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Hudson Manor Terrace at West 237th Street is now co-named Bill Stone Way following a ceremony on Sunday, May 7.

After a long wait filled with many debates Gov. Kathy Hochul signed and approved a $229 billion state budget. But as expected there were compromises from all parties involved.

International Leadership Charter School has faced a backlash from the community along with vandalism of the construction of its new middle school. But now, the administration is slapping back, just days before another rally against them was scheduled.

The threat of a gas shutdown affecting 827 units at Amalgamated Housing Corp. has seemingly dissolved overnight. Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz and state Sen. Robert Jackson succeeded in nudging state housing officials to the table Friday, May 5 for a meeting with cooperators, Con Edison, and representatives from the city’s buildings department.

Several local groups and politicians have criticized the response of the New York Police Department and elected figures in the aftermath of the killing of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless Michael Jackson impersonator, who was choked to death last week by a 24-year-old former Marine on a Manhattan subway train.

Once upon a time in America, Israel’s existence was held in as much high esteem as motherhood and apple pie. Even today, what reasonable person here would not want to stamp out antisemitism?

To the editor: Back in 2021, Mayor Eric Adams ran on a campaign promise to increase the city’s parks department budget to 1 percent of the city’s overall budget. But here we are in 2023, and the parks department continues to run on fumes at 0.6 percent. 

Some older adults in the northwest Bronx have a hard time keeping up with technology as it progresses in our society. In Riverdale Senior Services, they might think a “tablet” is their daily dose of medicine or “swiping” and “tapping” are dance moves.

Police said a 29-year-old man from Pelham Parkway has been arrested on hate crime and other charges for tossing a brick through the window of his neighbor's building during the Passover holiday on April 7.

A smoke shop at 206 W. 231st St., was raided by the New York City’s Sheriff Department on Monday, April 17 at approximately 2 p.m. Officers were seen on video taking large plastic bags of merchandise out of 206 Candy & Convenience Inc. and placed in a black van.