NY Lottery: One Top-Prize Winning Ticket Sold in The Bronx

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The New York Lottery announced that one top-prize winning ticket was sold for the April 4 TAKE 5 midday drawing at Three Star Candy Store  located at 1673 Metropolitan Avenue in the Parkchester section of The Bronx, which sold one prize-winning ticket worth $20,703.

UPDATE Court Extends Temporary Stop on State Homecare Program Transition as Advocates Hold Rally

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Advocates for older and disabled New Yorkers and their caregivers reacted on Friday, April 4, to a same day federal court ruling which has extended a temporary halt to a controversial, 3-month transition by NYS Department of Health (DOH) of its home care program to a new single, statewide financial intermediary (FI), in place of around 600 individual FIs. The deadline by which program participants (consumers and workers) were due to transition to the new FI was April 1, with the transition having started in early January, but there is at least some evidence that suggests it was not going as smoothly as anticipated.   

Marble Hill: Person Sought for Robbery of 35-Year-Old Woman

By SÍLE MOLONEY
New York City Mayor Eric Adams addressed New Yorkers on Wednesday, April 2, reacting to news that Judge Dale E. Ho of the Federal District Court in The NYPD is asking for the public’s help identifying the person seen in the attached media who they say is wanted in connection with a robbery that occurred in Marble Hill. 

Mayor Addresses New Yorkers after DOJ Dismisses Definitively Bribery & Other Charges Brought Against Him

By SÍLE MOLONEY
New York City Mayor Eric Adams addressed New Yorkers on Wednesday, April 2, reacting to news that Judge Dale E. Ho of the Federal District Court in Manhattan has dismissed “with prejudice,” on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice, the bribery and corruption charges brought against the mayor in September 2024, following a November 2023 federal probe into his campaign finances relating to his 2021 mayoral election campaign. On Thursday, April 3, the mayor announced he had dropped out of the upcoming Democratic mayoral primary and is now running as an independent, as reported by Politico.

Regal Movie Theater Opens at Concourse Plaza

By ARIEL PACHECO
The Regal Concourse movie theater held its grand opening, as promised, on March 18 at the former site of Multiplex Cinema, which closed in May 2024, on Concourse Plaza in the Concourse section of The Bronx. The latest opening now brings the number of movie theaters in the borough to a grand total of two, the other being The Mall at Bay Plaza in the East Bronx.