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• After flooding and a five-month closure, Daisy’s Juice Bar & Café in Westchester Square fights to stay open

  31-07-2026 22:34 via bxtimes.com
  
  When Daisy's Juice Bar & Café reopened after five months of repairs earlier this year, owners Daisy Alvarenga and her business partner had every reason to scale back. Instead, they expanded.The Westchester Square location, which had spent about $50,000 repairing damage caused by repeated flooding from an upstairs apartment, reopened with a dining room, free library, rotating art exhibits and expanded community programming—even as the business continues trying to pay off rent tha
  
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• Councilmember Justin Sanchez helps secure $7M for new Lincoln Hospital NICU

  31-07-2026 21:17 via bxtimes.com
  
  New York City Councilmember Justin Sanchez announced on July 28 that a new state-of-the-art Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) will be built in NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln with the help of a Fiscal Year 2027 capital funding award of $7 million on July 28. Cristina Contreras, Chief Executive Officer of NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln, thanked Councilmember Sanchez for prioritizing the NICU, as well as NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin and the entire Bronx Delegation of the New York City Cou
  
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• AOC helps secure federal funding to remove abandoned vessels from NYC waterways

  31-07-2026 21:00 via qns.com
  
  U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined Parks Commissioner Tricia Shimamura on the shores of Flushing Bay in College Point on Wednesday, July 29, to announce over $2 million in federal funding to remove abandoned vessels from the South Bronx, northern Queens and Brooklyn.The $2.3 million grant, made available by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Marine Debris Program with the support of Ocasio-Cortez, will support the removal of 1 million pounds of abandoned vessels an
  
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• Construction finished on 182-unit affordable housing building in Westchester Square

  31-07-2026 20:43 via bxtimes.com
  
  Construction has now finished on a 7-story affordable housing building with 182 rental units at 1340 Blondell Ave. in Westchester Square.The building is 75 feet tall and covers 216,941 square feet, including 199,854 square feet of residential space, 15,304 square feet of commercial space and 1,783 square feet of community facility space. The rental units have an average unit scope of 851 square feet. Additional features of the property include ground-floor retail, a rear yard 30 feet in length a
  
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• Construction completed on mixed-use building with 82 apartments in West Farms

  31-07-2026 20:41 via bxtimes.com
  
  Construction recently finished for an 8-story mixed-use building with 82 rental units at 872 Bronx Park S. in West Farms.The building. located at the corner of Bronx Park South and Mohegan Avenue, is fully enclosed in its facade, which consists of red brick with white and gray masonry trim surrounding a grid of recessed square windows with black frames. A rounded black metal canopy hangs over the ground floor and the northwest corner of the building has a curve. The roof of the structure is flat
  
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• Bronx sex abuse pattern: Cops seek suspect who molested children and teenagers, reportedly at homeless shelters

  31-07-2026 16:40 via amny.com
  
  Police in the Bronx need the public's help in finding a man wanted in connection with several sex abuse cases dating back to 2018.Special victims detectives want to talk to Stephen Charles, 42, the prime suspect in a sexual abuse pattern within three different Bronx precincts: the 43rd, 46th and 47th. The cluster of attacks took place between Jan. 1, 2018, and May 5 of this year. Cops say Charles allegedly sexually abused young men between 10 and 18 years of age in incidents reported to pol
  
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• Bronx sex abuse pattern: Cops nab suspect who molested children and teenagers, reportedly at homeless shelters

  31-07-2026 16:40 via amny.com
  
  Police in the Bronx have apprehended a man wanted in connection with several sex abuse cases dating back to 2018.Special victims detectives arrested on Friday night Stephen Charles, 42, the prime suspect in a sexual abuse pattern within three different Bronx precincts: the 43rd, 46th and 47th. The cluster of attacks took place between Jan. 1, 2018, and May 5 of this year. Cops say Charles allegedly sexually abused young men between 10 and 18 years of age in incidents reported to police. He
  
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• Construction completed on Crotona Belmont Senior Housing mixed-use building with 134 units

  31-07-2026 00:03 via bxtimes.com
  
  Construction has wrapped up on Crotona Belmont Senior Housing, a 10-story mixed-use building with 134 rental units at 1883 Crotona Ave. in Crotona.The building's facade is composed of white, gray and beige metal paneling and charcoal-hued brick surrounding a grid of windows with black frames. The eighth and tenth stories feature setbacks on the massing, culminating in a flat roof topped with a photovoltaic canopy. The wider southeastern elevation has the main entrance.Each housing unit features
  
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• Housing lottery in progress for 11 units across two buildings in Kingsbridge, rent starts at $2,954

  31-07-2026 00:01 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 running for 11 total units across two residential buildings at 2838 Webb Ave. and 2840 Webb Ave. in Kingsbridge.The buildings, which are each four stories tall, have 16 total units, with 5 being at market rate. Each of the 11 units set aside in the housing lottery are intended for those earning 130% of the area median income and with an asset limit of
  
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