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• Suspects wanted in Bronx subway robbery: NYPD seeks public’s help

  16-10-2024 21:43 via bxtimes.com
  
  Two suspects are wanted in connection with a robbery on a Bronx subway early Monday morning, and the NYPD is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying them.
  The suspects approached a 30-year-old man on a northbound “6” train near the Cypress Avenue station on Oct. 14, at around 3:50 a.m. One of the suspects, armed with a bat, threatened the victim and demanded his belongings. The other suspect stole the victim’s bicycle. Both suspects fled the train at the East 14
  
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• Op-ed: The most important vote US Jews will ever cast

  16-10-2024 19:45 via qns.com
  
  With Israel in peril and the Jewish community under attack, we need a president with a commitment to democratic norms.
  In my 50-plus years as a Jewish community leader, I have shared opinions and made calls to action on many issues affecting the Jewish people involving both civil and human rights issues. The one opinion I had always kept to myself was who to vote for. That was until four years ago when, for the first time, I endorsed President Joe Biden. Former President Trump’s first term
  
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• Montefiore Medical Center announces new grant to address Bronx HIV care

  16-10-2024 17:39 via bxtimes.com
  
  Montefiore Medical Center announced Oct. 14 that it has been awarded a $2.5 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HSRA) to help patients address challenges and barriers to HIV care.
  The Bronx Health Outcomes Project, established through the grant, will develop a new model for connecting people living with HIV to resources for issues that compound negative health outcomes like poverty, food insecurity and intimate partner violence.
  The Bronx consistently has the hig
  
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• Nearly $3,100 to rent an ‘affordable’ Bronx studio; city launches housing lottery for units in Fordham apartment building

  16-10-2024 17:35 via bxtimes.com
  
  New York City has launched a housing lottery for 20 units in a 5-story residential building at 114 East 198th St. in the Fordham section of the Bronx.
  The building consists of 20 units, all of which have been set aside for those earning 130% of the area median income. Seventeen of these units are studios, with a monthly rent of $3,069.
  The studios are meant for up to two people in each unit, with a combined annual salary ranging from $105,223-$161,590. The remaining three units are one-bedroom a
  
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• Aaron Judge’s breakout makes cruising Yankees all the more dangerous in ALCS, beyond

  16-10-2024 16:56 via amny.com
  
  With one on and one out in the bottom of the seventh inning, the 47,000 spectators at Yankee Stadium finally rose for the Judge, as Yankees captain Aaron Judge connected on his first home run of the postseason during a 6-3 Game 2 win in the ALCS over the Cleveland Guardians, a homer that was a long time coming for the heavy 2024 AL MVP favorite.
  “I was excited it went out,” Judge said. “You never know on these windy, chilly nights what that ball is going to do when you hit the
  
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• City advancing proposals to cap parts of Cross Bronx Expressway, add greenspace along the way

  16-10-2024 14:59 via bxtimes.com
  
  New York is advancing proposals to cap portions of the Cross Bronx Expressway, hoping to reconnect communities separated by the road’s construction and correct historic harms wrought on Bronx communities by the Robert Moses-era highway.
  The city and state Transportation Departments (NYC DOT and NYS DOT, respectively) released a draft study Wednesday that, for the first time, specifies particular areas of the east-to-west expressway that could be covered up, connecting split communities and
  
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• Woman raped in Bronx just a block away from local police precinct: cops

  16-10-2024 14:00 via amny.com
  
  Bronx detectives need the public’s help in finding the madman who raped a woman over the weekend.
  The NYPD released on Wednesday morning images and video of the perpetrator behind the sexual assault that occurred at about 1 a.m. on Oct. 13 near the corner of Webster Avenue and East Mosholu Parkway South in Williamsbridge. The location of the attack is a block south of the 52nd Precinct‘s headquarters and a short distance from the New York Botanical Garden.
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• Aaron Judge finally homers, Yankees take commanding 2-0 ALCS lead with 6-3 win over Guardians

  16-10-2024 05:37 via amny.com
  
  Aaron Judge hit his first home run of the postseason, drove in three runs, and was at the center of Cleveland calamity, too, as the New York Yankees took a commanding 2-0 ALCS lead on Tuesday night with a 6-3 victory over the Guardians at Yankee Stadium. 
  The win came despite a shaky night from Gerrit Cole — the ace lasting just 4.1 innings in which he allowed two runs on six hits with four strikeouts and four walks. 
  He loaded the bases twice in consecutive innings, getting out
  
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• GRAND SLAM: MLB playoffs is a home run for NYC’s economy

  16-10-2024 00:00 via amny.com
  
  Having two hometown teams in the MLB playoffs is not just a win for Yankees and Mets fans, but also a home run for NYC’s economy. 
  Some New Yorkers might grimace (no pun intended) at seeing the 7 train packed on Mets game day, or the sidewalks overflowing with people outside Stan’s Sports Bar on River Avenue when the Yankees are at bat. But all of this is good economic news for Big Apple residents, whether they are baseball fans or not, according to local economic and tourism ex
  
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