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CM Dinowitz Breaks Down Highlights of $107 Billion City Budget & $30 Million for C.D. 11

By SÍLE MOLONEY
City Councilman Eric Dinowitz (C.D. 11) gave a budget presentation to district residents on Wednesday, Aug. 2, highlighting some of the local initiatives that will benefit from funding, following the adoption of the City’s $107 billion budget for the 2024 fiscal year. The councilman went over the city budget process, discussed the major highlights from the latest adopted city budget, and broke down some of the $30 million plus in discretionary funding for capital projects and other funding secured for C.D. 11, in conjunction with Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson.

Volunteers Clean VCP Pond as “Daylighting” of Tibbetts Brook Advances

By JOSÉ A. GIRALT
For most of the year, visitors to Van Cortlandt Park’s Hester & Piero’s Mill Pond are usually entertained by throngs of duck and geese flying and landing on the water. However, when the weather gets warm, an unwelcome, invasive guest makes an appearance, hindering the fowls’ routine of take-off and landing. That invader goes by the name “water chestnut.”

Two Sought in Bronx Armed Robbery Pattern

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The NYPD said a man previously sought in connection to a robbery of a 14-year-old girl in Kingsbridge is now sought along with a second person in connection to a wider robbery pattern across various Bronx neighborhoods.

UPDATE Fordham Manor: Residents React to Daylight Shooting of Two Cousins & Two Brothers by St. James Park

By SÍLE MOLONEY
  Local residents gave their reaction to Norwood News to a shocking, multiple daylight shooting on East 193rd Street and Morris Avenue in Fordham Manor, beside St. James Park in which scores of people had gathered on Tuesday evening, July 11.   As previously reported, NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said during a press conference held at the crime scene on Tuesday night that at around 5.50 p.m. on Tuesday evening, video footage shows two people pull up on East 193rd Street by St. James Park on the scooter, wearing all black and ski masks.   He said the


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Kingsbridge: Man Steals Teen’s Iphone aboard MTA Bus

By SÍLE MOLONEY
  The NYPD is appealing to the public for help identifying and locating the person seen in this video who police officials say is wanted for questioning in connection to a theft that occurred on May 19, 2023 aboard an MTA BX7 bus at 265 West 231st Street in the Kingsbridge section of The Bronx. Video courtesy of the NYPD   The NYPD is appealing to the public for help identifying and locating the person seen in the attached video and photos who department officials say is wanted for questioning in connection to a theft that occurred in transit in


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Kingsbridge Heights Community Center Holds 10th Annual Neighborhood Festival

By MIRIAM QUIÑONES
Kingsbridge Heights Community Center (KHCC) hosted its 10th Annual Neighborhood Festival on Friday, June 16, celebrating both Pride and Juneteenth. The event was held at the center located at 3101 Kingsbridge Terrace.   KHCC is a settlement house founded in 1974 by community activists Janet Athanasidy, Patricia Burns, and Mary McLoughlin, serving the Kingsbridge Heights neighborhood and the Bronx. KHCC offers programs and services in multiple sites for more than 4,500 people annually from English language classes to childcare to early head start programs, a food pantry, gardening, a day summer camp and more. A planned barbecue was brought inside on the day due to a thunderstorm, but the


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Kingsbridge: Tandem Trailer Stuck under Elevated Subway for Hours

By DAVID GREENE
  A tandem tractor-trailer recently got trapped under the elevated subway in Kingsbridge for several hours, as police and fire units blocked off traffic in the area and two dozen MTA employees attempted to free the truck with minimal damage to the subway line.   According to an unnamed MTA official, the incident took place at 10:42 a.m. on Thursday, June 22, at the intersection of Broadway and West 231st Street. The truck, registered to S Auto Transport of Bunridge, Florida was still stuck under by 1:30 p.m. that afternoon. MTA officials said the overhead subway service was not impacted,


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