Tag: Bronx (NYC)

A Bronx Teacher Asked. Tommy Orange Answered.

Tommy Orange sat at the front of a classroom in the Bronx, listening as a group of high school students discussed his novel “There There.” A boy wearing blue glasses raised his hand. “All the characters have some form of disconnection, even trauma,” Michael Almanzar, 19, said. “That’s the world we live in. That’s all […]

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Will $1 Billion Given to a Bronx Medical School Improve the Borough’s Health?

For Trevor Barker, a first-year student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, the $1 billion gift from a longtime former professor that will eliminate tuition at the medical school could well be life-changing. Mr. Barker works two campus jobs and sends money home to his mother in California. He had expected to […]

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Mayor Adams Is Sued Over Failure to Comply With New Housing Laws

The Legal Aid Society sued Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday for not complying with new laws meant to address rising homelessness and the influx of tens of thousands of migrants. In the coming days, the City Council is expected to join the society, after voting last week to authorize a lawsuit. The move comes as […]

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Photos of the Winter Snowstorm Moving Through the Northeast

A nor’easter disrupted daily life across the Northeast on Tuesday, upending school and work commutes, as rain turned to a slushy mix and then to snow in many regions. Some parts of New England were braced for more snow than they were likely to get as the storm rerouted itself. New York City was expecting […]

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New York Reimagined Subsidized Housing. What Happened?

This story is from Headway, an initiative from The New York Times exploring the world’s challenges through the lens of progress. Headway looks for promising solutions, notable experiments and lessons from what’s been tried. “A beacon.” That was how Shaun Donovan, former commissioner of New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development, heralded Via […]

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Tania Tetlow Is Fordham University’s First Woman President

Tania Tetlow, the newish president of Fordham University, was in New Orleans, isolating with a case of Covid over winter break, when she learned that Claudine Gay had been forced to resign as Harvard’s president. She did not know all the facts of the case, but it was still a sobering moment. Dr. Gay had […]

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Bronx Lawyer and Son Charged in Immigration Fraud Scheme

A Bronx lawyer and his son were arrested on Monday and charged with orchestrating a seven-year immigration scheme that defrauded hundreds of immigrants and caused some of them to be deported, federal prosecutors said. The lawyer, Kofi Amankwaa, 69, and his son, Kofi Amankwaa Jr., 37, advised clients seeking green cards to sign petitions under […]

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How Rikers Island Became New York’s Largest Mental Institution

One night in fall 2015, an 18-year-old woman was standing on a subway platform in the Bronx when a homeless man named James Dolo came up from behind and used both hands to push her onto the tracks, the police said, injuring her. Jailed on an attempted murder charge, Mr. Dolo, then 38, soon was […]

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Plagiarism Allegations Against Claudine Gay

To the Editor: Re “Why Claudine Gay Should Go,” by John McWhorter (column, nytimes.com, Dec. 21): Mr. McWhorter argues that Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard, should be held to the same academic standards as the institution’s undergraduates. If only that were true! When I was a graduate student there in the late 1990s, I […]

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Man Charged With Hate Crimes in Stabbing of 2 Teens at Grand Central

A Bronx man faces charges of attempted murder and assault as hate crimes after using an anti-white slur before stabbing two teenage sisters at a restaurant in Grand Central Terminal on Christmas Day, according to officials and court records. The girls, 16 and 14, were visiting New York from Paraguay and were with their parents […]

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New York Suspends Engineer Who Inspected Bronx Building That Collapsed

An engineer who oversaw inspections of a Bronx apartment building that partially collapsed on Monday “misdiagnosed” a column that was holding up the building, calling it a “decorative” element in plans he filed in June, city officials said Friday. Mayor Eric Adams and the city’s buildings commissioner, James Oddo, said the city had suspended the […]

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How the Israel-Hamas War Tore Apart Public Defenders in the Bronx

Four weeks before Hamas attacked Israel, a group of public defenders packed a bright, airy room in the Bronx for mandatory antisemitism training. The hourslong gathering was the consequence of a legal settlement stemming from an ugly dispute that had festered at the Bronx Defenders, one of the country’s most influential organizations providing legal services […]

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These House Republicans Could Be the Targets of New York Redistricting

New York’s top court handed Democrats a long-coveted victory on Tuesday: the power to redraw the state’s 26 congressional districts before the 2024 elections. The party is widely expected to use it to target as many as six Republican-held swing seats. Even subtle shifts in the lines from Syracuse to Long Island could make it […]

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48 Million Americans Live With Addiction. Here’s How to Get Them Help That Works.

Raina Mcmahan, a 42-year-old recovery coach, spent roughly half her life seeking treatment for her own opioid use disorder. She tried detoxing multiple times at different inpatient facilities, but those programs usually discharged her after a week or two without any follow-up care. She paid one doctor $500 to treat her with buprenorphine, a medication […]

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Bronx Collapse Raises Questions About Oversight of Aging Buildings

Around 3 p.m. on Monday, Maria Vargas was in her daughter’s room on the third floor of their Bronx apartment building when cracks shot across the walls. One wall was split down the middle. Ms. Vargas, 55, whose husband is the building’s superintendent, joined a mob racing for the exit. Then the entire corner of […]

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Her Son Was Promised a Special Education Class. He’s Still Waiting.

