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• NYC DROUGHT WARNING: Mayor Adams elevates actions to conserve water amid continued rainless streak in NYC

  18-11-2024 23:00 via amny.com
  
  Mayor Eric Adams elevated NYC’s drought watch to a warning Monday amid the city’s longest rainless streak in recorded history.Per the warning, the mayor ordered city agencies to implement various drought protocols to conserve water. Among the measures, city agencies will limit how frequently they wash their vehicles. NYC Parks will limit water use for fountains and golf courses and reduce water usage at artificial ponds and lakes unless they are habitats for fish or other wildli
  
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• BP Gibson hosts Puerto Rican Heritage Month celebration

  18-11-2024 21:17 via bxtimes.com
  
  Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson joined the Bronx Care Health System, Ponce Bank, Fidelis Care and ProHealth Connect in hosting her annual Puerto Rican Heritage Month celebration at the newly-opened 14,000-square-foot, 250-seat Bronx Music Hall, located at 438 East 163rd St. in Melrose, on Thursday, Nov. 14.
  Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson at the 2024 Puerto Rican Heritage Month celebration. Photo courtesy of the Bronx Borough President’s Office
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• Author with Bronx roots debuts new novel, “All Mixed Up,” at Pelham-Van Nest library

  18-11-2024 20:59 via bxtimes.com
  
  Author Raj Tawney, whose mother hails from the Bronx, debuted a children’s novel last week at the Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library in an event he called “sort of like homecoming.”
  “All Mixed Up,’ which will be released Nov. 26 by Paw Prints Publishing, is Tawney’s first novel targeting middle-grade students. It centers on a multi-ethnic sixth grade boy named Kamal, who lives in the suburbs of New York City and befriends a boy from Pakistan in 2002— just a
  
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• MTA Board formally approves reduced, $9 congestion pricing toll, set to start on Jan. 5

  18-11-2024 20:55 via amny.com
  
  The MTA Board on Monday approved the new, reduced congestion pricing program, setting up the hotly anticipated start of tolling for cars and trucks driving into Manhattan below 60th Street in the new year.
  The transit agency’s new congestion pricing plan will start at a $9 base toll just after midnight on Sunday, Jan. 5, with a “phased-in” approach creeping up to the originally-approved $15 rate by 2031.
  Every aspect of the program has been reduced by 40%, including truck tolls
  
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• Photos: Forum of Italian American Educators receive $10K in funding from Council Member Marmorato

  18-11-2024 20:47 via bxtimes.com
  
  The Bronx-based non-profit educational organization Forum of Italian American Educators received $10,000 in taxpayer funds from Council Member Kristy Marmorato on Thursday, Nov. 14, at the St. Clare of Assisi-St. Francis Xavier School, located at 1911 Hone Ave. in the Morris Park section of the borough.
  The funding will support the cultural and educational goals of the Forum of Italian American Educators. Founded in 1978, the organization is comprised of educators, school sup
  
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