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• Alex Verdugo wants to prove he can stick with Yankees as free agency looms

  30-10-2024 22:51 via amny.com
  
  BRONX, NY — Alex Verdugo realizes that his spot on the New York Yankees is anything but set next season as he faces a winter of unrestricted free agency. Still, he is keen on proving to the organization and its fans that he could be more of a well-rounded player rather than a defensive extraordinaire. 
  “As far as teammates and being with the guys, it’s been my favorite team I’ve ever played for,” Verdugo said prior to Game 5 of the World Series at Yankee S
  
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• NYC public schools to get an extra December day off, thanks to one Brooklyn student’s petition

  30-10-2024 22:30 via amny.com
  
  NYC public school kids received a very early holiday present Wednesday: an extra day off in December just before Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.
  City officials announced on Oct. 30 that public school students will get the day off on Dec. 23, which was previously listed as a school day on the 2024-2025 school year calendar. It was the only day during the week students were scheduled to have class before the start of the holiday break on Dec. 24.Young New Yorkers have one fellow student to thank
  
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• Yankees’ Carlos Rodon hoping for ‘redemption’ if World Series extends to Game 6

  30-10-2024 22:17 via amny.com
  
  BRONX, NY — New York Yankees starting pitcher Carlos Rodon is champing at the bit to get another crack at the Los Angeles Dodgers after he was tagged for four runs on six hits with three home runs, including back-to-back jacks from Teoscar Hernandez and Freddie Freeman in a 4-2 Game 2 loss. 
  Should the Yankees handle business behind a gem from Gerrit Cole on Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium, Rodon will get that opportunity for Game 6 on Friday in Los Angeles.
  “Redemption w
  
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• Report: 2023 was a landmark year for development in the Bronx, 10K housing units added

  30-10-2024 21:45 via bxtimes.com
  
  More than 10,000 new units of residential housing were developed in the Bronx last year, according to a real estate development report released Monday by Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson.
  The report, titled the 2023 Annual Development Report, noted a record $4.3 billion investment in new real estate projects last year—across 357 individual properties—including $1.5 billion in residential projects and $1.7 million in mixed-use developments.
  The uptick in development occurred
  
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• Youth basketball alliance aims to nurture Bronx talent amid rising sports barriers

  30-10-2024 20:43 via bxtimes.com
  
  Watch out, New York Liberty and Knicks — some city youth basketball teams are partnering up across boroughs to cultivate your future homegrown competition. 
  Mo’Motion, founded by Maureen “Mo” Holohan in 2009 as part of the Gotham Basketball Association, remains the city’s only woman-run co-ed youth basketball program. But while Mo’ Motion mainly serves youth from the Upper West Side and Harlem, it partners with Bronx-based nonprofit WHEDco to bring compet
  
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• Bronx baby horror: Newborn with umbilical cord still attached found dead behind building, sources say

  30-10-2024 20:15 via amny.com
  
  Bronx cops made the horrific discovery of a dead newborn baby, with their umbilical cord still attached, lying behind an apartment building on Wednesday morning, law enforcement sources said.
  According to police sources, officers from the 43rd Precinct responded to a 911 call at around 11:15 a.m. on Oct. 30 about an unconscious baby at 1105 St. Lawrence Ave. in Soundview.
  Upon arrival, the officers found the dead infant — described as a female — unconscious and unresponsive behind th
  
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• Juan Soto favored to re-sign with Yankees; Dodgers, Mets looming

  30-10-2024 19:47 via amny.com
  
  The Yankees are going to go from the World Series right into an offseason where their top priority will be the future of Juan Soto. 
  The All-Star right fielder is in line for a massive payday after hitting a career-high 41 home runs in his first season with the Yankees. He was traded from the San Diego Padres last winter to join Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton in the top half of a powerful Yankees lineup. 
  He could not have had a better contract year and is projected to make at least
  
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• NYC MARATHON | NYPD ramping up security to keep runners and spectators safe

  30-10-2024 19:30 via amny.com
  
  Ahead of Sunday’s TCS NYC Marathon, NYPD brass said on Wednesday that the department would step up security around the city to keep all participants safe.
  Standing in Central Park, top police officials declared that law enforcement presence will be ramped up across land, sea, and air over the weekend as locals and travelers alike are set to run the 26.2-mile route through Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx. Police say they will take extra precautions throughout the e
  
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• Kingsbridge daycare owner pleads guilty in fentanyl poisoning case that claimed toddler’s life

  30-10-2024 19:11 via bxtimes.com
  
  The owner of a Kingsbridge daycare where four children were exposed to fentanyl in 2023, leading to the tragic death of a toddler, has pleaded guilty, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams announced on Oct. 29.
  “Grei Mendez has just admitted she conspired to maintain and distribute large quantities of dangerously toxic fentanyl in a Bronx Daycare center, a place where parents expected their children would be protected and safe,” said Williams in a state
  
