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UPDATE Inquiring Photographer: Thoughts on Iran and the Possibility of an Attack on the United States

By DAVID GREENE
This week, we asked readers their opinion on the current situation in Iran, and if they think America could be attacked at home in retaliation for having started a bombing campaign, together with Israel, against Iran on Feb. 28, killing the Iranian leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as around 175 people, mostly children, after a school was struck. Since then, Reuters report that around 3,134 Iranians have been killed. 

Cold Chill: ICE Sightings Reported Across The Borough

By DAVID GREENE & SÍLE MOLONEY
As the Trump administration tried to quell the outrage building across the country after two American citizens were shot and killed by U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minneapolis on Jan. 7 (Renee Goode) and Jan. 24 (Alex Pretti), ICE agent sightings were reported by various Bronx and other New York residents in early February in the Bronx neighborhoods of Riverdale, Highbridge, and Throggs Neck, as well as in Yonkers.

UPDATE Inquiring Photographer: Thoughts on Accountability over the “Epstein Files”

By DAVID GREENE
This week, we asked readers for their opinions on the “Epstein Files” and if they believe anyone else will be held accountable for sex crimes or for assisting Jeffrey Epstein with the sex crimes he perpetrated. It’s been widely reported that Epstein died in custody in 2019 as he awaited his trial on sex trafficking charges. He was convicted a decade earlier and spent 13 months in a county jail, which included a work-release program, for soliciting prostitution from a minor.

UPDATE Eighteen in Custody after Organized “Takeover” of The Mall at Bay Plaza by Teens Results in Chaos

By SÍLE MOLONEY & DAVID GREENE
Eighteen people were taken into custody on Monday, Feb. 16, police said, after an estimated one hundred to five hundred teens participated seemingly in an organized “takeover” of The Mall at Bay Plaza in the Baychester section of The Bronx. When contacted for details of the charges, the NYPD said the details of any charges / summonses were not yet available.

UPDATE Dinowitz Challenger Evers Calls on AM to Return Donation from Karp after Epstein Files Disclosure

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Morgan Evers who launched her campaign to challenge local Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz on Dec. 7, for his Assembly District 81 seat in the upcoming June primaries, is calling on the seasoned politician who has held the seat for four decades to return a campaign contribution received from prominent New York attorney Brad Karp, after the latest Epstein file disclosures by the U.S. Department of Justice reveal emails exchanged between the deceased convicted pedophile and representatives of Karp.

Botanical Square Residents Without Gas Since 2024

By DAVID GREENE
Bronx residents of four apartment buildings at Botanical Square in Bedford Park have been without a gas service for over a year since a Webster Avenue water main on Dec. 16, 2024, caused havoc in the local area, as reported at the time.