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Detainee dead in plunge from Bronx jail barge fought to overcome 24 years in prison: ‘He was trying to do the right thing’

NEW YORK — After 24 years behind bars, mostly in state prison, Gregory Acevedo seemed like a survivor to his sister and mother — so they don’t understand what it was about being in the custody of the New York City Department of Correction that pushed him over the edge.

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Bronx crash involving NYPD vehicle hurts 10, including a child; 2 people critically injured

NEW YORK — Ten people were injured, including a child, in a crash Thursday involving a lights-flashing NYPD SUV that roared through a Bronx intersection, police said.

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Eight pedestrians injured after NYPD squad car jumps curb in The Bronx

The incident occurred on near corner of Hoe and Westchester Avenues

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After storms, NYC moving location of planned migrant shelter

A facility to temporarily house migrants being sent to New York City will now be located closer to Manhattan instead of a remote corner of the Bronx

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It’s back to the Bronx for Aaron Judge and Yankees as slugger aims for No. 62

NEW YORK — Aaron Judge will surely get a hero’s welcome when he returns home to the Bronx on Friday night. And further history may be in the making as No. 99 needs just one more — as John Sterling would say — “Judgian blast” to break the American League…

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Why Eric Adams is building a migrant ‘tent city’ in The Bronx

Thousands of people seeking asylum have recently arrived in New York City, where an overburdened shelter system is strained by compounding crises. The mayor’s latest plan worries advocates who fear it could violate right-to-shelter mandate, Alex Woodward reports

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‘There had to be somewhere better’: New York criticized for building migrant tents in flood-prone lot

Republican governors have sent thousands of people to the city this summer, maxing out its shelter system

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Mayor Adams likely to beef up police presence as plans for migrant tent camps in Bronx move ahead, official says

NEW YORK — Out of public safety concerns, Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is likely to surge more cops into the Bronx neighborhood where it plans to soon start housing hundreds of Latin American migrants in tent camps, according to the local Council member.

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AOC rival Tina Forte’s husband and son were caught by FBI in drug and gun bust at Bronx family warehouse

‘As a result of my son’s conduct our lives were turned upside down. My son knows he has no more chances with me,’ Tine Forte says

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New York woman makes miraculous escape after crane smashes her car

Danielle Cruz, 22, suffered minor injuries when the crane, attached to a boom truck, collapsed and crushed her car in the Bronx

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Detainee has died after jump from Bronx jail barge into East River in escape attempt

NEW YORK — A detainee who tried to escape by jumping from a jail barge in the Bronx into the East River has died, the Daily News has learned.

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‘Every kid in New York’s dream.’ Kentucky among blue bloods pursuing top players from Big Apple.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — John Calipari sent the message out to his more than 1.5 million Twitter followers late on Sunday night, complete with the logistical information to specifically place the Kentucky men’s basketball head coach and one of his assistants, Orlando Antigua.

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Bronx mobster survived five attacks in a year before he was rubbed out on his son’s orders, prosecutors say

NEW YORK — The first attack on Sally Daz came more than a year before his murder — a man he’d never met stepped up to him in his Bronx driveway, asked him for a job, then punched him in the neck.

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Cardi B dodges jail with guilty plea for Queens strip club brawl

NEW YORK — Bronx-born rapper Cardi B pleaded guilty on Thursday and was sentenced to community service for her role in a bottle-throwing attack at a strip club in Queens.

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Cardi B makes surprise $100k donation to her former Bronx school

Rapper 29, also visited two other back-to-school events in association with the Community Capacity Development programme

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Robbery suspect killed by NYC subway train after fleeing police

The man was allegedly fleeing from police after a rider was held up at gunpoint in the Bronx early Tuesday

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Justice Sotomayor visits Bronx for bronze bust unveiling

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor returned Thursday to the Bronx community where she grew up to see the unveiling of a bronze bust of the 68-year-old justice at a shopping center in the heart of the community

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Oswaldo Cabrera and Gerrit Cole power Yankees to doubleheader sweep of Twins

NEW YORK — Aaron Judge got one home run closer to Roger Maris, Gerrit Cole mowed down the Twins with 14 strikeouts and the decimated Yankees swept a doubleheader in the Bronx.

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Aaron Judge hits 55th home run, Yankees come back to beat Twins in 12 innings in Game 1

NEW YORK — The weather felt a little like October in the Bronx for the first game of Wednesday’s doubleheader against the Twins. But the Yankees lineup felt like it was mid-March and the teams were playing a spring training game.

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The wealth divide linked to 370 heat deaths in New York each year

Citizen scientists are mapping which neighborhoods shoulder the highest ‘heat burden’

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Mayor's office allows Trump's company to host Saudi-tied golf tournament in NYC

NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump’s company has gotten the green light to host a golf tournament in the Bronx sponsored by the Saudi Arabian government, infuriating relatives of 9/11 victims already fuming over a similar event held at a Trump course in neighboring New Jersey last month.

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Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney wins NY congressional seat over Sen. Alessandra Biaggi

NEW YORK — U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney was declared the Democratic winner in Tuesday’s primary in New York’s newly drawn 17th District in the Hudson Valley over his progressive opponent, New York state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi, D-Bronx, by the Associated Press.

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Sinkholes on NYC streets are a growing danger as climate change brings heavy rain that breaks sewers

NEW YORK — New Yorkers stand on ground that is crumbling beneath their feet — and Angelo Bastone has seen it for himself.

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Blue Jays pitcher Alek Manoah very calmly called out Gerrit Cole for getting mad at him

Alek Manoah had a message for Gerrit Cole after Sunday's little dustup in the Bronx.

The Independent UK

Three-year-old girl miraculously expected to survive fall from third-storey window in the Bronx

The little girl landed on scaffolding and was rushed to New York Presbyterian Hospital

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