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• Column: ‘Savor the Bronx’ restaurant week is returning — Here’s what restaurant owners should know

  08-11-2024 18:50 via bxtimes.com
  
  Savor the Bronx, an annual event that encourages people to try new restaurants and cuisines for an affordable price, will be making a return—and will take place between Feb. 18-24 next year.
  After a two-year pause, the Bronx Tourism Council and the Office of the Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson have decided to bring it back.
  If you’re not familiar with it, Savor the Bronx restaurant week is a six-day event designed to provide restaurants with a vehicle to market to potential new c
  
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• City Island dojo offers martial arts training and mentorship, shaping the next generation

  08-11-2024 18:28 via bxtimes.com
  
  People flock to City Island in the summer for its seafood and atmosphere, but it is also home to a martial arts dojo that is helping turn boys into men.
  In 2010, Pelham Bay resident Edwin Castro opened Dragons Path Academy at 229 City Island Ave. The academy offers several programs for physical fitness and instruction in the art of self-defense including Hapkido, taekwondo, kickboxing and other martial arts.
  Castro, who grew up in the South Bronx in the 1980s when the area was often in flames, f
  
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• Work experience program at New Directions Secondary School boosts attendance and empowers Bronx youth

  08-11-2024 17:04 via bxtimes.com
  
  At New Directions, a small transfer school in the Claremont neighborhood, a work experience program is spurring gains in attendance and helping young people learn valuable skills. 
  New Directions has just 140 students and is geared towards those who haven’t been successful in traditional high schools. These students are often “overage and undercredited,” meaning they should have already graduated or are significantly behind in credits towards graduation, and some are inter
  
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• Royal Coach Diner on Boston Road officially closes

  08-11-2024 16:22 via bxtimes.com
  
  The Royal Coach Diner at 3260 Boston Rd. in the Bronx has officially closed, nearly five months after its owners announced it would be closing.
  On July 20, the owners of Royal Coach Diner posted a letter on social media announcing that they would be shutting down and thanked the community for supporting their business. In the letter, they cited the COVID-19 pandemic, inflation and increasing costs as contributing factors for the restaurant’s closure.
  One of the Royal Coach Diner’s am
  
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