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• Bronx ambulance drives off after striking assault victim in the middle of Mott Haven street

  29-04-2025 23:08 via bxtimes.com
  
  A Bronx ambulance driver reportedly struck an unconscious man lying in the middle of a Mott Haven street early Monday morning — and kept going without stopping to help, as first reported by the Daily News.The incident unfolded after the 37-year-old victim was knocked unconscious during a brutal road rage altercation near E. 149th Street and Brook Avenue shortly before 1 a.m., police said.Authorities said the man had crashed into the rear of another vehicle, prompting a group of individuals
  
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• Capital One Bank opens new café on Fordham Road

  29-04-2025 21:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  Capital One Bank celebrated Saturday the grand opening of its new Capital One Café on Fordham Road in the West Bronx with live music and free samples of the cafe’s food and drinks.At a ribbon cutting ceremony for the café, which combines a modern coffeehouse with onsite financial services, Capital One executives presented Bronx elected officials with a check for $1 million to invest in local institutions that support small businesses in the borough.“The Bronx is full of
  
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• City begins process of converting Morris Heights homeless shelter into supportive housing

  29-04-2025 20:25 via bxtimes.com
  
  A shelter at 1605 Nelson Ave. in Morris Heights will soon undergo a major makeover as a local nonprofit and developer team up to transform it into permanent supportive housing. BronxWorks, in partnership with Slate Property Group, will convert the existing Department of Homeless Services (DHS) shelter into at least 129 affordable apartments, with 91 designated as supportive units for formerly homeless people. The gut-renovated site will also include outdoor green space, all-electric sy
  
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• Photos: Theory 9 hosts monthly food distribution outside Marie Curie High School

  29-04-2025 19:55 via bxtimes.com
  
  The Bronx-based nonprofit Theory 9 held its monthly "Food Distribution for the Community" event on Thursday, April 24, outside the Marie Curie High School for Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions, located at 120 W. 231st St.[caption id="attachment_125963" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Students, staff members, vendors and nonprofit members helped distribute bags of groceries. Photo by Jewel Webber[/caption]Numerous Bronx community members came out for the event to receive groceries. While t
  
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• Adams unveils after-school expansion and effort to make it universal, following similar plans from mayoral rivals

  29-04-2025 19:30 via amny.com
  Taking a page from his mayoral challengers' playbooks, Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday announced an expansion of the city's after-school program for elementary school students as a step toward making it free for all students who want a seat.Adams, during a Tuesday afternoon press conference at P.S. 20 Anna Silver School on Manhattan's Lower East Side, revealed that he will begin investing $331 million in his upcoming Fiscal Year 2026 Executive Budget toward adding 20,000 new after-school seats for K
  
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• Mayor Adams scores wins on discovery laws, involuntary removal changes in state budget deal

  29-04-2025 18:00 via amny.com
  Mayor Eric Adams scored two major policy wins in the month-late $254 billion state budget deal between Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York legislative leaders that she announced on Monday night.Hochul, during an April 28 news conference in Albany, revealed that the not-yet-finalized agreement on a spending plan for the coming fiscal year includes two of the mayor's top priorities: tweaks to the state's recently reformed discovery laws and changes making it easier to involuntarily hospitalize those wi
  
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• Riley and sports advocates rally for year round access to indoor basketball courts

  29-04-2025 15:16 via bxtimes.com
  
  Bronx Council Member Kevin C. Riley rallied with youth advocates and community leaders on April 23 to demand year-round access to indoor basketball courts, just hours before a key City Council Parks and Recreation Committee hearing on the issue.Riley is the sponsor of the Indoor Hoops Act, which would set the city on a path to open more indoor basketball courts like those inside NYC public schools when bad weather makes using public outdoor basketball courts difficult or on weekends.  Riley
  
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• Op-Ed | Destroying guns, protecting our city

  29-04-2025 15:00 via amny.com
  The Adams administration has been committed to public safety from the start, and getting illegal guns off our streets and out of our lives is core to that mission. Since the day I took office, the NYPD has seized more than 21,400 illegal firearms — and last week, I was able to help send many of these confiscated weapons to their final destination — a wood chipper that destroyed these guns so they can never be used to cause harm again.The Reworld facility in Westbury is where the NYPD
  
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• MTA gets the money for its five-year capital plan in late state budget agreement — thanks largely to ‘modest’ payroll tax hike

  29-04-2025 14:45 via amny.com
  New York lawmakers finally agreed on Monday to the state’s FY2026 budget, which includes an increased payroll tax to help fund the next MTA’s five-year capital plan for transit improvements.Gov. Kathy Hochul said funding for the MTA’s $68 billion plan will come through a higher payroll mobility tax (PMT) for the NYC metro area — a potential source of funding that has been considered for weeks leading up to the late budget agreement. Hochul did not say what the increa
  
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