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• Savor the Bronx kicks off week of dining deals at 40 local restaurants

  10-07-2026 23:39 via bxtimes.com
  
  This week, The Bronx Tourism Council is reintroducing Savor the Bronx, a week-long borough wide event to uplift restaurants throughout Bronx and encourage Bronxites to dine out in their community. Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson said the week is meant to highlight local businesses.
  “We want to focus on tourism and highlight our diversity and highlight the restaurants that really make a difference in the rocks,” Gibson said. The Savor the Bronx launch event was hosted
  
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• City 3-K expansion gives 1,700 families preschool seats closer to home

  10-07-2026 23:30 via amny.com
  
  Thanks to a recent expansion of 3-K seats, NYC families will save time this fall by dropping off their toddlers at preschool locations closer to home, City Hall officials said.The city announced Friday that its targeted effort to increase child care capacity in city ZIP codes with the most demand resulted in more than 1,700 families receiving offers for placements in more preferred schools.Emmy Liss, executive director of the Mayor’s Office of Child Care and Early Childhood Education, said
  
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• The Bronx is among top ten most popular cities for renters: Report

  10-07-2026 22:36 via bxtimes.com
  
  Renter engagement in the Bronx was among the most active out of the 150 biggest cities in the United States in the first quarter of 2026, according to a report by RentCafe.Based on RentCafe's Rental Engagement Tracker (REnT), which provides updates on rental demand across the 150 largest cities in the country on a quarterly basis based on the millions of interactions on RentCafe's site and is determined based on availability of apartments, listing views, apartments saved as favorites and saved p
  
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• NYC’s new ‘click-to-cancel’ rule takes effect this fall to help New Yorkers get out of a bad subscription

  10-07-2026 22:15 via amny.com
  
  New Yorkers who sign up for gym memberships, streaming services, and other recurring subscriptions must soon be allowed by law to cancel them just as easily — and through the same method they used to enroll — under a new city rule taking effect Oct. 1.The final “click-to-cancel” rule requires businesses to clearly disclose subscription terms and give customers a simple way to end automatic-renewal and continuous-service plans at any time, according to a notice of adoption
  
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• The Bronx identified as small business hotspot over Manhattan

  10-07-2026 22:14 via bxtimes.com
  
  A new report by the GoDaddy Small Business Research Lab identified the Bronx as one of the nation’s top 10 most entrepreneurial cities — even besting Manhattan. While the borough did not have the highest number of new businesses created among the top ten, it showed strong year-over-year growth, with 1,073 new businesses created in 2025.   San Antonio, TX: 11% growth and 9,232 new businesses  Miami, FL: 8% growth and 36,565 new businesses  Milwaukee, WI: 8% gr
  
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• Foreclosures in the Bronx hit seven-year high in second quarter of 2026: Report

  10-07-2026 21:29 via bxtimes.com
  
  During the second quarter of 2026, the Bronx achieved the most foreclosures during a single quarter in seven years, according to a report by PropertyShark.The 109 first-time foreclosure filings in the Bronx were nearly double the 57 that occurred during the same quarter the previous year, marking a 91% boost. It was the highest number of foreclosures in a single quarter since the 150 foreclosures in the first quarter of 2019.A large portion of the first-time filings were driven by single-family
  
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• Housing lottery running for 18 units in Belmont, rent starts at $1,368

  10-07-2026 21:10 via bxtimes.com
  
  Sign up for our weekly email newsletter to stay updated on the latest housing lotteries in New York City.A housing lottery is currently in progress for 18 units at 2351 Lorillard Pl. in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx.The 9-story residential building has 90 total housing units, with 72 being at market rate. Five of the 18 units set aside are intended for those earning 40% of the area median income and with an asset limit of $67,840. Another 11 are for those earning 70% of the are
  
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• Fuhgeddaboudit? Not Little Italy, Mamdani says after immigrant map backlash while blaming the former mayor for omission

  10-07-2026 20:45 via amny.com
  
  Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Friday that the City will add Little Italy to a public-facing map of immigrant enclaves after Italian American leaders blasted its omission from a World Cup tourism program as an insult to one of New York’s best-known immigrant neighborhoods.Asked about the controversy at an unrelated Manhattan press conference, Mamdani laid some of the blame at his predecessor, Eric Adams, saying the map was “initially created by the prior administration in 2023.” The
  
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• Bronx NYPD inspector hit with rape charges months after being sued for alleged sexual assault of female cop in precinct

  10-07-2026 18:30 via amny.com
  
  An NYPD inspector who led a Bronx police precinct and was accused in a civil suit of sexually assaulting a subordinate officer was arrested Friday morning after being indicted on rape charges, police announced. Jeremy Scheublin, 45, was cuffed at 7:10 a.m. on July 10 within the confines of the 46th Precinct, which he formerly led as its commanding officer. The arrest followed an Internal Affairs Bureau investigation last year, which was subsequently turned over to the Bronx District Attorne
  
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