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• Clarisa Alayeto resumes CD8 campaign following legal challenges

  13-05-2025 23:05 via bxtimes.com
  
  Clarisa Alayeto, candidate for Council District 8 representing the South Bronx and East Harlem, has resumed her campaign after being disqualified by the Board of Elections in April following a court battle and a challenge from the Wall Street-funded group backing one of her opponents, attorney Wilfredo Lopez. Alayeto, who chairs Bronx Community Board 1, is one of several candidates vying for the council seat, which will be vacated by the term-limited Deputy Speaker Diana Ayala. The Boa
  
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• Live Nation, Lehman College and others express interest in future Kingsbridge Armory space

  13-05-2025 23:04 via bxtimes.com
  
  The future of the Kingsbridge Armory is beginning to take shape, as interested parties who want a piece of the massive 570,000-square-foot space have begun reaching out to the city-selected developer, 8th Regiment Partners, which encompasses Maddd Equities and Joy Construction LLC. While no leases or other guarantees have been signed, 8th Regiment said it has begun considering several proposals and shared details exclusively with the Bronx Times ahead of Community Board 7’s Land Use C
  
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• Catch a flick at the Bronx Library Center for the Bronx Week Film Festival

  13-05-2025 22:42 via bxtimes.com
  
  Join the Bronx Library Center on Kingsbridge Road on Saturday May 17 for a movie marathon of popular films set in the Bronx.The Bronx Week Film Festival celebrates the borough’s mark on pop culture and film throughout history. Here’s this year’s lineup:11 AM“The Warriors” (1979)Gangs from all over New York City meet for a summit in Van Cortlandt Park when a Brooklyn based gang, The Warriors, are wrongfully accused of murdering a rival gang leader. Stranded in the Br
  
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• Mayor Adams blasts investigators in dismissed corruption case, blames his dyslexia for forgetting seized cellphone passcode

  13-05-2025 22:35 via amny.com
  
  Mayor Eric Adams zeroed in on his dismissed corruption indictment on Tuesday — blasting investigators who alleged in recently-released court documents that he concealed the location of his personal cellphone, and claiming that his dyslexia caused him to forget the phone's passcode."I'm dyslexic, I forget numbers, that's a byproduct," Hizzoner said at his weekly off-topic press conference on May 12 while explaining the forgotten password. He added that he "always gives numbers to my staff."
  
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• Teen arrested after stray bullet kills 16-year-old Bronx girl outside high school

  13-05-2025 21:54 via bxtimes.com
  
  Police have arrested a 14-year-old boy accused of firing the stray bullet that fatally struck 16-year-old Evette Selena Jeffrey in the head outside a Bronx high school on Monday — a violent act that has left a family shattered and a community in mourning.Sources say members of the NYPD’s Fugitive Task Force apprehended the teenager on Tuesday morning, a day after the shooting rocked the Morrisania neighborhood. Police officials are expected to release further deta
  
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• The wrong man: Bronx native left devastated after judge denies exoneration following 30-year legal battle

  13-05-2025 17:22 via bxtimes.com
  
  Eduardo Caba was supposed to finally have a moment of salvation in a Bronx court on Monday afternoon following a three-decade legal battle over a crime he says he didn't commit — an argument that convinced prosecutors to seek his exoneration.But the proceeding turned into a nightmare for Caba when the presiding judge in the case refused to dismiss the conviction, arguing that it would set a precedent to undo scores of other convictions.Caba, 63, wept as he held his mother and siblings in t
  
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• Teen girl killed by stray bullet outside Bronx school during youth brawl

  13-05-2025 15:45 via bxtimes.com
  
  A 16-year-old girl was fatally struck by a stray bullet outside a high school in Morrisania on Monday afternoon during a violent altercation between teenagers, police said.The shooting happened shortly after 5 p.m. near Bronx Career and College Preparatory High School, located at Home Street and Tinton Avenue. Officers from the 42nd Precinct responded to a ShotSpotter activation and multiple 911 calls. The girl, who has been identified as Evette Jeffrey who lived on Tinton Avenue, was found with
  
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• Op-Ed | Our bodegas were a lifeline during COVID-19. Now, we are providing a lifeline to them.

  13-05-2025 15:00 via amny.com
  Bodegas are on every corner of New York City, there for us at all hours, and the bodegueros who service them become our family. So, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit our city, our bodegas were a lifeline to our local communities. We relied on them for toilet paper, snacks, diapers, and a sense of community at a time of extreme uncertainty.   And while New York City has seen declines in major crimes, it's important that we take additional steps to address the crimes our 
  
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• 6 million applicants for 10,000 units: Housing lottery leaves out New Yorkers most in need

  13-05-2025 14:36 via bxtimes.com
  
  New York City's housing crisis is no secret and the city's low-cost housing landscape remains extremely difficult to navigate, including a housing lottery system theoretically devised to provide a solution for the dire need for accommodation.A problem that has been brewing for decades, the housing crisis continues to get worse, with vacancy rates dropping to 1.4% citywide and under 1% for units priced $2,400 or lower, according to the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD).Mean
  
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• Teenage girl shot dead outside Bronx high school after schoolyard brawl: cops

  13-05-2025 01:05 via amny.com
  A 16-year-old girl was shot dead outside a Bronx school on Monday afternoon, police reported.According to Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, the shocking incident happened just after 5 p.m. near Bronx Career and College Preparatory High School, located at Home Street and Tinton Avenue in Morrisania.Officers from the 42nd Precinct responded to a shot spotter activation and numerous 911 calls, where they found the girl with a bullet wound to her head.EMS rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where she was p
  
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