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• Bronx Dog Haven helps pet owners access low-cost and free pet supplies

  24-07-2026 23:35 via bxtimes.com
  
  Amid the city’s affordability crisis, pets can suffer just as much as humans do. But the nonprofit Bronx Dog Haven, run by Hydia Cohen of Morrisania, is stepping in to help people keep their pets happy, healthy and safe.Cohen, known affectionately as “The Dog Lady,” has been running pet pantries and other resources as an official nonprofit since 2024. Most pantry visitors come from the Bronx, but some commute from the other boroughs and even Long Island, showing the great need
  
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• Mamdani signs executive order requiring city vehicles be equipped with pedestrian alert, speed limiter devices

  24-07-2026 22:45 via amny.com
  
  Mayor Zohran Mamdani this week ordered the city's non-emergency trucks be outfitted with devices warning pedestrians of their presence when making turns and that all new vehicles the city acquires be equipped with them as well as technology capping their top speeds.Mamdani took the action by signing Executive Order 19 on Thursday afternoon.The measure mandates that the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) add the pedestrian alert devices to the 4,000 city fleet trucks it manages
  
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• This fall, the birthplace of hip-hop becomes home to the nation’s first School of Hip-Hop

  24-07-2026 22:17 via bxtimes.com
  
  The first-of-its-kind Bronx School of Hip-Hop will open this fall and school staff intend to make sure students know and feel their place in history. Principal Jason Reyes will lead the inaugural class, starting with ninth grade and building capacity each year. Every aspect of the school, from the walls to the curriculum to the bells between classes, will be infused with hip-hop sounds, imagery and legacy, he told the Bronx Times.
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• At D’Romanos Pizza, no one leaves hungry

  24-07-2026 22:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  When Daniel Romano saw an elderly woman pull half a pizza out of his pizzeria's trash can, he couldn't look away.He walked over, threw the discarded slice back into the garbage and handed her a fresh one instead. She started crying, but Romano had only one response: "Don't cry. Eat."That moment inspired the handwritten sign hanging in the window of  D'Romano's Pizza on East Tremont Avenue stating: “To the people eating out of the garbage, I have more love for you than you think. Pleas
  
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• Cops search for two suspects in anti-LGBTQ attack in the Bronx

  24-07-2026 18:06 via gaycitynews.com
  
  Two individuals allegedly attacked a man at an intersection in the Highbridge section of the Bronx last month in an apparent fit of anti-LGBTQ rage, according to the NYPD.At around 7:30 p.m. on June 25 — three days before the annual NYC Pride March — the two men allegedly approached a 43-year-old man at the intersection of Elliot Place and Jerome Avenue, voiced anti-LGBTQ statements, pushed him, and then punched and kicked his body, according to the NYPD.At that point, the pair alleg
  
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