeting of the season between the top two teams in the AL East.
  After fouling off the previous three pitches, the 22-year-old Henderson lined a
  
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• Deadly day in the Bronx: Cops make grim discoveries of dead baby, man fatally shot in separate incidents

  30-04-2024 15:45 via amny.com
  
  Bronx detectives are investigating separate, deadly incidents that occurred on Monday — including one involving a newborn baby.  
  Officers from the 40th Precinct responded to a 911 call at 600 Bergen Ave. at approximately 4 a.m. on April 29 where they found a newborn baby unconscious and unresponsive inside the South Bronx home. EMS were on site and pronounced the baby boy dead at the scene. 
  Law enforcement sources were not able to say if the baby’s parent or guardian
  
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• Bronx resident dubbed executive director of Inside Broadway

  30-04-2024 14:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  Bronx resident Katie McAllister has two passions in life: Broadway and arts education. In February, she was named executive director of the nonprofit Inside Broadway.
  Previously the program director of Inside Broadway for more than 17 years, McAllister will now be spearheading Inside Broadway’s programming throughout the year. The nonprofit serves over 75,000 students throughout five boroughs through the in-class residency programs, after school workshops, summer theatre camp, senior citiz
  
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• Op-ed | The fiscal year 2025 Executive Budget gets stuff done for working-class New Yorkers

  30-04-2024 14:00 via amny.com
  
  For over two years, cities across the country have struggled to respond to the aftereffects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In New York City, slowing tax revenue growth combined with low office occupancy rates, and the expiration of temporary federal stimulus dollars have put a strain on our city’s budget.
  At the same time, as we all know only too well, the pandemic exposed cracks in education, health care, and housing that urgently need to be addressed, and we faced costs related to settling lo
  
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• ‘Not your father’s bank’: Chase Community Center Branch opens on East Fordham Road

  30-04-2024 13:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  Last Friday afternoon, the hottest place to see and be seen in the Bronx was not a new club or restaurant or fancy gala — it was the new Chase Bank Grand Concourse Community Center Branch, which the company called “not your father’s bank branch.”
  On April 26, Dozens of former and current elected officials, business executives and community partners from the Hip-Hop Museum and other prominent Bronx locales — along with a steady flow of customers just doing their Frid
  
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• Column | Coming to theaters this May: the 52nd annual Bronx Ball

  29-04-2024 21:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  The 52nd Annual Bronx Ball will be taking place in a very special location: the former Whitestone Multiplex Cinema.
  The ball, which is a celebration of the Bronx Walk of Fame’s new inductees, is held in a new location each May. Located at 2505 Bruckner Blvd., the multiplex was originally opened in the 80s and closed just over a decade ago in 2013. In 2019, a warehouse replaced the theatre, and currently has a lot of open space.
  So much open space that it can be used to host the best night
  
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• Empire City Casino by MGM Resorts to host 11th annual community blood drive

  29-04-2024 20:40 via bxtimes.com
  
  Empire City Casino by MGM Resorts is once again partnering with the New York Blood Center to host a community blood drive on Thursday, May 9, from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the second floor Uptown Room at Empire City Casino. Empire City continues to host the annual blood drives to increase awareness and provide a convenient location for guests, employees and area residents to make life-saving blood donations.
  Annually, 700,000 units of blood are needed by patients, but fewer than 500,000 units are don
  
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• What does NYC’s future look like? Extremely hot and wet, a city climate report finds

  29-04-2024 19:45 via amny.com
  
  As if a 4.8 magnitude earthquake was not enough to shake things up in NYC, a new climate assessment released Monday says that NYC will be warmer and wetter, with plenty of rainy and hot days ahead — much of which can lead to intense flooding throughout the city.  
  The New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) announced its fourth full climate assessment report, dubbed NPCC4, confirming the city will be warmer with more extreme heat events. The report also indicates there will
  
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• MTA looks to beef up express bus service ahead of congestion pricing

  29-04-2024 19:25 via amny.com
  
  The MTA plans to boost service on various express bus lines in a bid to spur drivers to switch to mass transit as congestion pricing takes effect in New York City.
  Express buses with the highest weekday ridership will see additional trips per day starting in June should the plan be approved by the MTA Board this week, according to a document posted on the MTA’s website. The routes take riders from outer borough neighborhoods with comparatively scant train access, or none at all, to the hea
  
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