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• Schools Chancellor Aviles-Ramos set to start citywide listening tour with parents

  14-11-2024 22:00 via amny.com
  
  Newly appointed Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos will start a five-borough listening tour next week to give parents a chance to speak directly with school leadership.
  The tour is a series of community events, one in each borough, that will provide open forums for families and the community to share feedback, insights and ideas with the chancellor and her team.
  “Through this listening tour, I hope to gain a better understanding of our communities’ concerns, feedback and ideas s
  
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• Yankees radio gets new lead voice: Dave Sims taking over for legendary John Sterling behind the mic

  14-11-2024 21:45 via amny.com
  
  Yankees radio will have a new lead voice in 2025, as longtime Seattle Mariners play-by-play announcer Dave Sims will take over for the retired legend John Sterling.
  Sims is said to be finalizing a deal with WFAN, the flagship station for Yankees baseball and host of its radio network. He’ll succeed Sterling, who had been calling Yankees games since 1989 before retiring early in the 2024 season (he did call some of the Yankees postseason games).
  Born in Philadelphia and raised in the New Yo
  
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• Tampa Bay Rays to play 2025 home games at Yankees’ spring training facilities

  14-11-2024 20:21 via amny.com
  
  The Tampa Bay Rays will play their home games in 2025 at Steinbrenner Field, the spring-training home of the New York Yankees.
  The announcement comes after the Rays’ home venue, Tropicana Field, had its roof torn off during Hurricane Milton last month. Steinbrenner Field is located in the northwest portion of Tampa and is located a short distance from Raymond James Stadium — the home of the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 
  Steinbrenner Field, an 11,000-seat stadium, provides t
  
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• NYPD and Big Ocean bring surprise K-pop experience to Bronx school for deaf children

  14-11-2024 20:11 via bxtimes.com
  
  NYPD teamed up with K-Pop boy band Big Ocean Tuesday to surprise students at St. Joseph’s School for the Deaf to empower children living with impairments. 
  Big Ocean are K-Pop’s first hard-of-hearing act who have dedicated themselves to sharing their story of resilience while also spreading awareness on hearing impairments and breaking through barriers. After learning about the NYPD’s initiatives in working with the deaf and hard-of-hearing community, and vice versa, both
  
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• From the farms on Guyana to the Boogie Down Bronx

  14-11-2024 19:55 via bxtimes.com
  
  Born in Guyana, South America, Bronx resident Dion Small wondered as a child whether he wanted to grow up to become a pilot or work with animals. He chose the latter and has spent his life helping furry creatures.
  Small, 55, of Pelham Bay, started his career at the Schwarzman Animal Medical Center (AMC) as a veterinary technology extern in 2002 – and has been with AMC ever since. Today, he is a licensed veterinary technician (LVT) and director of the cardiology, primary care, internal medi
  
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• BREAKING | Congestion pricing officially revived after five-month pause, at a 40% discount, Hochul says

  14-11-2024 18:42 via amny.com
  
  Gov. Kathy Hochul officially revived congestion pricing at a Thursday announcement. The Manhattan tolls, which will take effect at the start of 2025, were slashed by 40% from the rates that were originally approved under the paused June plan.
  The toll for most motorists entering Manhattan south of 60th Street will be reduced from $15 to $9. Rates are also set to be reduced across the board by 40%, including for small and large trucks and discounts for overnight trips into the central business di
  
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• Congestion pricing officially revived after five-month pause, at a 40% discount, Hochul says

  14-11-2024 18:40 via amny.com
  
  Gov. Kathy Hochul officially revived congestion pricing at a Thursday announcement. The Manhattan tolls, which will take effect at the start of 2025, were slashed by 40% from the rates that were originally approved under the paused June plan.
  The toll for most motorists entering Manhattan south of 60th Street will be reduced from $15 to $9. Rates are also set to be reduced across the board by 40%, including for small and large trucks, discounts for overnight trips into the central business distr
  
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• Bronx tenants rally after two weeks without cooking gas, alleging years of neglect

  14-11-2024 16:38 via bxtimes.com
  
  Frustrated tenants at two rent-stabilized buildings in Claremont rallied on Tuesday to protest their landlord, demanding action after enduring two weeks without cooking gas.
  The gas cutoff marked a breaking point for tenants, who accuse building owner David Tennenbaum of years of dangerous neglect and mismanagement.
  Tenant Sandro de la Cruz, who lives in one of the two affected buildings on Findlay Avenue, said that the situation with the gas has forced him to find other ways to feed his family.
  
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