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UPDATE 15,000 Nurses Continue Day 2 of Their Strike Action Against Three Private Hospital Systems

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Nurses at Montefiore, Mt. Sinai, and New York Presbyterian hospital systems, who are also members of New York State Nurses Association union, continued their strike action on Day 2, Tuesday, Jan. 13. They are seen here outside Montefiore Medical Center in Norwood. Read more about their concerns in our recent story here, prior to strike action and our follow-up story on Day 1 of the strike here.  

Six Bronx Men Arrested in Drug Packaging Mill Sting Operation, Cocaine, Cash & Fentanyl Seized  

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Six men were arrested and charged in connection with a fentanyl packaging mill operating inside a Bronx apartment building located in the Mt. Eden section of the borough, prosecutors said Tuesday, Jan. 13. According to officials at the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor (SNP), over six kilograms of fentanyl (13 pounds), carrying an estimated street value of more than $1 million, were recovered from the apartment, including tens of thousands of dosage-sized glassine envelopes ready for distribution. They said law enforcement also recovered bulk quantities of cocaine from the apartment.

UPDATE Two Former NYPD Cops Sentenced after Pleading Guilty to Sex Abuse of Intoxicated Woman

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced Monday, Jan. 12, that two former NYPD officers were sentenced in the sexual abuse of an intoxicated woman on Friday, Jan. 9, at Bronx Criminal Court, with one of the defendants required to register as a sex offender and both sentenced to probation and sex offender treatment programs as part of the plea agreement. The sentences imposes equated to those negotiated between the prosecution and the defense under the terms of a plea deal.

NYC North Central Bronx & Jacobi Medical Center Welcome First Babies of the New Year

By SÍLE MOLONEY
At 12:58 a.m. on New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, Norwood’s North Central Bronx Hospital welcomed its first baby of the year delivered at the hospital, Ridhaan Mollik. Ridhaan weighed in at 6 pounds 9.5 ounces, and is 20.1 inches long, according to hospital officials, who said the baby boy is the first child of Sornaly Kor Aky.

Morris Heights: Three Sought for Armed Robbery

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The NYPD is asking for the public’s help identifying the three people seen in the attached photos who they say are wanted in connection with a gunpoint robbery that occurred in December 2025 in the Morris Heights section of The Bronx.

Council Passes Street Vending Bill Package, Adams Vetoes Bills

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Though the street vendor movement made history on Thursday, Dec. 18, with a supermajority (39/51) of the City Council voting “aye” to pass bills 431-B, 408, and 1251 after years of advocacy and with what was described as a broad coalition of support, former Mayor Eric Adams vetoed the bills, along with around 16 others, on the last day of his term on Dec. 31.