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U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres urged City Hall to follow through with social services and treatment plans for people who frequented Roberto Clemente Plaza to use drugs that were displaced when the city cleared the notorious open air drug market last month. Local South Bronx residents say the city isn't doing enough to help and that drug use isn't truly being addressed, only relocated.

EXCLUSIVE: Torres calls for treatment plans for those city is chasing away from Roberto Clemente Plaza

By Sadie Brown
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.
Police & Fire

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.
Community

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.
Williamsbridge

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

By Sadie Brown
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Business

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

By Sadie Brown
Bronx-born rapper and entrepreneur, Joseph Cartagena, also known as Fat Joe autographed bottles of Sonrisa rum at a Throggs Neck liquor store Tuesday. The hip hop legend partnered with the brand, which gives back to small business owners in Puerto Rico, where the rum is distilled.
Throggs Neck

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
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Edenwald

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

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  • The senior class at Fordham High School for the Arts produced its first-ever, entirely student led production. A courtroom drama called "Reasonable Doubt," which tells the story of Elena Price who is on trial for the murder of her husband, London Price. Fordham High School for the Arts launches first student-produced, original play, ‘Reasonable Doubt’
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