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Homecoming Concert Celebrates Life, Arts & Culture in “The Boogie-Down”

By JASON GONZALEZ
New York City’s “Homecoming Week” kicked off in the birthplace of Hip Hop, on Monday Aug. 16, when the first of five outdoor concerts was held in Orchard Beach in The Bronx. The music-filled week was launched as a celebration of the City’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, despite health officials warning that more people still need to be vaccinated in order for the City, and country, to advance towards the much coveted state of herd immunity.   Citywide, as of Sept. 24, just 62 percent of New Yorkers are fully vaccinated, and in the Bronx, that number is 55


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UPDATE Starbucks To Open at Former “Twin Donut Plus” Site in Norwood

By DAVID GREENE
Coffee lovers, get ready! Workers are putting the finishing touches to the remodeling of the once popular, “Twin Donut Plus,” in preparation for the grand opening of a new Starbucks branch in Norwood.   The former coffee and donut outlet, located at 3396 Jerome Avenue and East 208th Street, which was part of the Twin Donut franchise founded in Boston in 1959, closed in July 2018, as previously reported by Norwood News. The site has remained vacant ever since.   According to a filed “RPTT and RETT” document with the Office of the City Register, the property appears to have


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The Brew’s Back! Fordham Newsstand Coffee Ban Lifted Following Norwood News Report

by David Cruz  Following news reports, including those by the Norwood News, the owner of a newsstand inside One Fordham Plaza is once again cleared to sell coffee following a campaign by online activists. For the past month, the newsstand was allegedly told by management to stop its coffee sales following the opening of a Starbucks just outside the building’s complex. The news, first broken by the Norwood News, inspired an online petition requesting that One Fordham Plaza reinstate the newsstand owner’s right to sell coffee. While the ban was in place, and acrimony raged, a sign hung up by the tiny


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Roasted! Fordham Newsstand Barred From Selling Coffee After Starbucks Opens

by David Cruz  Business at this coffee shop’s been grounded. Profits have tanked for the operator of a newsstand in the lobby of One Fordham Plaza, the enormous 12-story complex that’s home to offices occupied by city, state and medical agencies. That’s because the owner of the stand was ordered to stop selling coffee following a deal struck between the management company and the newly-opened Starbucks coffeehouse in the building’s ground level. The Starbucks opened last month, considered somewhat of an encore for the Seattle-based coffee company. Several years ago a Starbucks had opened on West Fordham Road, then closed.


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