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• Lime offers free e-scooter rides to polling stations in Queens and Bronx through Election Day

  30-10-2024 18:51 via bxtimes.com
  
  Lime, one of three participating e-scooter companies in the DOT’s e-scooter program, is offering free rides to polling stations through Election Day on Tuesday, Nov 5. 
  The company announced on Tuesday that it is currently returning its “Lime to the Polls” program, which has now expanded to Queens riders living in the Queens e-scooter expansion zones. Riders in Queens and the Bronx can access two free 30-minute rides to help them travel to and from their polling stations b
  
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• NYC MARATHON | Central Park ceremony paints the way for runners heading to the finish line this Sunday

  30-10-2024 18:15 via amny.com
  
  Follow the blue line to the TCS NYC Marathon finish line! 
  Officials gathered in Central Park on Wednesday to paint the way leading runners to the end of Sunday’s big 26.2-mile foot race from the foot of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge on Staten Island. 
  According to the New York Road Runners Club, some 50,000 runners are expected to take on the marathon this Sunday. The race has grown from humble roots in Central Park in 1970 into a five-borough international event attracting not
  
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• Yankees believe they can ‘shock the world’ after nabbing Game 4 World Series win to keep season alive

  30-10-2024 16:43 via amny.com
  
  BRONX, NY — Yankees captain Aaron Judge and his superb media training might not tell you what the rest of his teammates are thinking. 
  The struggling slugger, who found his way on base four times in New York’s 11-4 Game 4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers to cut their World Series deficit to 3-1, will maintain that “one game at a time” approach and not veer off that path.
  His teammates, however, will. They sense that something historic might be brewing with a
  
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• Yankees were setting dangerous precedent allowing fans who interfered with Mookie Betts back for World Series before MLB stepped in

  30-10-2024 16:00 via amny.com
  
  File this under one of the more head-scratching, disturbing decisions made by the New York Yankees before Major League Baseball ultimately stepped in.
  The two fans who interfered with Mookie Betts during Game 4 of the 2024 World Series at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night told ESPN that they would be allowed back into the venue for Wednesday night’s Game 5 — a notion that was still on until roughly six hours before first pitch when the league stepped in and banned the two.
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• Yankees setting dangerous precedent allowing fans who interfered with Mookie Betts back for World Series

  30-10-2024 16:00 via amny.com
  
  File this under one of the more head-scratching, disturbing decisions and a complete failure of discipline by the New York Yankees if the rumblings are indeed true. 
  The two fans who interfered with Mookie Betts during Game 4 of the 2024 World Series at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night told ESPN that they would be allowed back into the venue for Wednesday night’s Game 5.
  Gleyber Torres led off Game 4 with a fly ball down the right field line that meandered into foul territory, but
  
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• New York City FC looks forward to Citi Field return for upcoming MLS Cup

  30-10-2024 14:51 via qns.com
  
  New York City FC (NYCFC) players and staff hope that the club’s return to Citi Field for the first time in more than two months will be a source of inspiration for the club ahead of the first round of the MLS Cup post-season playoffs against Cincinnati.
  NYCFC, who have not played a home game at Citi Field since a 2-2 tie with Chicago on Aug. 24, will take on Cincinnati in Queens on Saturday, Nov. 2, in the second game of a best-of-three series, with the other two fixtures taking place in C
  
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• Anthony Volpe’s heroics allows Yankees to take a breath in World Series

  30-10-2024 08:19 via amny.com
  
  BRONX, NY — All that talk about how the New York Yankees needed just one swing to turn things around might not be so far-fetched after all — and Anthony Volpe can be thanked for that. 
  The young Yankees shortstop had his first big Yankees moment, the kind of moment that almost seemed commonplace for his favorite player on his favorite team, Derek Jeter. 
  Staring elimination in the face within a 3-0 World Series deficit in Game 4 on Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium, Volp
  
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• Volpe’s grand slam helps Yankees stave off elimination, cruise to World Series Game 4 blowout over Dodgers

  30-10-2024 04:25 via amny.com
  
  BRONX, NY — The Yankees live to fight another day.
  Behind Anthony Volpe’s third-inning grand slam turned Game 4 of the World Series on its head, stymied what appeared to be unstoppable Los Angeles Dodgers momentum, and more importantly for the Bronx Bombers, extended their season for one more day.
  New York defeated Los Angeles 11-4 on Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium to avoid elimination while cutting their seemingly insurmountable World Series deficit to 3-games-to-1. This is th
  
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