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• Bronx Times visits Çka Ka Qëllu, one of three local restaurants on New York Times’ top 100 list

  02-05-2024 15:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  Everyone knows that the Bronx has great food — but only three Bronx restaurants made this year’s list of the 100 Best Restaurants in New York City by New York Times food critic Pete Wells.
  On the list, all the way up at #6, is La Piraña Lechonera, a trailer on East 152nd Street that received a three-star review from the Times in 2022. 
  Also included was 188 Bakery Cuchifritos in Fordham Heights, which serves Dominican and Puerto Rican specialties and made the list at
  
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• Saint Barnabas High School celebrates Class of 2024

  14-06-2024 14:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  More than 40 Saint Barnabas High School (SBHS) seniors began May 31 with a beautiful Baccalaureate Mass celebrated by Bishop Joseph Espaillat.As part of his homily to the Class of 2024, Bishop Espaillat advised everyone in attendance “to be charitable, to be hospitable, and know that you are loved.”
  Following Mass, the official graduation ceremony began with family, friends, faculty, administration, and members of the Board of Trustees in attendance. Bishop Espaillat gave a heartfelt
  
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• Annual Spring Fling sees huge turnout at Lehman College

  13-06-2024 23:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  There was food, drinks, singing, dancing and inspiring words shared on the campus quad at Lehman College on Wednesday, June 12, as VIPs and faculty gathered for the school’s fourth annual Spring Fling fundraiser.
  “Tonight, we’re raising money so that we can afford the student body better experiences, better opportunity and we’re so happy that there’s such a large turnout,” Ruben Diaz Jr. told the Bronx Times. The former Bronx Borough President, Ruben Diaz Jr.
  
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• ‘Ministry of presence’: Clergy and community rally against gun violence in Bronx’s 49th Precinct

  13-06-2024 21:15 via bxtimes.com
  
  On the evening of June 12, community and clergy members convened at the corner of Sackett Avenue and Williamsbridge Road for what Pastor Jay Gooding called a “ministry of presence.” 
  The gathering was a forceful call to an end to gun violence — and a tribute to Kelvin Sims, a 29-year-old man who was shot and killed at that intersection on June 9. 
  Members of Sims’ family sobbed as Gooding led the group in prayers of comfort and a denunciation of the kind of sens
  
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• Man found stabbed to death near Echo Triangle in the Bronx

  13-06-2024 20:10 via amny.com
  
  Police in the Bronx found a man stabbed to death by the Echo Triangle Wednesday night.
  Law enforcement sources said officers from the 46th Precinct responded to a 911 call of a man stabbed in the intersection of Echo Place and East Tremont Avenue by the Echo Triangle park space on June 12 at around 9:16 p.m. 
  When officers arrived, they found an unidentified man covered in blood with a stab wound to his chest. 
  EMS responded to the scene and rushed the victim to Saint Barnabas Hospital
  
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• VISIONS raises thousands for services in Westchester and the Bronx

  13-06-2024 18:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  On Tuesday, June 11, at the Surf Club in New Rochelle, VISIONS raised approximately $20,000 for VISIONS services in the Bronx and Westchester.
  (From l. to r.) Honorees Mary McDonnell, Brenda Prohaska, Jan Fisher and Rachel McChain-Batista (missing from photo: Swannie Batista)Photo courtesy VISIONS
  
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• Big Winner: $1M Mega Millions ticket sold at Parkchester candy store

  13-06-2024 16:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  One lucky Bronxite just struck it rich at a Parkchester candy store after the New York Lottery announced Tuesday the shop sold a second-place prize-winning Mega Millions ticket.     
  The $1 million winner bought their ticket at Three Star Candy Store located at 1673 Metropolitan Ave. Though they have yet to come forward, the winner has a year to claim their prize, according to the New York Lottery.
  Al Haramoh works the lottery machine at Three Star Candy and said he’s h
  
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• Stanton, Trevino and Verdugo homer as Yankees beat Royals 11-5 for 12th win in 15 games

