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• Affordable housing lottery opens for Norwood apartments, $2,400 for 1 bedroom

  16-09-2024 22:04 via bxtimes.com
  
  An affordable housing lottery has been launched for 3056 Decatur Ave., a newly constructed four-story residential building in the Norwood section of the Bronx.
  Designed by Node Architecture and developed by Zef Perperpaj, the building features nine residences with three of the units being classified by the city as “affordable.” All three of the affordable units are one-bedroom apartments.
  The available units are set aside for households earning 130 percent of the area median income (
  
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• New York voter registration deadline is Oct. 26. Here’s what you need to know to sign up.

  16-09-2024 22:00 via amny.com
  
  There’s a presidential election in November. Are you registered to vote? If not, here is your reminder to do so before the deadline approaches.Eligible New Yorkers have until Saturday, Oct. 26, to register to vote in the general election on Nov. 5.Oct. 26 also marks the start of early voting, which runs daily through Nov. 3. New Yorkers can find their early voting site and hours online at findmypollsite.vote.nyc.  
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• What’s happening | Parties, festivals and more

  16-09-2024 21:28 via bxtimes.com
  
  NYC Parks Presents: Skate Party in the Park
  Friday, Sept. 20, 3-6 p.m.
  Basketball Courts in Caserta Playground
  Free
  NYC Parks and Bronx Council Member Amanda Farias will be hosting this special afternoon event, which will be full of skating, music and dancing. Attendees are invited to bring their own skates, but there will be free pairs on hand while supplies last.
  For more information, go to https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2024/09/20/nyc-parks-presents-skate-party-in-the-bronx.
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• Monroe College changes name to Monroe University

  16-09-2024 21:25 via bxtimes.com
  
  Monroe College, which was originally founded in 1933 and has a campus in Kingsbridge, now has a new name: Monroe University. 
  The change, recently granted by the New York State Education Department, better reflects Monroe’s range of undergraduate and graduate educational offerings and maintains more consistent terminology among international audiences, said President Marc Jerome in an interview with the Bronx Times. 
  While the logistics of updating the school’s name in all
  
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• R.A.I.N. hosts 60th anniversary gala

  16-09-2024 21:20 via bxtimes.com
  
  The Bronx-based multi-service agency R.A.I.N. held a gala celebrating its 60th anniversary at Marina Del Rey in the Bronx on Thursday, Sept. 12.
  R.A.I.N. hosted its 60th anniversary legacy gala, featuring a mini fashion show, at Marina Del Rey in the Bronx on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. Photo by Paul Frangipane
  Photo by Paul Frangipane
  The main mission of the organization is to enhance the well-being and quality of life for those of all ages in need of help by meeting their interim needs. The agen
  
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• Kingsbridge street co-named for Nicholas Dominici, who died following day care fentanyl exposure

  16-09-2024 19:53 via bxtimes.com
  
  Street co-naming ceremonies usually honor New Yorkers who led long, fruitful lives of service to their communities. But on Sept. 15, Bronx neighbors and elected officials gathered to unveil a street sign for Nicholas Feliz Dominici, who was just a toddler when he died Sept. 15, 2023, after being exposed to fentanyl at his Kingsbridge day care.
  The intersection of Kingsbridge Road and Kingsbridge Terrace is now marked Nicholas Otoniel Feliz Dominici Way. His death, at the age of 1, along with inj
  
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• Column: BICNY becomes advisory partner to Fordham University on EPA grant

  16-09-2024 17:48 via bxtimes.com
  
  The Business Initiative Corporation of New York (BICNY), a non-profit lender based in the Bronx that aims to support economic development, is excited to serve as an advisory partner to Fordham University as it works on a new project as part of its environmental justice program. The project is called “Flourishing in Community” and has been selected to be funded by a $50 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
  The grant specifically prioritizes unrepresented group
  
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• Bronx Youth Empowerment Program hosts 14th annual ‘Out of the Pool Back to School Recreation Day’

  16-09-2024 17:19 via bxtimes.com
  
  The Bronx Youth Empowerment Program hosted its 14th annual “Out of the Pool Back to School Recreation Day” on Friday, Sept. 13.
  Bronx Youth Empowerment Program Director Andy King (back row, orange glasses) with Bronx Youth Empowerment Program staff members and youth and members of the NYPD. Photo by Jewel Webber
  Through this event, community members enjoyed playground activities, contests, food, treats, backpack giveaways, resources and much more.
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• MTA expands traffic enforcement on several Bronx bus routes, offending drivers to receive warnings first

  16-09-2024 15:32 via bxtimes.com
  
  The MTA started handing out warnings to drivers on Monday along 10 bus routes with Automated Camera Enforcement (ACE), which is designed to combat illegal parking or blocking of bus stops.
  The 60-day warning period began on Sept. 16 on the Bx28, Bx35, Bx38, B35, B41, B42, M101, Q43, S46, and S79-SBS. Buses on these routes are equipped with ACE cameras that automatically detect illegally parked or illegally standing vehicles in bus lanes, capture the license plate numbers, and issue warnings to d
  
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• Man killed in Bronx double shooting amid borough’s ongoing gun violence

  16-09-2024 15:12 via bxtimes.com
  
  A double shooting in the Bronx left one man dead and another man injured on Saturday night as gun violence tormented the borough this weekend.
  According to police sources, officers from the 44th Precinct rushed to Sheridan Avenue and McClellan Street in Grand Concourse at around 10:35 p.m. on Sept. 14 after bullets began flying.
  Arriving officers found 31-year-old Sakou Saho, of Mott Haven, with multiple gunshot wounds to the torso and a 49-year-old man with a graze wound to his stomach.
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• MTA expands traffic enforcement program on 20 new bus routes this month, with offending drivers getting warnings first

  16-09-2024 14:15 via amny.com
  
  The MTA started handing out warnings to drivers on Monday along 10 bus routes with Automated Camera Enforcement (ACE), which is designed to combat illegal parking or blocking of bus stops.
  The 60-day warning period began on Sept. 16 on the Bx28, Bx35, Bx38, B35, B41, B42, M101, Q43, S46, and S79-SBS. Buses on these routes are equipped with ACE cameras that automatically detect illegally parked or illegally standing vehicles in bus lanes, capture the license plate numbers, and issue warnings to d
  
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