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• New York Democrats stand by Biden despite shaky debate performance

  28-06-2024 22:13 via amny.com
  
  While many political commentators have described Thursday’s presidential debate as a disastrous night for President Biden, New York Democrats made it clear on Friday that they are either standing by their man — or choosing to stay silent — following his performance. 
  Many elected Democrats shifted the focus to Trump, away from Biden. Others focused solely on Biden’s strengths, ignoring his apparent stumbles. 
  “Let’s be clear. Donald Trump is the grea
  
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• PHOTOS : March of Dads

  01-07-2024 22:15 via bxtimes.com
  
  A father makes a fist before the March of Dads held by Dad Gang in Mill Pond Park on June 29, 2024.Photo Max Blease
  The founder and CEO of Dad Gang, Sean Williams, gives a media interview before the March of Dads on June 29, 2024.Photo Max Blease
  Children wave flags during the March of Dads, held in Mill Pond Park on June 29, 2024.Photo Max Blease
  Dads attend the March of Dads held by Dad Gang in Mill Pond Park on June 29, 2024.Photo Max Blease
  Dads and their kids pose in front of the Hip-Hop Mu
  
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• Column | The Bronx Fireworks Extravaganza was a true community event

  01-07-2024 21:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  The Bronx Fireworks Extravaganza is an event that Bronxites look forward to year after year, and 2024 was no exception.
  On Thursday, June 27, Orchard Beach was filled with people excited to celebrate the official start to the summer season with food, entertainment and, of course, fireworks.
  Part of the success of this event can be attributed to those who attend every year. Another part of the success can be attributed to the collaboration between big donors and small businesses. This year, the s
  
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• Bronx pols, top Democrats react to Biden/Trump presidential debate

  01-07-2024 21:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  While many political commentators have described the June 27 presidential debate as a disastrous night for current President Joe Biden, New York Democrats are either standing by their man or choosing to stay silent following his performance. 
  Many elected Democrats shifted the focus away from Biden’s age and mental fitness — a common talking point of concern for the current president after last week’s debate on CNN — to Republican challenger and former President
  
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• NY Dems slam Supreme Court ruling in former President Trump’s immunity case

  01-07-2024 20:45 via amny.com
  
  New York Democratic elected officials fumed over a Monday Supreme Court ruling in ex-President Donald Trump’s immunity case that found former commanders in chief are protected from prosecution for any of their official acts in office.
  The 6-3 ruling, a split between the court’s conservative majority and liberal minority, did conclude that past presidents do not have immunity for their “unofficial acts” in the White House.
  The decision will further delay the Washington, DC
  
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• Advocating for Non-Public Schools: A Conversation with Teach Coalition’s Maury Litwack

  01-07-2024 19:42 via podcasts.schnepsmedia.com
  Maury Litwack, founder and CEO of Teach Coalition talks about his organization’s mission and impact. Teach Coalition advocates for funding and policy changes to support non-public schools, such as Jewish, Catholic, and Islamic schools. Litwack emphasizes the significant non-public school population and their need for resources like healthy lunches, STEM education, and school safety measures. He highlights three main areas of focus: advocating for laws that reimburse non-public schools for
  
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• Hostos, Mott Haven community colleges celebrate Pride and Caribbean heritage

  01-07-2024 19:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  Hostos Community College proudly hosted the Mott Haven Community Partnership’s (MHCP) general meeting and panel discussions on Thursday, June 27, commemorating Pride Month and Caribbean Heritage Month. The fourth annual event was designed to spark conversations that contribute to how organizations conduct outreach to diverse community members and facilitate intersectional change within different sectors.
  “Hostos has long supported, encouraged, and celebrated the glorious diversity of
  
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• ‘A really special institution’: New two-year college opening in Riverdale this fall

  01-07-2024 18:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  Starting this fall, Bronxites will have a brand-new two-year college option — one where almost all students will graduate debt-free. 
  The new program, Seton College, will be housed on the campus of the University of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale, a private four-year institution that adopted the smaller college in a school-within-a-school model facilitated by the nonprofit Come to Believe Network. 
  This school-within-a-school arrangement is a first of its kind in New York and w
  