  13-06-2024 14:37 via amny.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jose Trevino capped a six-run first inning with a three-run homer, Gleyber Torres added a three-run drive in the seventh and the New York Yankees romped over the Kansas City Royals 11-5 Wednesday night for their third straight win in the four-game series.
  Giancarlo Stanton hit a 449-foot, two-run homer into shrubbery next to a waterfall beyond left-center, a night after hitting a 446-foot home run over three fences beyond center field.
  Stanton has five home runs at
  
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• Congestion Pricing: Comptroller Lander assembling potential plaintiffs for suit to restart paused Manhattan toll

  12-06-2024 23:15 via amny.com
  
  City Comptroller Brad Lander said Wednesday that he is assembling a coalition of legal minds and impacted parties to potentially sue New York state over Gov. Kathy Hochul’s eleventh-hour decision to indefinitely pause congestion pricing.
  Because the governor framed her decision as a “temporary pause,” and the original start date of June 30 for the $15 congestion toll in Manhattan has not yet passed, Lander and others do not believe the time is ripe to bring a suit. Still, the c
  
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• AOC hosts discussion on antisemitism and its threat to democracy

  12-06-2024 20:24 via bxtimes.com
  
  U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who represents parts of Queens and the South Bronx, hosted a June 10 livestreamed conversation on antisemitism and its undermining effects on American democracy.
  According to Ocasio-Cortez, while Jewish people are the target of religious and racial prejudice, they are also the subject of a longstanding conspiracy theory that unfairly blames them for societal problems and undermines Americans’ trust in government.
  New York City is home to about 1.4 m
  
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• Empowering Generosity: The New York Community Trust

  12-06-2024 19:19 via podcasts.schnepsmedia.com
  We are joined by Amy Freitag, President of The New York Community Trust, discussing the Trust’s century-long legacy of fostering equitable communities across eight counties and serving 12.4 million New Yorkers. Amy brings extensive experience, previously leading initiatives at the J.M. Kaplan Fund and contributing significantly to environmental and historical preservation projects. From pioneering the first donor-advised fund to catalyzing pivotal projects, The Trust remains at the forefr
  
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• Assembly District 77 Democratic candidates square off in BronxTalk debate

  12-06-2024 18:35 via bxtimes.com
  
  The two candidates running to represent the 77th Assembly District, incumbent Landon Dais and challenger Leonardo Coello, squared off in a debate that aired on BronxNet on June 10.
  The pair are competing in the Democratic primary scheduled for June 25, with both seeking to represent the neighborhoods of Highbridge, Claremont, Concourse and Morris Heights. 
  Dais, 43, won the seat in February’s special election following Latoya Joyner’s resignation and now seeks a full two-year te
  
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• What’s Happening | Summer film screening, Bronx River Sounds and more

  12-06-2024 18:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  Community Pride Celebration
  Friday, June 14, from 6:30 to 10 p.m.
  Beatstro at 135 Alexander Ave.
  Admission: free
  Come celebrate love, diversity and inclusion at the 2024 Bronx Pride Celebration! Join the Office of the Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson and the Bronx LGBTQIA+ Task Force to continue or kick off your pride celebrations this month. 
  To register for this free pride celebration, click here. 
  Summer Film Screening
  Friday, June 14, from 7 to 10 p.m.
  Joyce Kilmer Park
  Admis
  
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• Could Yankees’ Aaron Judge break his own AL home run record in 2024?

  12-06-2024 17:23 via amny.com
  
  There is being red-hot at the plate and there is what Aaron Judge is doing right now. 
  The New York Yankees’ slugger is amidst the most torrid stretch in baseball, hitting his 25th home run of the season on Tuesday night in Kansas City to extend his lead atop the MLB leaderboard. 
  Over his last 35 games dating back to May 3, Judge is batting .422 with 19 home runs, 44 RBI, and a remarkable 1.572 OPS. His season average has taken a dramatic leap because of it, catapulting from a w
  
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• Police Athletic League holds annual science fair in South Bronx

  12-06-2024 17:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  Hundreds of young Police Athletic League (PAL) members in fifth- through eighth-grades from its citywide after school programs gathered on June 6 to compete at PAL’s Annual Science Fair held at PAL’s New South Bronx Center.
  PAL’s Science Fair challenged participants to explore and demonstrate the effects of natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires and tornadoes on superstructures. Young “engineers-in-training” used the Engineering Design Process to
  
