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The City Council celebrated adding service to an additional 11 branches of public libraries across the city, including the Mott Haven, Kingsbridge and Baychester branches in the Bronx.

Baychester

Three Bronx libraries expand to 7-day service starting in September

By Sadie Brown

Dozens of uniformed officers released white balloons into the night sky, Friday to pay tribute to the fallen detective from the 47th precinct in the Bronx, Didarul Islam.

Local precinct remembers its fallen detective in interfaith memorial

By Sadie Brown

As part of the community nonprofit, BronxWorks newly expanded legal services department, the organization has opened a new office for their Tenant Defense Program near Yankee Stadium.

As Bronx faces highest eviction rates, BronxWorks scales up legal aid with new office

By Sadie Brown

Surveillance footage showed 27-year-old Austin Morrishow firing a gun from behind a parked car. Authorities said one of Morrishow's bullets, which he possessed illegally seriously injured a 5-year-old girl who was sitting in the back of her father's car.

Bronx man sentenced to 15 years in connection with shooting that seriously injured 5-year-old girl

By Sadie Brown

NYPL and Nos Quedamos tackle the Bronx’s digital divide with free wifi to nearby buildings

Melrose

NYPL and Nos Quedamos tackle the Bronx’s digital divide with free wifi to nearby buildings

By Sadie Brown

File Photo of Burgers on a grill

Business

Under the CHEFS Act, Torres wants restaurants to get a tax credit to clean up their grills

By Sadie Brown

Sonrisa rum tasting draws Fat Joe fans to Throggs Neck

By Sadie Brown

Mayor Eric Adams emphasized Wednesday the city's commitment to keeping the commercial corridor in the South Bronx, known as the Hub, clean and free of drugs and illegal activity.

Mayor Adams tours The Hub after open drug market cleared out, but residents skeptical changes will hold

By Sadie Brown

Mayor Eric Adam's shared before and after photos of Roberto Clemente Plaza at the Hub, where NYC Sanitation and NYPD have set up mobile command centers since last week to finally put a stop to the open air drug market that has plagued the South Bronx commercial corridor for years.

The Hub

Roberto Clemente Plaza emerges clean following the first weekend after city shuts down The Hub open air drug market

By Sadie Brown

The Bronx Defenders grilled burgers and hotdogs for hundreds of hungry neighbors who had worked up an appetite enjoying music and games at the block party.

Community Celebration

Bronx Defenders host annual community block party

By Sadie Brown

The community nonprofit BronxWorks celebrated opening the season's first farm stand, offering fresh, local produce and healthy recipes to residents in the neighborhood.

Health

BronxWorks launches eighth season of fresh farm stands

By Sadie Brown

Police have identified the Bronx teen who died in custody over the weekend as 18-year-old Saniyah Cheatham, but have so far given few details about the circumstances around her death.

Longwood

Bronx teen dies in police custody in Longwood

By Sadie Brown

Elected representatives and business leaders in the South Bronx continued to sound the alarm Wednesday during a press conference about the public health crisis about open air drug use in the Hub around the Third Avenue commercial corridor.

News

Torres continues full court press on Adams admin over drug use in the Hub

By Sadie Brown

The New York City Department of Sanitation coordinated a multi team operation to dismantle an abandoned trash-filled trailer that had been badly wrecked on the Hutchinson River Parkway. It used heavy machinery to rip off portions of the trailer and haul away the piles of garbage inside of it.

News

DSNY dismantles abandoned trash-filled trailer on Hutchinson River Parkway

By Sadie Brown

deed theft

Edenwald

Retired NYPD detective, nurse, and attorney indicted in Bronx deed theft case, AG says

By Sadie Brown

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Politics

Torres says he likely won’t run for governor

By Sadie Brown

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