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• Hunts Point Market to receive $405 million for an all-electric project to reduce pollution

  31-12-2025 23:37 via bxtimes.com
  
  The Hunts Point Market, which distributes fresh food throughout New York City and beyond, will undergo a major modernization starting in 2026, outgoing Mayor Eric Adams announced yesterday. The all-electric project will improve the market’s energy efficiency, with a goal of reducing local pollution for the 13,000 residents on the Hunts Point peninsula. Other goals include opening traffic flow, reducing truck idling, supporting the market’s more than two dozen businesses and
  
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• Just Home supportive housing project not moving to Brooklyn — at least not yet

  31-12-2025 19:50 via bxtimes.com
  
  Just Home, the supportive housing project on the Jacobi Medical Center campus for people leaving incarceration with major medical illnesses, may not be getting a new home after all. The project will not be moved to Brooklyn despite the Adams administration’s promise to relocate it before his term expired, outgoing Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro confirmed to the Bronx Times on Dec. 29. Mastro said the Adams administration made “substantial progress” towards moving Just Home
  
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• Flushing Financial merging with Ocean First

  31-12-2025 19:18 via longislandpress.com
  The old year ended with a new beginning for Long Island’s banking sector, as a major regional bank announced it is acquiring a Nassau-based financial institution.Flushing Financial, parent of Flushing Savings Bank, said it reached a deal valued at more than half a billion dollars to merge with OceanFirst Financial, parent of Ocean First Bank, creating a financial institution with $23 billion in assets.Uniondale-based Flushing will become part of Red Bank, N.J.-based OceanFirst, the sole re
  
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• Housing lottery wrapping up for nine units in Jerome Park, rent starts at $2,000

  31-12-2025 18:17 via bxtimes.com
  
  Sign up for our weekly email newsletter to stay updated on the latest housing lotteries in New York City.Just over one week remains for Bronx residents to sign up for a housing lottery for nine units at 233 E. 202nd St. in Jerome Park before it ends on Friday, Jan. 9.This 8-story residential building features 44 total housing units, with 35 being at market rate. Each of the units set aside in the housing lottery are intended for those earning 80% of the area median income and with an asset
  
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• Photos: Young Kings and Queens Chess Club hosts workshop at Albert Tuitt Sr. library

  31-12-2025 18:12 via bxtimes.com
  
  The Young Kings and Queens Chess Club hosted a chess workshop for kids from Baychester Middle School and the Academy for Scholarship and Entrepreneurship on Friday, Dec. 19, at the Albert Tuitt Sr. Educational Campus Library, located at 921 E. 228th St.[caption id="attachment_138401" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Photo by Jewel Webber[/caption]Participants of this workshop learned about chess and some strategies from Young Kings and Queens Chess Club Founder and President Romeo Davis before ha
  
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• Photos: 29th annual Pre-Kwanzaa celebration held by Coalition of African American Churches and Community Organizations of Co-op City, Inc.

  31-12-2025 15:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  The Coalition of African American Churches and Community Organizations of Co-op City, Inc., held its 29th annual Pre-Kwanzaa celebration ahead of the holiday on Saturday, Dec. 20, at the Bartow Community Center, located at 2049 Bartow Ave. in Co-Op City.The event, held in partnership with the Office of Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson, featured vendors, games, a Karamu feast and other entertainment. There was also a Griot ceremony, featuring live performances, poetry readings and more.[
  
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• 2026 PREVIEW: What will be the next stops for NYC transit in the new year?

  31-12-2025 15:00 via amny.com
  A new year brings a bevy of new possibilities and challenges for one of the world's largest public transportation systems.Among the major stories likely to drive the news in 2026 are a new mayor who has pledged to make city buses faster and free to ride; a fare increase and its fallout, the future of congestion pricing; the progression of several major transportation projects; and the MTA's continued efforts to stop fare evasion.amNewYork will be here for all of it. Here's some of what the "subw
  
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