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• DJ Masai to host Father’s Day-Juneteenth event at Outer Space

  12-06-2024 15:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  On Sunday, June 16, Bronxite music producer and DJ Masai will be hosting a joint Father’s Day-Juneteeth celebration at the renovated outdoor event space Outer Space. The family event, which doubles as a cultural celebration, will feature soulful house music and food curated by the DJ.Though the family-friendly social gathering is meant to unite all Bronxites, it also serves the dual purpose of uniting DJ Masai’s childhood neighbors, now artistically-inclined friends. Fast Forward Fil
  
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• Op-Ed | Why I am betting on the Bronx

  12-06-2024 14:53 via bxtimes.com
  
  I have been a New Yorker since arriving as a 5-year old from Korea. I grew up in various neighborhoods in Queens, including years in Whitestone where you could just about look across and see Ferry Point Park.  Those who were here in the 1980s know just how different things were back then. This was especially true of the Bronx — you could see tracts of hollowed out buildings riding across the Bruckner or the Cross Bronx.
  But those who have been here long enough understand that the word
  
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• Bronx murder suspect booked for fatally slashing woman’s throat

  12-06-2024 14:15 via amny.com
  
  Bronx detectives picked up early on Wednesday morning the prime suspect who slashed a woman to death earlier this month. 
  Jaleesa Richardson, 32, of Walton Avenue was booked at 1:10 a.m. on June 12 for the June 1 killing of Ashley Smith, 37, of Mount Vernon, outside a home on the 1400 block of Oakley Street in Williamsbridge.
  Officers from the 47th Precinct, in responding to a 911 call about the assault at about 6:08 a.m. on June 1, found Smith unconscious and unresponsive with a slash
  
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• Judge hits MLB-best 25th homer, Yankees rout Royals 10-1

  12-06-2024 12:09 via amny.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Aaron Judge hit his major league-leading 25th home run with a 436-foot, two-run drive into the fountain behind the center-field seats, and the New York Yankees routed the Kansas City Royals 10-1 on Tuesday night for their 11th win in 14 games.
  Giancarlo Stanton followed Judge in the seventh with a 446-foot shot to center against reliever Nick Anderson for his 16th home run of the season. Austin Wells hit a three-run homer in a four-run fourth off starter Brady Singe
  
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• Senior affordable housing development named after Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s mother opens in Soundview

  11-06-2024 22:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  About a hundred guests gathered June 11 at 1001 Thieriot Ave. to celebrate the ribbon-cutting of an all-electric affordable housing residence for seniors called Casa Celina, named for Celina Báez, the mother of Supreme Court Justice and Bronx native Sonia Sotomayor. The justice grew up next door in the NYCHA building formerly called Bronxdale Houses that now bears her name.
  “If there’s anything we do in this world, we have to ensure that we have our seniors’ backs,&rdquo
  
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• NYPD investigating two Bronx deaths on Sunday

  11-06-2024 21:52 via bxtimes.com
  
  The NYPD is investigating the death of a 66-year-old man they found unconscious and wounded on a Norwood park bench Sunday — the first of at least two deaths in the Bronx on Sunday that police are investigating.
  Cops from the 52nd Precinct responded to a 911 call at around 5:25 a.m. on June 9 about a man on a park bench near Putnam Place and Reservoir Oval East in Norwood. Upon their arrival, officers observed the man was “unconscious and unresponsive with multiple puncture wounds to
  
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• DREAM honors CEO, Knicks star at annual gala

  11-06-2024 19:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  DREAM, a 33-year public charter school network and youth development organization that operates in East Harlem and the Bronx raised $5.6 million at its annual gala at DREAM Charter School on Monday, June 10, honoring Onex Chief Executive Officer and DREAM Board Member Bobby Le Blanc, with appearances by honored guest and New York Knicks point guard Jalen Brunson, DREAM Board Member Hank Azaria, and Broadway star Elijah Johnson.
  Originally founded as Harlem RBI, DREAM traces its beginnings to 199
  
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• Bronx Borough President Gibson marches in annual Puerto Rican Day Parade

  11-06-2024 19:23 via bxtimes.com
  
  Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson marched in the 67th Annual National Puerto Rican Day Parade with this year’s theme, “Puerto Rican in My Heart,” on Sunday, June 9.For more coverage, follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @bronxtimes.
  
