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• Gem Pawnbrokers cuts the ribbon at new South Bronx location

  16-05-2024 17:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  On May 15, Gem Pawnbrokers held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at its new 420 East 149th St. location in the South Bronx.
  Manager Ramon Garcia spoke on the importance of having a store like this in the community. Garcia, who grew up in the area, met with local community members who stopped him for a hug.
  A group photo inside Gem Pawnbrokers at East 149th Street.Photo Jewel Webber
  Those who attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony received Gem Pawnbrokers mugs filled with treats, tumblers and more.
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• NYPD Community Affairs hosts Bronx Father’s Day celebration

  17-06-2024 18:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  The NYPD’s Community Affairs Bureau hosted a Father’s Day Cut & Brunch celebration on June 12, held in honor of the amazing fathers in the Bronx community. The event, held at the BronxWorks Pyramid Cornerstone Community Center (884 Washington Ave.), was free for all fathers.Fathers and all present enjoyed free haircuts, food, drinks, great music and good laughs. 
  A group photo with Officer Cristina Cepeda-Chavez, Officer Dili Jefferson, Officer Sherrell Davis; FEC Commu
  
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• Yankees meet Orioles in massive June clash with Gerrit Cole return looming

  17-06-2024 17:26 via amny.com
  
  With a slim 1.5-game lead over their division rivals in the American League East, the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles will face off in a crucial three-game series for top billing, beginning Tuesday at Yankee Stadium.
  The Yankees, with a robust .676 win percentage, come in with the best record in Major League Baseball. The Orioles, 8-2 in their last 10 games, are tied for the second-best record in the league and are seeking to win the AL East for the second straight season. 
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• BronxNet celebrates community art project grant recipients

  17-06-2024 17:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  Ten artists debuted their two-year-long innovative media projects supported by the artists economy initiative Creative Rebuild New York and BronxNet Media and Technology Studios on Thursday, June 13. 
  Participating artists included puppetry artists Alba Enid García Rivas, Kervin Peralta and Paola Poucel; filmmakers Jasmine White and Kobina de Graft Johnson; hip-hop artists and producers Ana “Rokafella” Garcia and Gabriel “Kwikstep” Dionisio; visual artist Mart
  
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• Column | First-of-its-kind reformer pilates studio opens on City Island

  17-06-2024 16:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  Business is thriving in the Bronx because of the community members with unique ideas for small businesses that, once they open, become an essential part of the borough. Wendy Clark is one of these people; Clark recently opened The Pearl, a movement studio on City Island. The business offers classes in pilates, yoga, meditation, dance and even pre- and post-natal movement.
  What sets The Pearl apart from other movement studios in the Bronx is that they offer reformer pilates, which is not offered
  
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• ‘A space to be proud of’: Bronx leaders announce $5.5M in funding for renovations to outdoor field at William H. Taft Educational Campus

  17-06-2024 15:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson, City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, Council Member Althea Stevens and Assemblymember Landon Dais joined school officials in the auditorium of the William H. Taft Educational Campus in the Claremont section of the Bronx on June 14 to present a $5.5 million check for upgrades toward the renovation of the Jonathan Levin Field.
  Shortly before the announcement, the community leaders spoke with the students about the process of the renovation project.
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• Yankees leave bases loaded in 7th, yield 9 stolen bases in 9-3 loss to Red Sox

  17-06-2024 14:58 via amny.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Boston’s Zack Kelly escaped a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the seventh before Connor Wong had a two-run triple in the bottom of the inning, lifting the Red Sox to a 9-3 victory over the MLB-best New York Yankees on Sunday night.
  The Red Sox set a club-record with nine stolen bases, with David Hamilton getting four, to take two of three games from the Yankees. It was the most stolen bases in a major league game this season and the most allowed by the Yankees since May 19,
  
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• New York Botanical Garden celebrates Juneteenth on Bronx Day

  17-06-2024 14:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  Bronxites enjoyed a lively Juneteenth celebration on Bronx Day at the New York Botanical Garden on Saturday, June 15.
  Festivities included live music and dance performances by Chief Joseph Chatoyer Dance Company and The Everything Cover Band, arts and crafts, face painting, food trucks, and culinary activities.
  Chief Joseph Chatoyer Dance Company performed on Bronx Day at the New York Botanical Garden.Bronxites enjoyed a lively Juneteenth celebration on Bronx Day at the New York Botanical Garden
  