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• Three Preston High School graduates to attend Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education

  01-07-2024 18:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  Three graduating Preston High School seniors will be attending the Sophie Davis Medical School of Biomedical Education. Kris-Ann Green, Adaugo Nwosu and Clara Suriel will be members of the newest class at the CUNY School of Medicine as they pursue their studies in biomedical sciences. 
  Throughout their time at Preston, all three served as dedicated members of the National, Spanish and Mu Alpha Theta Honor Societies. Green was an active member of Compassion Connection. Suriel served as salut
  
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• Democracy Prep celebrates opening of new school in the Bronx

  01-07-2024 17:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  Democracy Prep Public Schools students and leaders held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, June 28, for a new 96,167-square-foot building at 1000 Westchester Ave., which will serve 1,000 students at full capacity. The new location, near public transit options, includes over 40 classrooms, arts and science facilities, a gym, and early childhood education spaces. It also has accessible elevators and stairwells.  
  The building will become home to two schools this summer — Democrac
  
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• Good Shepherd commemorates graduation for YABC students

  01-07-2024 17:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  Shepherd Services, in partnership with the New York City Department of Education, hosted the Columbus Young Adult Borough Center (YABC) Graduation Ceremony on June 25. 
  The ceremony celebrated the achievements of YABC students who have overcome significant challenges to complete their high school education. The YABC hosts afternoon and evening programs designed to meet the educational needs of high school students behind in credit or have adult responsibilities that make it hard to attend s
  
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• Three Preston High School seniors to play sports in college

  01-07-2024 16:46 via bxtimes.com
  
  This year, three athletes from the Preston High School Class of 2024 will be continuing their athletic journeys in college.
  Gianna Barbieri will attend Dominican University in the fall to study occupational therapy and will be playing softball. Jamie Kibler will attend Maritime College in the fall to study marine transportation and will be playing soccer. Heide Lopez Ramirez will attend Fordham University in the fall to study biological sciences and will be joining the cheerleading team.
  
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• New York Botanical Garden invites you to be Alice in ‘Wonderland: Curious Nature’

  01-07-2024 16:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  In 1865, Lewis Carrol published one of the most celebrated novels in the history of literature, influencing equally heralded songs, art and movies. And the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is joining in on the obsession with, “Wonderland: Curious Nature.”
  Inspired by the cult classic, “The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland,” the NYBG’s latest exhibit invites visitors to fall down the rabbit hole and dive into the whimsical décor across the grounds. Ogle at th
  
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• The Throggs Neck Community Action Partnership hosts annual community youth poster contest

  01-07-2024 14:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  The Throggs Neck Community Action Partnership (TNCAP) hosted the 2024 Annual Poster Contest on June 5 at Jeanne Jugan Residence. This annual event engages the youth in the Throggs Neck community to visually depict their understanding of a certain topic that is related to the prevention of alcohol and tobacco use.
  This year’s theme was “How to Build a Healthy Community.” The competition was conducted throughout the local elementary and middle schools and after-school progr
  
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• Aaron Judge’s league-leading 31st home run helps power Yankees over Blue Jays to earn series split

  30-06-2024 23:08 via amny.com
  
  Whatever anxiety the Yankees and their fans may have felt heading into Sunday’s series finale with the Toronto Blue Jays quickly dissolved with the swing of Aaron Judge’s mighty bat.
  Judge hit his major league-leading 31st home run in the first off Jays hurler Kevin Gausman, plating both himself and Juan Soto, who returned to the lineup after sitting out Saturday’s loss with a bruised right hand.
  Soto had singled off Gausman in the first before Judge sent a 423-foot drive over
  
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• Op-ed | Where the MTA goes from here, with congestion pricing on ice

  30-06-2024 16:00 via amny.com
  
  This was supposed to be the week we turned on the congestion pricing system. As we all know, that’s no longer happening – at least for the moment.
  A few weeks ago, Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered a temporary pause on tolling, and last week the MTA Board acknowledged the State’s decision, while also directing MTA staff to keep the machinery of congestion pricing in good operating order until that pause is lifted. In the meantime, we are reprioritizing and re-sequencing the MTA Capital
  