Taslima Amjad has called, emailed or visited government offices in New York City nearly every day for months, in search of help for her 3-year-old nonverbal son. Her son has physical difficulties and developmental delays and needs one-on-one help and therapy sessions to learn. He also has the right — enshrined in federal law — […]

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Former Police Officer Admits Helping Her Lover, a Gang Leader, Flee the Country

A former New York City police officer confessed on Thursday to helping a man who prosecutors said was her lover, the leader of a Bronx gang called the Shooting Boys, flee a homicide investigation and escape to the Dominican Republic. The former officer, Gina L. Mestre, 33, of Mohegan Lake, N.Y., admitted in Federal District […]

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5-Year-Old Boy and Parents Are Stabbed to Death in Bronx Apartment

A 5-year-old boy and his mother were found fatally stabbed in their Bronx apartment on Sunday, and the boy’s father was found stabbed to death in the hallway. All three members of the family — Jonathan Rivera, 38; his partner, Hanoi Peralta, 33; and their son, Kayden — were pronounced dead early Sunday morning in […]

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Behind 94 Acts of Shocking Violence, Years of Glaring Mistakes

The last breakdown of Marcus Gomez began in full view of the people whose job it was to stop it. First, Mr. Gomez, a slight 45-year-old who was homeless and had long lived with schizophrenia, started hearing voices. Then he stripped off his clothes and stalked naked through the halls of his transitional housing program. […]

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Migrants in NYC Search for Beds as City Stops Offering Shelter to Some

On Thursday, Vinicius Funes, a 26-year-old migrant from Honduras, went in search of a bed. He had spent two nights waiting in a chair at New York City’s official arrival center for migrants at the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. He was then given a handout directing him to what he thought was a homeless […]

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Please, New Yorkers Beg, Make the Weekend Rain Stop

The group chat had been filled with balloon and champagne emojis for days. At last, Candace Neilsa and five friends who live across New York City had managed to pick a date to have a “girls’ night out.” But when that date, Sept. 29, came, the rain, too, followed — just as it seemingly has […]

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Breakers Grapple With Hip-Hop’s Big Olympic Moment

The thumping music died to a whisper upon Alien Ness’s request. As the veteran breaker — never “break dancer” — stalked and snaked around the room, his many rings caught the spotlight that illuminated the dance floor. Ness coached a few dozen amateurs — men, women, Black, white, Asian — during his footwork class before […]

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Where the Migrants Who Came to New York Are Living Now

New York City has long been a magnet for new Americans. More than a third of its residents — over three million people — are immigrants. Before the pandemic interrupted migration patterns, the census tallied about 60,000 foreign-born people annually in the city who had been living abroad a year earlier. What’s different about the […]

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Children Are the Casualties in NYC’s Daily Struggle for Housing

Overcrowding is common in the neighborhood. Ms. Zhao and her family “were trying their best to survive, to make rent, to have every room occupied,” said Alexa Aviles, the City Council representative in Sunset Park. The city has turned away from these realities, she told me, “even as it knows that overcrowding is problematic.” To […]

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At Bronx Day Care, a Trap Door Hid a Cache of Drugs Where Child Died

Days after a 1-year-old died and three children exposed to drugs at a Bronx day care site were hospitalized, investigators uncovered a trap door under a play area that was hiding fentanyl, other narcotics and drug paraphernalia. The police had already discovered a kilogram of fentanyl near nap mats at Divino Niño on Morris Avenue, […]

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New York City Loses Contentious Bid for Cricket Stadium to Long Island

A contentious plan backed by Mayor Eric Adams and the International Cricket Council to build a temporary, 34,000-seat stadium in a Bronx park is dead, following heated opposition from local elected officials and some amateur cricket players. The stadium was to host part of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup next June. The venue will […]

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Fentanyl Found Near Nap Mats at Day Care Where Boy Died, Police Say

A kilogram of fentanyl was found near mats that children used for napping at a Bronx day care site where one toddler died and three other children were hospitalized last week, the police said on Monday night. Chief Joseph Kenny, the Police Department’s chief of detectives, explained just how close to the children the potent […]

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2 Charged With Murder in Day Care Death of 1-Year-Old

A day care center operator and her neighbor were charged with murder in the death of a 1-year-old boy who was exposed to opioids at the center, the police said. Grei Mendez, 36, who ran Divino Niño in the Bronx, and Carlisto Acevedo Brito, a 41-year-old man who lived at the address listed for the […]

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Police Questioning Person in Suspected Opioid Death at Bronx Day Care

At least one person was in police custody and being questioned on Saturday in connection with the death of a 1-year-old boy who was apparently exposed to an opioid at a state-licensed Bronx day care center on Friday, according to the police. Three other children were hospitalized after showing signs of opioid exposure at the […]

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