Ocasio-Cortez Campaign Workers Ratify Strongest Union Contract Yet

Workers for “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress” announced on June 10 the ratification of a new collective bargaining agreement. They said the wall-to-wall bargaining unit, represented by the Campaign Workers Guild (CWG), includes all non-managerial staff, including employees in part-time, hourly, and full-time roles.

The Late Sandra Pabon to be Honored with Street Co-Naming on Bainbridge Avenue

Democratic City Council Member Eric Dinowitz (C.D. 11) announced on June 20 that he successfully championed the upcoming co-naming of the intersection of E. 204th Street and Bainbridge Avenue in Norwood as “Sandra Pabon Way” in honor of the late Sandra Pabon who had served as the chaplain of the 49th Precinct Clergy Council, as well as Democratic District Leader and Democratic State Committee Woman in Assembly District 80. As reported, Pabon died in June 2023.

B.R.A.G. Senior VP David Caba Honored as Trailblazer

Cure violence interrupters, Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence (B.R.A.G.), announced in late May that City & State publication recognized David Caba, senior vice president with Good Shepherd Services, the nonprofit which runs the B.R.A.G. program, on its Nonprofit Trailblazers list. “Thank you for all of your hard work!” B.R.A.G. members wrote in response to the news.

NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi Celebrates Pride Month

NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi held a celebration and march around the facility’s campus in Morris Park on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, with staff and patients of the public hospital participating in the event. 

Annual Salute to the Land of the Free Fireworks Display Held at Orchard Beach to Mark Fourth of July

Democratic Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson, Republican City Council Member Kristy Marmorato (CD 13), Rafael Rogers, president of the Business Initiative Corporation of New York (BICNY), Rafael Rogers; Julias Drake, director of operations for the Bronx Tourism Council, The Grucci Family, “America’s First Family of Fireworks,” and Monica Morales, emcee and PIX 11 reporter and host of “Monica Makes It Happen,” joined together for the Annual Salute to the Land of the Free Fireworks Extravaganza at Pelham Parkway’s Orchard Beach on Thursday, June 2, to advance of Independence Day,