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• Bronx double shooting leaves two men wounded, suspect at large: cops

  30-06-2024 15:25 via amny.com
  
  Two young men in the Bronx were wounded in a double shooting on Sunday morning, and cops are still looking for the suspect responsible, police reported.
  Officers from the 40th Precinct were made aware of the shooting by Lincoln Hospital staff after the two victims walked into the medical center seeking treatment at about 6:32 a.m. on June 30.
  Upon further investigation, police learned that the victims, both 19-year-old men, had been wounded in the area of 910 East 132nd St., amid an industrial s
  
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• Week in Rewind: Hochul announces $500M project, Progressives lose Bowman, Bollywood in the Bronx celebrates diversity, and more

  29-06-2024 16:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  Hochul announces $500M project to rebuild Bronx River Parkway bridges
  Gov. Kathy Hochul this week announced a $517.5 million initiative to rebuild bridges along the Bronx River Parkway.
  In the announcement from her office she said changes to the expressway are especially necessary as climate change continues to impact the area, and emphasized the need for upgrades in the some of the surrounding roadways. The project is slated to be completed in the spring of 2028.
  “Modernizing our infrastr
  
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• Mayor and Council Speaker reach $112B budget deal that restores many unpopular cuts

  28-06-2024 23:44 via amny.com
  
  Mayor Eric Adams and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams capped off another contentious round of city budget negotiations on Friday by shaking hands on a tentative $112.4 billion Fiscal Year 2025 spending plan that restores many of the mayor’s unpopular cuts.
  The not-yet-finalized budget deal comes just two days before the June 30 deadline by which the City Council must adopt a financial blueprint for the upcoming fiscal year. It also dispels speculation that the spending plan would be lat
  
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• “I have work to do”: George Latimer on representing the Bronx

  28-06-2024 22:25 via bxtimes.com
  
  George Latimer, the Westchester County Executive who will likely become the next representative for the 16th Congressional District, realizes he has an optics problem when it comes to the Bronx constituents. And in terms of name recognition, “I have work to do,” he said.
  But Latimer told the Bronx Times that although he is a 70-year-old white man in a suit, many Bronxites and working-class people throughout the district can relate to his family story. 
  Latimer said he grew up on
  
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• Gibson celebrates Caribbean Heritage Month

  28-06-2024 18:45 via bxtimes.com
  
  Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson joined by Mistress of Ceremonies Juanita Lara — development director at BronxNet Television — and a recipient of the Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY) grant, recognized outstanding leaders in the Bronx and New York City’s Caribbean community at the Andrew Freedman Home on Tuesday.
  The honorees this year were Founder and CEO of Bullzii Marketing, LLC, Andrea Bullens; Director of Operations for the Bronx Tourism Council, Julius Drake; Direct
  
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• Son of rapper Remy Ma arraigned in 2021 murder-for-hire case in South Jamaica: DA

  28-06-2024 17:30 via qns.com
  
  A Queens grand jury indicted the son of rapper Remy Ma and another man for a 2021 murder-for-hire of a reputed Astoria drug kingpin in South Jamaica.The Grammy nominee’s son Jayson Scott and his co-defendant Richard Swygert, both from the Bronx, were arraigned on Tuesday in Queens Supreme Court for allegedly gunning down 47-year-old Darius Guillebeaux.Scott, 23, of Tier Street on City Island, is alleged to have been hired to kill Guillebeaux and was arraigned on a seven-count indictment ch
  
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• First On amNY: Eligibility for city’s half-price MetroCard program boosted to 145% of federal poverty line in city budget: sources

  28-06-2024 17:00 via amny.com
  
  Mayor Eric Adams and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams have agreed to expand eligibility for a program that provides low-income New Yorkers with half-priced MetroCards in the upcoming city budget, an increase that still falls short of the one desired by the speaker and transit advocates, sources familiar with budget talks told amNewYork Metro.
  The Fiscal Year 2025 spending plan will increase the eligibility for the city’s Fair Fares program from those making 120% of the federal poverty l
  
