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• Meet Joseph Marte, the Bronx native behind Fordham’s newest taco spot, Tacos Supreme

  26-02-2026 20:42 via bxtimes.com
  
  The scent of sizzling carne asada drifts through the doors as customers enter Tacos Supreme. Behind the counter, Joseph Marte moves with confidence as the sole person who built the restaurant from the ground up. Marte, who is Dominican and born in the Bronx, opened Tacos Supreme on Aug. 30, 2025. Before the tacos, he owned a construction company where he spent years working with Mexican people. Between construction and cooking, a deep passion emerged into a great idea.“I always had a
  
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• Opinion | When courtrooms undermine public defenders, everyone suffers

  26-02-2026 19:49 via bxtimes.com
  
  As public defenders, and especially as social workers, we bear witness to how our legal systems too often fail to treat people with basic dignity; instead criminalizing and dehumanizing them before they’ve had a chance to defend their rights or freedom.Part of our job is reminding prosecutors, juries, judges, and court personnel that the people we are representing are no different from them, and therefore deserve the same level of respect we should afford everyone.However, just as often, w
  
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• Get on your feet for Cardinal Spellman High School’s newest production

  26-02-2026 19:27 via bxtimes.com
  
  Coined as a jukebox musical, “On Your Feet!” centers on the music and life of singing sensation, Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo Garcia, better known as Gloria Estefan. The story spans from her youth as a Cuban refugee in Miami to her rise as a global pop music icon and the significant life events in between.
  The show premiered in the summer of 2015 at the Oriental Theater in Chicago to rave reviews. A few months later, it graced Broadway at the Marquis Theater and now, it makes its w
  
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• Dr. Chinyere Anyaogu’s mission to protect Black mothers in the Bronx

  26-02-2026 18:03 via bxtimes.com
  
  Black women in the United States are three to four times more likely to die in a pregnancy-related death compared to white women according to Dr. Chinyere Anyaogu, the deputy chief medical officer at Jacobi North Central and an assistant professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.In the Bronx, the disparities are even more severe due to high rates of chronic diseases, environmental hazards and socioeconomic barriers that disproportionately affect Black residents, according to data from the
  
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• Bronx Borough President hosts first-ever Lunar New Year celebration in the borough

  26-02-2026 16:50 via bxtimes.com
  
  Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson hosted the first Lunar New Year celebration in the borough Feb. 20., bringing together elected officials, seniors, and community members for a festive afternoon in the South Bronx.The afternoon featured a series of cultural performances, including a Mongolian string instrument performance, followed by Green Tara dancing, a traditional Buddhist dance, before guests gathered for a light lunch buffet featuring Chinese food.Among those in attendance were New Yo
  
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• Bronx advocates urge Mamdani to restart Tremont Avenue busway project as alternative to state Cross Bronx plan

  26-02-2026 00:00 via amny.com
  Advocates with the Stop the Cross Bronx Expansion Coalition rallied at the Bronx River Art Center on Wednesday, urging Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration to "fast-track" restarting a stalled bus lane project on Tremont Avenue as an alternative to the state's plan to repair the Cross Bronx Expressway.Siddhartha Sánchez, executive director of the Bronx River Alliance, charged that Gov. Kathy Hochul's Department of Transportation's plan to widen the expressway's shoulders would "only deep
  
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