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• Where to celebrate the 4th of July in the Bronx

  02-07-2026 21:55 via bxtimes.com
  
  Look out your window on the 4th of July and you're bound to spot fireworks lighting up the sky somewhere in the Bronx. If you're looking for more ways to celebrate Independence Day, here are a few events happening around the borough.Co-op City Live Fireworks CelebrationCo-op City Boulevard Greenway (across the Little League Field)Friday, July 3, 5 p.m.Co-op City residents will be holding a fireworks celebration featuring food vendors and music from The Unique Band, Tungsten Steele, Dany Martin &
  
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• MTA to run enhanced service to Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks, wrapping trains in American flag decals for 250th

  02-07-2026 21:00 via amny.com
  
  The MTA is running enhanced service along multiple subway lines for July 4th this Saturday, while celebrating the country's 250th birthday this year with American flag wraps on some of its trains and buses. At the same time, it is advising riders to be aware of service changes over the holiday weekend.The transit agency is boosting service across the A, C, F, 3, 4, and 6 lines during the late afternoon and early evening on Saturday to make it easier for revelers headed to the Macy's 4th of July
  
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• A Bronx guide to surviving the heat: Cooling centers, pools and more across the borough

  02-07-2026 19:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  We’re in a summer heat wave — but not the fun kind. The entire city is under an extreme heat warning until 9 p.m. on Saturday, July 4, with heat index values —the “feels like” temperature— as high as 105 to 115 degrees. This kind of extreme heat and humidity for a prolonged period is dangerous. Every year, an average of 500 New Yorkers die prematurely from heat-related illnesses, and Black and Latino residents are disproportionately affected.In respo
  
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• Bronx Times Opinion | Why I voted no on the $126 billion city budget

  02-07-2026 19:25 via bxtimes.com
  
  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once reminded us that the government has a moral obligation to serve the people, especially those who have the least. That belief has always guided my work as an elected official, and it guided my vote on New York City's $126 billion budget.Let me be clear: this budget contains meaningful investments that will improve the lives of many New Yorkers. I applaud the funding for CityFHEPS, Fair Fares, NYCHA, Crisis to Care, our parks and other initiatives that help wor
  
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• Twelve Montefiore nurses laid off to be replaced by AI, nurses’ union says

  02-07-2026 18:17 via bxtimes.com
  
  Montefiore nurses represented by the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) are furious over what they described as the layoff of 12 experienced nurses to be replaced with artificial intelligence software.Bronx elected officials joined a virtual press conference on July 1 that included NYSNA nurses, Council Member Shirley Aldebol, who chairs the labor committee, along with Assembly Members Jeffrey Dinowitz, Karines Reyes and Amanda Septimo and State Senator Nathalia Fernandez. Assembly Member
  
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• America 250: They’re still coming to America: How New York became the proud colossus of immigration in America

  02-07-2026 15:00 via amny.com
  
  New York City’s immigrants have shaped the U.S. over the last 250 years — and beyond, historians and officials say. From the days of Dutch colonists in the early 1600s to the opening of Ellis Island hundreds of years later, to the formal recognition of neighborhoods like Little Haiti in 2018, they’re coming to America — even as the federal government seems determined to stop them like never before.“When I think about America's story, I think about New York
  
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