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• Dominican New York Judges attend Judicial Powers Conference

  28-06-2024 16:18 via bxtimes.com
  
  Judges of Dominican ancestry assigned to courts in the City of New York were invited to participate in the Conferencia 2024 Poder Judicial, Judicial Powers 2024 Conference, in the Dominican Republic from April 25-27 of this year.
  The conference was organized by the country’s Office of Judicial Powers, Poder Judicial, and their Judicial University, Escuela Nacional de la Judicatura, a prerequisite to being able to serve as a judge there.  In attendance were jurists and attorneys from a
  
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• Hochul announces $500M project to rebuild Bronx River Parkway bridges

  28-06-2024 15:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  Gov. Kathy Hochul this week announced a $517.5 million initiative to rebuild bridges along the Bronx River Parkway.
  In the announcement from her office she said changes to the expressway are especially necessary as climate change continues to impact the area, and emphasized the need for upgrades in the some of the surrounding roadways. The project is slated to be completed in the spring of 2028.
  “Modernizing our infrastructure to meet the demands of the 21st century means creating a transp
  
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• The Bronx Defenders welcomes Juval O. Scott as its next executive director

  28-06-2024 14:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  The Bronx Defenders has announced the appointment of Juval O. Scott — a nationally-recognized leader in public defense, civil rights, and sentencing reform — as the next executive director of The Bronx Defenders. Scott will be the first African-American and woman of color to lead the organization in its 27-year history. She will officially assume the role in September of this year.
  Scott will depart her role as the director of the National Sentencing Resource Counsel, where she leads
  
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• Bronx gunman booked for role in shooting that killed one, wounded three in hail of bullets

  28-06-2024 01:35 via amny.com
  
  Bronx detectives slapped the cuffs on Thursday on an alleged gunman involved in the shooting four people in an incident back in April, killing one of the victims.
  Yunior Calcano Baez, 21, allegedly unleashed the hail of bullets near the corner of East Mount Eden and Townsend Avenues on April 16. Cops report that Baez was one of two passengers on the back of two scooters who fired widely at around 6:15 p.m. that evening.
  Amidst the mayhem, 29-year-old Miguel Doleo took a bullet to his chest, and
  
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• Bronx gunman booked for role in shooting four people, killing one, in hail of bullets

  28-06-2024 01:35 via amny.com
  
  Bronx detectives slapped the cuffs on Thursday on an alleged gunman involved in the shooting four people in an incident back in April, killing one of the victims.
  Yunior Calcano Baez, 21, allegedly unleashed the hail of bullets near the corner of East Mount Eden and Townsend Avenues on April 16. Cops report that Baez was one of two passengers on the back of two scooters who fired widely at around 6:15 p.m. that evening.
  Amidst the mayhem, 29-year-old Miguel Doleo took a bullet to his chest, and
  
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• Gibson recognizes leaders in New York City’s Caribbean community

  27-06-2024 21:45 via bxtimes.com
  
  On Tuesday, June 24, from 6 to 8:30 p.m., Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson joined by Mistress of Ceremonies Juanita Lara — Development Director at BronxNet Television and a recipient of the Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY) grant — recognized outstanding leaders in the Bronx and New York City’s Caribbean Community at the Andrew Freedman Home located at 1125 Grand Concourse.
  The honorees this year were:Founder and CEO of Bullzii Marketing, LLC, Andrea Bullens;
  Director of
  
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• Successful mobilization effort for Jewish voters in Westchester County made major impact in Latimer/Bowman congressional primary

  27-06-2024 21:00 via bxtimes.com
  
  In the wake of George Latimer’s hard-fought win over incumbent Rep. Jamaal Bowman, the impact of Jewish voters in his victory is becoming clear. 
  As state Board of Elections results rolled in the night of June 25, Westchester County Executive George Latimer was named the winner before 10 p.m. Latimer won 44,371 votes (58.11%) and the incumbent Jamaal Bowman tallied 31,555 votes (41.32%).
  Westchester County Executive George Latimer celebrated his NY-16 primary victory over Rep. Jamaal
  
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