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• Three Bronx hospitals earn certification for expanding access to doula care

  25-08-2026 22:39 via bxtimes.com
  
  Three Bronx hospitals are among the first in New York City to receive certification for making their maternity care more welcoming to doulas, as the city expands access to community-based birth support amid persistent disparities in maternal and infant health.Montefiore Medical Center, NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln and NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi have completed the city’s Doula-Friendly Hospital Program, becoming three of six hospitals citywide to receive the program’s first certi
  
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• Huntington Library begins restoration of historic front doors

  25-08-2026 22:32 via bxtimes.com
  
  The Bronx’ connection to the past will soon be accessed through a pair of newly hand-crafted doors that will replicate the long-forgotten workmanship of the 18th Century.The Huntington Free Library and Reading Room at 9 Westchester Square, is in the midst of a thorough, top-to-bottom, inside and out renovation.The historic library, which was opened in 1891, is the third oldest structure standing in Westchester Square, edged out by only the pre-Civil War Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church
  
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• Was that a horse I just saw on East Tremont Avenue?

  25-08-2026 18:22 via bxtimes.com
  
  The sight of an NYPD Mounted Unit officer riding down a Bronx street can still make even a lifelong New Yorker look twice. For Jackie McQuade, owner of Schuyler Hill Funeral Home on East Tremont Avenue, it is a sight that brings her running out the door.For generations, the McQuade family has been closely tied to horses in the Bronx, from professional equestrian competition and the stables of Pelham Bay Park to horse drawn funeral processions and the NYPD Mounted Unit. Over the years, the family
  
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• Suspect who shot Bronx bodega customer to death in robbery attempt linked to deadly Brooklyn shooting: cops

  25-08-2026 18:15 via amny.com
  
  The suspect who shot a Bronx bodega customer to death on Tuesday morning during a violent robbery is also wanted for a deadly shooting in Brooklyn over the weekend, police reported on Tuesday.The news came as cops in the Bronx discovered a discarded red hooded sweatshirt on Tuesday morning that they believe had been worn by the perpetrator. Cops flocked around the discarded item of clothing on Walton Avenue between East 149th and 150th Streets, not far from where the shooting took place. Accordi
  
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• Suspect who shot Bronx bodega customer in robbery attempt linked to deadly Brooklyn shooting: cops

  25-08-2026 18:15 via amny.com
  
  The suspect who shot a Bronx bodega customer on Tuesday morning during a violent robbery is also wanted for a deadly shooting in Brooklyn over the weekend, police reported on Tuesday.The news came as cops in the Bronx discovered a discarded red hooded sweatshirt on Tuesday morning that they believe had been worn by the perpetrator. Cops flocked around the discarded item of clothing on Walton Avenue between East 149th and 150th Streets, not far from where the shooting took place. According to sur
  
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• Bronx detectives probe suspicious death after man with head trauma dropped off at local hospital

  25-08-2026 14:40 via amny.com
  
  Detectives in the Bronx are investigating what they call a suspicious death after a man was dropped off at a local hospital on Monday afternoon with severe head trauma.According to police sources, officers from the 52nd Precinct were called to Montefiore Einstein Hospital, located at 111 East 210th St. in Norwood, just before 4 p.m. on Aug. 24 after a 60-year-old man was brought to the medical center with serious injuries to the head and hip.Sources familiar with the investigation reported that
  
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