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UPDATE Rivera & Bronx Doctors Continue Campaign to Pass the NY Health Act ahead of Budget Finalization

By SÍLE MOLONEY
State Sen. Gustavo Rivera (S.D. 33) joined two Bronx-based doctors at an event at Lehman College on Saturday, Feb. 28, as he continued a years-long campaign to urge Bronxites to call on his colleagues in State government to become champions of The NY Health Act and ensure its passage during the current State legislative session in Albany. Legislators are currently preparing to finalize the next State budget.

NYC Health Dept Now Accepting New Mobile Food Vending Applications for U.S. Veterans & People with Disabilities

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The NYC Health Department announced Friday, March 12, the acceptance of applications to join the mobile food vending waiting list for supervisory licenses for U.S. military veterans and people with disabilities. As the first reopening of a supervisory license waiting list since the program launched in 2023, health department officials said the opportunity expands access to mobile food vending permits while maintaining strong public health standards. 

UPDATE Bronx Daycare Provider & Husband Get 25 Years to Life for Murder of Nicholas Feliz Dominici in Fentanyl Poisoning Case

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced Wednesday, March 4, that the operator of a Bronx home daycare center and her husband were each sentenced to 25 years to life in prison by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Margaret Clancy for the accidental death due to fentanyl poisoning of 22-month-old Nicholas Feliz Domenici on Sept. 15, 2023, and for the exposure of three other children to fentanyl who survived the poisoning.

UPDATE Former Bronx City Councilman Andy King is back in NYC after Being Stuck in Mexico amid Cartel Unrest

By DAVID GREENE
Former New York City Councilman Andy King (C.D. 12) is reportedly back in The Bronx after he got stranded in Mexico with a party of 25 New Yorkers. He said the group sheltered in place at a hotel in Cancún following the recent snow blizzard that shut down New York airports and as simultaneously, violence erupted across Mexico following the killing of the alleged leader of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho.”  

Eastchester: Man Charged with Murder in Fatal Gas Explosion at NYCHA’s Boston Secor Houses

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced Wednesday, Feb. 25, that a man has been charged with second-degree murder, burglary, assault and other related charges for allegedly instigating an early morning gas leak in a NYCHA apartment building in the Eastchester section of The Bronx which resulted in an explosion and fire that killed a tenant and caused dozens of other tenants to be evacuated at the height of the year’s first major snowstorm. Read our initial coverage of the fire, click here.  

Twenty-Two City Council Members Call on State to Give City Power to Tax Millionaires

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Twenty-two members, a minority, of the New York City Council’s 51 member-body released a joint statement on Wednesday, Feb. 25, calling on the State legislature and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to pass the Fair Share Act, legislation they say would grant New York City the authority to enact a 2% income tax increase on millionaires.