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• NYC panel could hike rents for stabilized tenants 6.5% in Monday vote

  17-06-2024 14:22 via amny.com
  
  A New York City board will vote Monday night on how much to raise rents this year for the Big Apple’s approximately 1 million stabilized tenants — a hike that could reach as high as 6.5%.
  The nine-member panel, known as the Rent Guidelines Board, will hold its final vote to determine the amount in rent increases stabilized tenants will see this coming year during a June 17 meeting. The proceeding, which is open to the public, will take place at Hunter College’s Assembly Hall at
  
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• Driver in Bronx manages to flee after crashing his luxury car off a parking garage roof

  16-06-2024 21:23 via amny.com
  
  Police in the Bronx are looking for the driver who somehow survived a 50-foot fall after sending his luxury car plummeting off the roof of a parking garage Sunday morning.
  The collision totaled the sedan and took out a chunk of the structure, authorities said. Miraculously, the driver lived to flee the carnage.
  According to police sources, the driver of a Porsche drove off the roof of a Target located at Exterior Street and West 225th Street at around 5:12 a.m. on June 16.
  Amazingly, no one real
  
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• Editorial | Vote George Latimer over Jamaal Bowman in the 16th Congressional District primary

  16-06-2024 21:00 via amny.com
  
  Bronx and Westchester Democrats have a big decision to make in the primary on June 25: Do they want their next Member of Congress to be someone who believes in ideals, or someone beholden to ideology?
  There’s a huge difference between ideals and ideology. Ideals are things for which to strive; ideology is something to impose. Those who believe in ideals act to protect and improve all the people they represent; those who practice ideology work only to protect and improve their cause, even i
  
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• Congestion pricing: Feds give final approval, seem to counter Hochul’s economic reasoning for pausing Manhattan tolls

  16-06-2024 20:16 via amny.com
  
  The Federal Highway Administration’s final approval for the MTA’s now-shelved congestion pricing program gave plaudits to the tolling scheme which Gov. Kathy Hochul scuttled for the sake of easing economic costs to drivers.
  On the contrary, the approval decision on June 14 seemed to indicate that congestion pricing would provide significant economic benefits, including “travel-time savings and travel-time reliability improvements, as well as reduced vehicle operating costs.&rdq
  
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• Bronx man wounded in early-morning shooting near Major Deegan Expressway

  16-06-2024 15:15 via amny.com
  
  Cops in the Bronx are investigating an early-morning shooting on Sunday that left a man seriously wounded.
  Police said the incident happened at about 2:58 a.m. on June 16 near the corner of West 150th and Exterior Streets, below the Major Deegan Expressway and near the Bronx Terminal Market, in Concourse.
  Officers from the 44th Precinct, in responding to a 911 call about shots fired, found a 29-year-old man at the scene with a bullet wound to his leg.
  The corner of East 155th and Exterior Street
  
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• Gerrit Cole’s return on horizon providing more good omens for Yankees

  16-06-2024 13:50 via amny.com
  
  The Yankees sit atop the American League in large part due to what has been an elite rotation. They’ve also done it without their ace and reigning Cy Young Award winner.  
  Gerrit Cole, who won his first Cy Young last season, has yet to throw a pitch for the team this year. He has been sidelined since March due to nerve irritation and edema in his pitching elbow but could return within the week after striking out 10 with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Friday in what was his thi
  
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• Devers’ 2-run double helps Red Sox beat Yankees, stop Rodón’s 7-start winning streak

  16-06-2024 12:35 via amny.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Rafael Devers hit a two-run double and the Boston Red Sox ended Carlos Rodón’s seven-start winning streak by beating the New York Yankees 8-4 on Saturday night.
  Tyler O’Neill and rookie Jamie Westbrook had RBI doubles in a three-run first inning for the Red Sox, who rebounded from an 8-1 loss in Friday’s series opener to win before just the second sellout at Fenway Park this season.
  “It was better today than yesterday,” Red Sox manager Ale
  
