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Robbie Sequeira

Robbie Sequeira is a former senior staff writer for the Bronx Times.

Rosa Duarte, unsung Dominican hero.
Education

CUNY’s Dominican Studies founders tell the stories of unsung Dominican women and blackness

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A rendering depicts views from One Wall Street, New York’s biggest office-to-residential conversion.
Development

Office-to-residential conversion plan gets backing from Bronx pols Torres, Espaillat

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Business

Seven years after $34M Fordham Plaza renovation, DOT failing to find vendors for transit hub

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Health

Abortion care access explored at Morrisania Sexual Health Clinic, the first city-run clinic in the nation offering free abortion meds

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Development

Bally’s makes a bid for a casino at Trump Golf Links in Throggs Neck

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The city estimates office-to-residential conversions could create as many as 20,000 new homes for around 40,000 people over the next decade. One of the recommendations is allowing most office buildings constructed in 1990 or before to convert.
Development

Office-to-residential conversion gaining steam in NYC; 3 Bronx community boards join the ‘movement’

By Robbie Sequeira Conversation…
The Bronx has one of nation's highest rates of the food insecurity, and last year Food Bank provided nearly 32 million free meals to the borough, which accounts for more than 26% of the organization's total meal distribution across the five boroughs.
Community

Food Bank for NYC aims to go ‘beyond food’ to address food insecurity in the Bronx

By Robbie Sequeira Conversation…
Police & Fire

A Bronx cop attempts suicide inside the 47th Precinct, highlighting a pattern in law enforcement

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Environment

Brutal cold spells test Bronx public housing residents’ resilience, patience for stalled NYCHA repairs

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Police & Fire

Shootings and murders are down across NYC, but Bronxites are grappling with a rash of teen gun violence

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More than 200 Bronx families rallied in Albany, urging Gov. Kathy Hochul to lift the state's charter cap.
Education

Hochul eyes charter school expansion, what does that mean for Bronx parents?

By Robbie Sequeira Conversation…
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Development

Teachers union finds new office location at Bartow Avenue in Co-op City

By Robbie Sequeira Conversation…
A city report has found that NYC's Black unemployment rate is four times higher than that of whites.
News

Black unemployment in NYC four times higher than whites: report

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Sports

Presence of Liberty’s Jonquel Jones at Bronx girls basketball clinic looms large for next generation of hoopers

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Environment

Soundview’s 1471 Watson Ave., NYCHA’s first all-electric building conversion in 2023

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Shootings

Police trying to piece together fatal shooting of man found in SUV near Bronx school

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Help keep Orchard Beach beautiful with H
Tomorrow, 10 am

Orchard Beach Cleanup & Community Hang with Hibernica and Fernway
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Van Cortlandt House Museum presents Over
Aug. 24, 11 am

Overlapping Empires: A Solo Exhibition by Samantha Box
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Aug. 27, 4 pm

Meet and Greet with Former Yankees Pitcher Dellin Betances at Bronx Metro Store
Metro by T-Mobile

Solo and group exhibitions at Glyndor Ga
Sept. 3, 2 pm

Public Gallery Tour
Wave Hill

Join us for Septembers’s First Friday in
Sept. 4, 6 pm

September’s First Friday with Miles East
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum

Fall is peak migration time along the Hu
Sept. 13, 9:30 am

Fall Birding
Wave Hill

The Bronx Chamber of Commerce will host
Sept. 17, 6:30 pm

Bronx Chamber of Commerce Annual Gala on September 17, 2026; Tickets On Sale Now
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  • crime scene tape after cop shot at catalytic converter thieves in Staten IslandThe chilling last words spoken before teen gunman fatally shot 15-year-old boy in Bronx apartment
  • Conscrution workers remove scaffolding from the HighBridge Houses.NYC Buildings Department finalizes new rules aimed at more quickly taking down unsightly scaffolding
  • Firefighters at the scene of a four alarm fire at 3422 Dekalb Avenue. The fire would take two hours to bring under control. Four-alarm fire tears through Kingsbridge apartment building
  • 53721540175_cfcf0f3e1f_cMTA risks falling short of its 2040 zero-emission bus fleet goal, state comptroller audit finds

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