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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 approximately 2.8 acres of public open space The Hip Hop Museum will be just one of several cultural and co...

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, and those without. Now, as politicians pledge to rebuild the school system better, and stimulus dolla...

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 limits will go into effect in the coming weeks, and the NYPD will allow a 60-day grace period before tick...

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 Ted Cohen said during a press conference at Hero Park in Tompkinsville that they’d prefer to procee...