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• Bronx Chamber of Commerce Foundation launches initiative to provide hands-on AI education

  20-01-2026 21:53 via bxtimes.com
  
  The Bronx Chamber of Commerce Foundation announced on Monday, Jan. 12, the launch of its AI Advantage Program, which will bring local entrepreneurs together for hands-on education on artificial intelligence and workforce innovation.Supported by Google, the AI Advantage Program is meant to help small business owners adopt artificial intelligence in practical, accessible and immediately useful ways via hands-on instruction, real-world use cases and expert-led training.By the end of the four-week t
  
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• NURSES STRIKE: Montefiore nurses keep picket line packed on day 8 of strike in the Bronx

  20-01-2026 18:14 via bxtimes.com
  
  Montefiore nurses continue to show strong presence at picket lines in the Bronx as the strike enters its eighth day, speaking out against the hospital system as management continues to publicly slam union nurses.Nearly 100 nurses and supporters gathered at Montefiore’s Jack D. Weiler Campus on Eastchester Road, marching with picket signs, noisemakers and whistles.While there have been no further negotiations between Montefiore Hospital System management and the nurses, who are represented
  
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• Mamdani announces “reactivation” of Just Home supportive housing at Jacobi Medical Center

  20-01-2026 15:59 via bxtimes.com
  
  Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the “reactivation” of the Just Home supportive housing development at Jacobi Medical Center on Monday, bringing an end to years of controversy surrounding the project.On the nineteenth day of his administration — and on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday — Mamdani, announced that Just Home will remain at Jacobi, rather than Brooklyn, as former Mayor Eric Adams and First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro previously promised.It also proceeds despite a
  
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• Police release more photos of suspects tied to Bronx teen’s deadly shooting in 2024

  20-01-2026 15:32 via amny.com
  Police in the Bronx have released more photos of the two suspects wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old boy in 2024.According to law enforcement sources, Alberto Roque was shot in the head on June 17, 2024, near East 162nd Street in Melrose. Police said the boy was gunned down less than a mile from where he lived on 3rd Avenue. When officers from the 42nd Precinct responded to a 911 call about the shooting, they found the young victim lying on the sidewalk, blee
  
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