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• DOT to unveil Harlem River Greenway route in final round of Bronx workshops

  11-03-2025 19:50 via bxtimes.com
  
  The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) will soon host the third and final round of community engagement workshops, during which it will unveil the proposed route for the Harlem River Greenway and a series of related projects.For more than two years, the DOT has collaborated with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation (NYC Parks), the Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), and local stakeholders to develop plans for a seven-mile greenway expansion. The project ai
  
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• Bronx leaders advocate for birthing center to address maternal health crisis

  11-03-2025 17:34 via bxtimes.com
  
  Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson and maternal healthcare advocates came together in Norwood on Monday to highlight the maternal health crisis in the Bronx and call for a Bronx birthing center that would provide comprehensive care for expecting mothers.Gibson, who joined advocates at the Maryam Healthcare and Wellness clinic, released a new report detailing the state of maternal health in the Bronx, which leads the city in negative birth outcomes and adverse social determinants of health
  
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• Transit officials complete federally funded study on Cross Bronx Expressway redesign

  11-03-2025 15:50 via bxtimes.com
  
  City and state officials on Monday unveiled a Cross Bronx Expressway community-driven, federally funded study on a multi-year effort to reconnect communities that have been divided by the highway for over 50 years.The NYC and NYS Departments of Transportation (NYC DOT and NYS DOT) released the study's final vision report on March 10. It includes a series of short-, middle- and long-term goals that address community-identified issues around public health, safety, open space, and traffic congestio
  
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• Op-Ed | Making our streets safer with more than 1,000 illegal guns taken off NYC streets since beginning of 2025

  11-03-2025 13:00 via amny.com
  
  Since day one, public safety has been our administration’s North Star. Our primary mission has been to create safer streets, safer subways, and a safer city for all New York families. Part of our strategy has been to zero in on removing illegal guns from our streets and out of the hands of criminals before they can cause more harm.The numbers are in, and since the start of this year, the NYPD has already helped us take more than 1,000 illegal guns off the streets. That is 1,000 weapons tha
  
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