City Agencies Host Bronx “Idea Generation” Session on “The People’s Money”

By SÍLE MOLONEY

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced the launch, on Sept. 14, of The People’s Money initiative, a citywide participatory budgeting process, whereby New Yorkers decide how to spend allotted funds to improve their local communities. Now, the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA), NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) are highlighting an upcoming series of boroughwide, idea generation sessions on “The People’s Money.” At these five borough-based, idea generation sessions, CEC and local partners will invite residents to represent their neighborhood in the participatory budgeting (PB) process and decide how to spend specific mayoral expense funding of $5 million

By SÍLE MOLONEY

November is American Diabetes Month, a time to raise awareness about the disease and its complications, if left untreated. In New York State an estimated 1.6 million people, or 10.5 percent of the adult population, have diabetes, and the incidence is 16 percent in The Bronx. Throughout November, Montefiore Medical Center is running a series of events and activities to educate and encourage Bronx residents to manage their diabetes. Montefiore held its kick-off event marking the month at Einstein College of Medicine, located at 1300 Morris Park Avenue in the Morris Park section of The Bronx, on

By ERIC ADAMS

Tuesday, Nov. 8, is Election Day in New York City – your last chance to join millions of New Yorkers in making your voices heard and casting your ballots in these critical elections. The polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. If you can’t vote on Tuesday, you can also vote early in person! Early voting polls will be open through Sunday, Nov. 6. Your poll site may have changed, so it’s important to check your poll site location and its hours [of opening] before you vote at nycvotes.org. This year, voting is more important than

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Editor’s Note: Please also refer to our latest Bridge & Street Closures article as well as our latest Out & About listing which includes details of several Halloween events. New York City officials have advised that they are launching “Trick-or-Streets,” the first-ever activation of nearly 100 car-free streets citywide for Halloween evening, Monday, Oct. 31, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Halloween Open Streets will take place on dozens of the City’s “Open Streets” and on other newly pedestrianized streets. DOT officials say they are excited to partner with the following local organizations to facilitate Open Streets for special

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Public Health Solutions (PHS), a Manhattan-based 501C corporation opened a new Neighborhood WIC center in the East Tremont section of The Bronx on Wednesday, Oct. 26. According to PHS representatives, the aim of the center is to connect women, infants, and children (WIC) in the surrounding community with government health and nutrition assistance. The grand opening included a ribbon-cutting ceremony, a speech from PHS president and CEO, Lisa David, as well as remarks from Assembly Member Yudelka Tapia (A.D. 86), who represents the Bronx neighborhoods of University Heights, Morris Heights, Mount Eden, Kingsbridge, Tremont and Fordham, and from Jeffrey Laufer, director of

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The NYPD has launched a murder investigation following the fatal shooting of a 62-year-old man in Williamsbridge. According to an NYPD spokesperson, on Saturday, Oct. 22, at approximately 5.08 a.m., police responded to a “ShotSpotter activation,” a device used to track the sound of gunshots, at 763 East 219th Street. Upon arrival, officers from the 47th Precinct found a 62-year-old male, unconscious and unresponsive, with a gunshot wound to his head. “EMS responded to the location and transported the victim to NYC Health & Hospitals/Jacobi, where he was subsequently pronounced deceased,” the spokesperson said. There are no

By SÍLE MOLONEY

OVER 200 bags of donations were received for recently arrived asylum seekers in New York City during a clothing drive held by local organization, City Island Rising, over the weekend ending Sunday, Oct. 23, as other Bronxites took part in the annual Tour de Bronx cycle event. The organization’s representatives said the clothes and other items will be donated to those in need in the coming days. Norwood News recently reported on a dispute among City Island neighbors over a since abandoned shelter which was being built at Orchard Beach in the Northeast Bronx to house recently arrived asylum seekers. As

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announced that a three-dose course of the hepatitis B vaccine, HEPLISAV-B, fully protects adults living with HIV who have never been vaccinated against, or infected with, the hepatitis B virus (HBV), according to study findings presented on Friday, Oct. 21, at the Infectious Diseases (ID) Week conference in Washington, D.C. The NIAID, part of the National Institutes of Health, is sponsoring the ongoing Phase 3 ACTG A5379 clinical study. HBV is spread primarily through sexual contact and through the sharing of contaminated needles. It can cause chronic hepatitis B infection

By ARIEL PACHECO

Grammy award-winning rapper and Hip-Hop pioneer, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, visited P.S. 207 in Kingsbridge on Friday, Oct. 14, to speak with elementary school students about how to deal with bullies, believing in themselves, and to discuss his new picture book, “Darryl’s Dream.” A founding member of the legendary, Hip-Hop group, Run-D.M.C., who first emerged on the Hip-Hop scene in the 1980s, McDaniels, a Queens native who spent much of his youth in foster care, emphasized to the third, fourth and fifth graders at the Kingsbridge school, the importance of chasing their dreams. An impassioned McDaniels, who was adopted