Bronx Times News Headlines Archive for August 16, 2025

Lyft, which operates Citi Bike, will implement age verification within three months to prevent underage riders, following a request from First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro.

AMNY

EXCLUSIVE: Age verification coming to Citi Bike in bid to put the brakes on underage riders

Smiling millennial mother holding her newborn son close to her chest, head and shoulders, close up

AMNY

Op-Ed | Nourishing the next generation together

Police officers examine evidence of a shooting with yellow crime scene tape stretched

AMNY

Woman shot in the butt at Bronx bar, suspect at large: cops

Osbert Orduna, CEO of The Cannabis Place in Queens, has been one of the lead organizers of the movement to protect dispensaries impacted by New York’s revised school-distance rule and is among 12 licensees suing to block the change.

AMNY

‘We followed the rules’: 12 NYC cannabis businesses sue state to block school-distance rule change

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani is set to announce an expansion of New York City's community-based gun violence prevention program in three Brooklyn and Manhattan neighborhoods, directing $4.8 million in previously budgeted funding toward organizations that work to stop shootings before they happen, amNewYork has learned.

EXCLUSIVE: Mamdani to expand gun violence prevention program in Bushwick, Harlem and Washington Heights

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