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• Read this week’s paper online– The Bronx Times January 3

  03-01-2025 22:13 via bxtimes.com
  
  This week's Bronx Times highlights key moments from 2024 alongside the latest borough updates, showcasing everything from inspiring community achievements to breaking news. Here's a look at the top stories:Progress in AccessibilityAfter a decade-long legal battle, the Middletown Road subway station is finally set to receive ADA-compliant elevators. This win for accessibility advocates represents a significant step forward for Bronx commuters. Read more on page 3.The Cannabis Industry: Growing Pa
  
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• Bronx Times: January 3-9 edition highlights

  03-01-2025 22:13 via bxtimes.com
  
  This week's Bronx Times highlights key moments from 2024 alongside the latest borough updates, showcasing everything from inspiring community achievements to breaking news. Here's a look at the top stories:Progress in AccessibilityAfter a decade-long legal battle, the Middletown Road subway station is finally set to receive ADA-compliant elevators. This win for accessibility advocates represents a significant step forward for Bronx commuters. Read more on page 3.The Cannabis Industry: Growing Pa
  
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• American Red Cross spent almost two weeks on Webster Avenue, serving over 4,000 meals to Bronxites after massive flood

  03-01-2025 21:47 via bxtimes.com
  
  Responders from the American Red Cross stepped in and served over 4,000 meals to Bronx residents on Webster Avenue after a massive water main break completely flooded the streets last month, destroying homes, cars and businesses, according to the organization.A total of 74 responders served the Bedford Park neighborhood for nearly two weeks, providing food, water and blankets while the city coordinated a multi-agency response to restore power, gas and water.At the peak of the flooding on Monday,
  
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• New York City’s drought watch lifted after higher rainfall and conservation efforts

  03-01-2025 21:15 via amny.com
  
  After two months of work and increased precipitation, Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Rohit T. Aggarwal announced that New York City is no longer on a drought watch.The drought watch was first issued on Nov. 2 during the driest weather spell in the city's recorded history, and was eventually elevated to a drought warning on Nov. 18 when the lack of precipitation led to unprecedented challenges, including several wildfires in the city a
  
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• Parkchester native to appear on “Deal or No Deal Island,” starts Jan. 7

  03-01-2025 20:27 via bxtimes.com
  
  Parkchester native and social worker La Shell Wooten is set to appear on season two of NBC’s reality series “Deal or No Deal Island,” competing against 14 contestants for the largest jackpot in TV history. The show premieres Tuesday, Jan. 7, although the competition took place last year.Wooten is in her 50s and was born and raised in Parkchester, keeping the same family apartment into adulthood where she raised her two sons, now in their 20s. Though she moved to North Carolina
  
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• Permits filed for expansion of 3-story residential building in Allerton

  03-01-2025 18:25 via bxtimes.com
  
  Permits have been filed for the horizontal expansion of a 3-story residential building at 2915 Holland Ave. in the Allerton neighborhood of the Bronx.The proposal calls for the property to be expanded from 2,362 square feet to 3,193 square feet. The current 27-foot-tall development has one residential unit. Under the proposed changes, seven more units would be added, bringing the total number of units to eight. With a unit scope of 399 square feet, these residences would most likely be rentals.
  
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• Optimum customers unable to watch NY sports teams amid dispute with MSG over fees

  03-01-2025 18:00 via amny.com
  
  New York sports fans who subscribe to Optimum lost access to view some of their favorite teams this week due to a spat between the cable provider and MSG Networks over fees.The fallout from the dispute leaves fans of local teams whose games are carried by MSG Networks — including the Knicks, Rangers, Islanders, and Devils — without televised access to games in the midst of the NBA and NHL seasons.Optimum, which is owned by the company Altice USA, alleged in a Dec. 31 statement that M
  
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• Bronx Community Justice Center hosts third of NYCHA housing workshop series at Mott Haven Library

  03-01-2025 17:14 via bxtimes.com
  
  The Bronx Community Justice Center, which works to make the borough safer and more equitable through community-driven public safety initiatives, hosted the third part of its NYCHA housing workshop series on Thursday, Dec. 12, at the Mott Haven Library.This workshop, which ran from 12-5 p.m. in the third-floor meeting room of the library located at 321 E. 140th St. in Mott Haven, was presented in both English and Spanish. The Bronx Community Justice Center held it in partnership with the New York
  
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• Column: Savor the Bronx restaurant week application deadline is less than one month away

  03-01-2025 16:44 via bxtimes.com
  
  Savor the Bronx is back and better than ever.While the event has been on hiatus for a few years, the Bronx Tourism Council and the Office of Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson have decided it is time for it to return. Taking place from Feb. 18-23, 2025, the restaurant week is an opportunity for all Bronx eateries to take part in.With storefronts in the Bronx being taken up largely by restaurants, according to the New York Times, the “flavors of the Bronx” are diverse as ever. The ol
  
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• Marmorato urges pause on congestion pricing launch amid legal opinion confusion

  03-01-2025 01:21 via bxtimes.com
  
  City Council Member Kristy Marmorato continued her vocal opposition to the impending congestion pricing plan after a federal judge declined to explicitly block the tolling program in a case filed by the state of New Jersey to stop it.She posted to X Wednesday a copy of a statement she and other members of the Common Sense Caucus penned, which calls the new toll - which would charge most drivers entering Manhattan below 60th Street $9 starting Sunday - a “scam tax.” The Common Sense c
  
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