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• Pencils down? New York state may nix Regents exam requirements for students

  11-06-2024 18:30 via amny.com
  
  Regents exam requirements could soon be a thing of the past in New York state.
  The state Education Department (NYSED) released a plan Monday — ironically just as high school students are prepping for and taking the year-end exams — to nullify the mandate that high schoolers take the tests, based upon recommendations of the NYS Blue Ribbon Commission on Graduation Measures.
  “NYSED recommends decoupling specific assessment requirements from graduation requirements. Doing so means
  
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• Over and out? Police radio encryption bill left in limbo after failing to pass both houses in Albany

  11-06-2024 18:15 via amny.com
  
  New York lawmakers failed to pass the “Keep Police Radio Public Act” to prevent the NYPD and other police departments from shutting the press out of police radio access amid encryption efforts.
  Only one of the two houses in Albany passed the bill before the 2024 legislative session ended on Saturday morning. As a result, it will have to be reintroduced in the next session that starts in January 2025.
  The act would have provided credentialed media access to encrypted police radio chan
  
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• AL MVP odds: With Shohei Ohtani out of the picture, get ready for what could be a wide open race

  11-06-2024 18:12 via amny.com
  
  Twice in the last three years, Shohei Ohtani won AL MVP honors unanimously.
  It’s looking like a more wide-open race in 2024.
  With Ohtani in the National League now, the door is open for a handful of other candidates who are off to terrific starts. One of them is New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge, who won the award in 2022 by hitting 62 homers. He’s the only player besides Ohtani who has even received a first-place vote for AL MVP since 2021.
  Judge has helped the Yankees to the AL&
  
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• Bronx-born rapper and friends launch Sonrisa, Puerto Rico’s newest rum

  11-06-2024 17:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  Salsa, reggaeton and freestyle music blasted as hundreds gathered at Con Sofrito’s Puerto Rican Day parade after-party on Sunday, June 9, where a sea of people wearing and waving red, white and blue enjoyed free food, free drinks and the newest Puerto Rican rum to hit the market in partnership with Bronx-born rapper and entrepreneur, Joseph Cartagena — also known as Fat Joe.
  “It gives back to Puerto Rico, every bottle that’s sold, a dollar goes back to mom-and-pop busines
  
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• Bronx Veteran Chamber of Commerce hosts women self defense and martial arts demo

  11-06-2024 16:42 via bxtimes.com
  The Bronx Veteran Chamber of Commerce hosted a Women Self Defense & Martial Arts Demo with Master Instructor CJ Rivera on June 8. Gonzalo Duran, the chief executive officer of Devil Dog USA Incorporated was also present.
  Duran  said that the expansion of their self-defense courses on behalf of Devil Dog USA Incorporated and their partners is in response to the rising attacks on women in New York City. This event was held at Caldwell Temple in the Bronx.
  Women at this self defense worksh
  
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• New IDNYC center opening in the Bronx on June 24

  11-06-2024 16:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  The Department of Social Services announced the opening of a new IDNYC center on June 24 in the Bronx’s Tremont neighborhood, which the agency says will increase the number of New Yorkers served from 7,100 to 7,500 weekly.
  The new center at 1910 Monterey Ave. will bring the citywide total up to 11 locations, with at least two per borough — except Staten Island, which has one. The other Bronx location is at 3030 Third Ave. in Melrose.
  As the largest municipal ID program in the country
  
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• Carlos Rodón wins 7th straight start by pitching Yankees past Royals 4-2

  11-06-2024 14:13 via amny.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Carlos Rodón pitched shutout ball into the seventh inning in his return to the mound where he hit his low point last September, winning his seventh straight start and leading the New York Yankees over the Kansas City Royals 4-2 on Monday night.
  Juan Soto rejoined the Yankees lineup after missing a three-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers because of left forearm inflammation. He went 1 for 3 with a run and a walk as the designated hitter.
  “I did
  
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