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• 41st Annual Bronx Halloween Parade brings frights and festivities to the borough

  29-10-2026 16:00 via Bronx Times
  
  NYC’s second-largest Halloween Parade returned on Oct. 24 with the 41st annual Bronx Halloween Parade.
  This year, clowns, candy, and cars riddled the street at Southern Blvd & Westchester Ave, following a “Carnival of Nightmares - The Greatest Fear on Earth” theme. “This parade still belongs to the families who line Southern Boulevard every October,” said Bronx Community Board 2, organizers of the parade.Nearly 10 months of planning and organizing resulted in a parade where influe
  
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• Hostos Community College professor runs NYC Marathon to support domestic violence survivors

  29-10-2026 14:30 via Bronx Times
  
  Ernest Lalongo is all set to run at the New York City marathon on Nov. 1 as part of Team New Destiny to raise awareness for domestic violence and its impact on education.Lalongo has been a professor of history at Hostos Community College in the Bronx for 18 years and at least once a semester, works with a student who faces domestic violence. He highlights the ways in which it affects a student’s education.“The education, at many times just stops when these folks are fleeing their homes,” L
  
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• City Council pushback stalls Mamdani’s racial equity watchdog shake-up until 2027

  29-10-2026 14:15 via Bronx Times
  
  Mayor Zohran Mamdani's plan to replace the head of New York City's independent racial equity watchdog has been delayed until at least next summer after City Council members pushed back against removing its current chair.Mamdani confirmed Wednesday that Linda Tigani, whose commission has challenged his administration's handling of the city's first racial equity plan, would remain in her post until next summer, when he hopes to install Christopher Alexander, executive director of the NAACP New Yo
  
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