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Nas, LL Cool J, Fat Joe and More Break Ground With the Universal Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx

The hoi polloi of the New York hip hop scene turned out to break ground for Bronx Point, an apartment development that will include a permanent home of the Universal Hip Hop Museum. The $349 million mixed-use project at 50 East 150th Street in along the Harlem River waterfront in the South Bronx is being developed by L+M Development Partners and Type A Projects. Bronx Point’s first phase will deliver 542 permanently affordable apartments to the Lower Concourse neighborhood, along with approxi...

What It Will Take To Bring Strong Internet Service To Every NYC Student arrow Karen Dette, left, Director of Good Shepherd Services, hands a portable internet hot spot to student Jovanny Mendez, at West Brooklyn Community High School, in November 2020 Kathy Willens/AP/Shutterstock Over the past year, the pandemic has laid bare some of the deepest inequities in education. Chief among them: the digital divide between students with reliable internet access in their homes, a...

City To Reduce Speed Limit On 11 Roadways arrow Transportation Commissioner Hank Gutman near Conduit Boulevard and Pitkin Avenue in East New York, on May 10, 2021 Department of Transportation In an effort to prevent more car crashes, the de Blasio Administration will reduce the speed limit along 45 miles of streets at 11 locations in the four outer boroughs. Officials identified the roadways for having some of the highest rates of crashes in the city. The new speed limit...

Vets say they’ll march on Memorial Day, permit or not, but hope to do it ‘the right way’ Updated May 10, 2021; Posted May 10, 2021 The Vietnam Veterans of American march at the Memorial Day Parade on Forest Avenue on Sunday, May 26, 2019. (Staten Island Advance/Shira Stoll) Facebook Share STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Island’s veterans and their supporters intend to march on Memorial Day whether or not they receive a permit. U.S. Army veteran Lee Covino and U.S. Air Force veteran T...

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NYCs New Schools Chancellor Determined To Create "Amazing Opportunities" For Students arrow Bronx Executive Superintendent Meisha Porter doesn’t officially take the reins of the city’s public schools from Chancellor Richard Carranza until next week. But she is already joining Mayor de Blasio in her predecessor’s place at press conferences, and has begun making the rounds with local media. Porter, the first Black woman to lead the nation’s largest public school system, is from ...

New NYPD Database Offers "Narrow" Glimpse At Police Disciplinary Records arrow NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea and Mayor Bill de Blasio at a press conference in February. John Minchillo/AP/Shutterstock The NYPD released its first set of internal police disciplinary records on Monday, publishing an online database that critics say falls short of the sweeping transparency initiative that Mayor Bill de Blasio promised last year. The release comes almost nine months after raci...

A Look Back at New York Citys Biggest Snowstorms By Pat Kiernan , Annika Pergament and Jamie Stelter New York City PUBLISHED 10:04 AM ET Feb. 02, 2021 PUBLISHED 10:04 AM EST Feb. 02, 2021 SHARE This ...

New York City council seeks to reduce NYPDs footprint with sweeping bill package. New York Councilman Joe Borelli and lieutenant Randy Sutton weigh in on Fox & Friends First. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday raised the possibility that a federal monitor could be put on the New York Police Department (NYPD), as well as challenged candidates vying for Mayor Bill de Blasio’s position during the election later this year to speak out on their proposals for police reform. The state Attorne...