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• After 32 years of advocacy, Zimmerman Playground reopens following $6.9M renovation

  17-08-2026 23:20 via bxtimes.com
  
  Bronx officials and community members gathered on August 14 to celebrate the grand reopening of Corporal Louis Zimmerman Playground at 650 Britton Street following a $6.9 million reconstruction investment. The major renovation brings a new ADA-accessible layout, brand-new playground and fitness equipment, a spray shower, a synthetic turf field, two newly designed basketball courts, and other upgrades to the neighborhood playground.The project was completed through the Community Parks Initia
  
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• From Greenpoint merchants to Chinatown lights: Where NYC’s $8.4M small-business grants are going

  17-08-2026 22:50 via amny.com
  
  Mayor Zohran Mamdani is allocating a large chunk of an $8.4 million small-business grant package toward strengthening merchant groups and business improvement districts,  and, in some neighborhoods, laying the groundwork for new merchant organizations along New York City’s commercial corridors.The grants announced Monday by Mamdani and the Department of Small Business Services will also pay for street cleaning, lighting, public art, wayfinding, marketing and other neighborhood improve
  
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• Bronx volunteers turn donated bikes into memorials for cyclists killed on NYC streets

  17-08-2026 22:33 via bxtimes.com
  
  A small band of volunteers draped tarps over the chain link fence on August 16, that debuts Lee Street Garden in Pelham Bay, in anticipation of their prepping of six “ghost” bikes to memorialize fellow cyclists who have tragically died in riding accidents.Kevin DeLoia, an avid cyclist, led the dozen or so volunteers that came together from across NYC. By 10 a.m. the donated relics were stripped down and transformed into street memorials.With bolt cutters and socket wrenches in hand,
  
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• What’s happening | Morgan Walk, Gardiner Memorial Basketball Classic, cleaning Orchard Beach and more

  17-08-2026 22:05 via bxtimes.com
  
  Morgan Walk: St. George’s CrescentFriday, Aug. 21, 2-4 p.m.St. George’s Crescent in Mosholu Parkway, 3202 Steuben Ave.FreeJoin historian Terrell L. Armistead in a special tour along the Bronx River at St. George’s Crescent as they share the ecological stories and community histories of the Bronx River. Led in honor of Morgan Powell, a founding member of the Bronx River Restoration and a passionate advocate for the reclamation of the Bronx River. His research has been fundamenta
  
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