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• Week in Rewind: Bronx-born rapper and friends launch Sonrisa, NYPD investigating Bronx deaths, AOC hosts discussion on antisemitism and more

  15-06-2024 16:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  Bronx-born rapper and friends launch Sonrisa, Puerto Rico’s newest rum
  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 Ri
  
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• Alex Verdugo slugs 2-run HR, drives in 4 runs in return to Fenway, Yankees beat Red Sox 8-1

  15-06-2024 11:29 via amny.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Alex Verdugo had a two-run homer and four RBIs in his return to Fenway Park, and Luis Gil struck out six as the MLB-leading New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 8-1 on Friday night.
  Verdugo spent four seasons with the Red Sox before being traded to New York in December in a rare deal between the AL East division rivals.
  “To come over here, do what we did as a team and obviously the swing that I put on in the first to give us the lead, it was a big moment,” Ver
  
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• Bronx June 25 Primary Election: What you need to know

  15-06-2024 03:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  Early voting for the June 25 Primary Election starts this weekend. Here’s what Bronxites need to know about their races. 
  Candidates 
  The June 25 Primary Election includes high-profile Bronx congressional, state Assembly and state Senate contests, as well as races for Judicial Convention delegate and alternate delegate and a Civil Court judge position. Here are the big races in the Bronx.
  Congress – Democratic Primary
  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (incumbent) vs. Marty Dolan
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• Doctors rally at Jacobi Hospital to demand better contract and working conditions

  14-06-2024 22:15 via bxtimes.com
  
  Dozens of Doctors Council SEIU members rallied outside Jacobi Medical Center on Friday to demand a better contract, citing high levels of burnout and turnover among their ranks. The members are locked in a contract dispute with NYC Health + Hospitals (H+H) and affiliates including Mount Sinai and NYU. 
  Jacobi boasts a Level 1 trauma center, hyperbaric chambers for burn and smoke inhalation victims, a stroke center and even specialized treatment for snake bite victims. But those who rallied
  
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• DEP, NYC Parks finalize deal to ‘daylight Tibbetts Brook, extend Putnam Greenway

  14-06-2024 19:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  The New York City Department of Environmental Protection and NYC Parks closed a $11.2 million deal with railroad and freight company CSX Transportation to finalize the purchase of a key piece of property needed to reroute Tibbetts Brook above-ground in an engineering feat known as “daylighting.”
  The $133 million project will remove Tibbetts Brook flow from the sewer system and create additional capacity in the Bronx’s drainage network, expecting to reduce combined sewer flows b
  
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• CM Stevens, 12 other council members endorse incumbent Bowman in Bronx/Westchester congressional race

  14-06-2024 16:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  Bronx Council Member Althea Stevens joined 12 colleagues in announcing their endorsement of incumbent Rep. Jamaal Bowman for the District 16 U.S. Congressional seat, where he currently represents a small section of the north Bronx and parts of Westchester County. Bowman, who was elected in 2020, is the first Black person to hold the seat. 
  With the primary election coming in 10 days, Bowman’s race against Westchester County Executive George Latimer has become one of the most-watched r
  
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• Police investigate fatal stabbing in the Bronx

  14-06-2024 15:30 via amny.com
  
  Police in the Bronx are investigating a deadly stabbing that occurred in a Bronx public housing complex Thursday night. 
  Officers from the 42nd Precinct and PSA #7 responded to a 911 call of a male stabbed in front of 1420 Washington Ave., Morrisania, at approximately 9:42 p.m. on June 13. When officers arrived, they found 29-year-old Lilly Nelquan, who lives at the address, covered in blood and punctured with stab wounds throughout his body, police said. 
  EMS were on site and rushed t
  
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• Summer Sea Term 2024 begins for U.S. Coast Guard cadets

  14-06-2024 15:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  On Monday, June 10, at 10 a.m., the training ship Empire State VII departed SUNY Maritime campus for Summer Sea Term 2024. Summer Sea Term is one of the requirements for earning a U.S. Coast Guard license.
  As part of the program, cadets — either deck or engine license candidates — must accrue at least 180 days at sea before they graduate. Time is earned during Summer Sea Term journeys after freshman, sophomore,and junior years.  This year they are headed to the Bahamas, Azores,
  
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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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