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☆ Could This Van Help People Quit Fentanyl?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Sharon Otterman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Before he started taking methadone, Vinny Parisi had overdosed 16 times from using street drugs, including fentanyl. Now, Mr. Parisi goes every weekday morning to an R.V.-size white van parked at a Days Inn in the South Bronx. “This definitely works, I’m living proof,” Mr. Parisi said on a recent Tuesday outside the van, where he was waiting with about a dozen other men from his residential drug treatment program. Mr. Parisi is one of an estimated 450,000 Americans who take methadone, a powerful weapon in the fight against the fentanyl overdose crisis hiding in plain sight. But it can also be hard to come by, because of government rules that have kept its distribution tightly controlled.

Persons: Vinny Parisi, Parisi, Mr, “, ” Locations: Harlem, South Bronx, Staten Island

☆ 26-year-old won the NYC housing lottery, pays $881/month for a 1-bedroom apartment: How the process works
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Celia Fernandez | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Nahjae Olin won the NYC housing lottery in 2023 and signed a lease on a one-bedroom apartment in the Bronx. She and five of her siblings grew up in a one-bedroom apartment just one block away from the place she now calls home. Molly Stromoski for NYC Department of Housing Preservation & DevelopmentThe New York City housing lottery program helps residents find affordable housing, including rent-stabilized apartments. NYC Housing ConnectThe average ratio for HPD's housing lottery is 50 applications for each available unit. Before winning her housing lottery apartment, Nkenge lived in a small one-bedroom in Harlem.

Persons: Nahjae Olin, Olin, Molly Stromoski, Emily Osgood, Osgood, you've, It's, she'd, . Olin, I'm, Development Olin, you'll, Nkenge, Mickey Todiwala, That's, I've Organizations: CNBC, NYC Department of Housing Preservation, New, of Housing Preservation, Development, Yorkers, AMI, Housing, . Locations: Bronx, Bronx , New York City, New York City, New York, housingconnect.nyc.gov, Brooklyn, Williamsbridge, U.S, Harlem, Manhattan, Nkenge's

☆ Breaking at the 2024 Paris Olympics: Its street dance origins, how it works and how to watch
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-16 | by ( Lauren Merola | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

In breaking, athletes are referred to as b-boys and b-girls, with the “B” standing for breaking. Elements of breaking and popular movesTo a new viewer, breaking can seem like an off-the-cuff union of agility and adaptation. Following the round-robin competition, the four quarterfinal rounds and two semifinal rounds will set the stage for the bronze-medal and gold-medal battles. How to watchEvent Date Time (ET) TV Streaming Women's round-robin Aug. 9 10 a.m.-12:10 p.m. E! Peacock Men's round-robin Aug. 10 10 a.m.-12:10 p.m. E!

Persons: they’re, Let’s, you’ve, That’s, Who’s, Victor Montalvo, Victor, ”, Houston’s Jeffrey Louis, “, Jeffro, Montalvo, Louis, Sunny Choi, ” —, Logan Edra, Choi, Estée Lauder, Peacock, Philip Kim of, Zheng Huansong Organizations: Paris, USA Four, Paris ., NBC, Team USA, Penn, Pan American Games, Bull, Concorde, Getty Locations: Bronx, N.Y, Paris, USA Four United States, Paris . Florida, Queens, U.S, Philip Kim of Canada, Xinhua

☆ Many Americans think they’re insulated from climate change. Their finances indicate otherwise
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-16 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Joseph Lamberti/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesMany Americans think they're insulated from the effects of global warming. But climate change is already having negative and broad impacts on household finances, according to experts. "There are a bazillion pathways" to adverse financial impact, he added. However, when it comes to financial impact, "I think you could argue the correct answer for [people] is, 'It's already hurting me,'" Krosnick said. How global warming and inflation intersectClimate change also exacerbates inflation, research shows — a dynamic dubbed "climate-flation."

Persons: Joseph Lamberti, Gernot Wagner, Jon Krosnick, Krosnick, Angela Weiss, Wagner, Mario Tama Organizations: Bloomberg, Getty Images, ICF, Columbia Business School, Finance, Stanford University, Resources, Research, Afp, Getty, Columbia Business, University of Illinois, University of Oregon, New York City, Workers, European Central Bank, Potsdam Institute, Climate Locations: Philadelphia, U.S, American, Miami, Bronx, New York, Urbana, Champaign, Canada, Baker , California, California, Phoenix

☆ How Jennifer Lopez Lost a Generation - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Yarimar Bonilla | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Jennifer Lopez has been hailed as a trailblazer: a Latina from the Bronx who transcended her humble origins to become a global superstar. J. Lo’s romantic life has been as closely followed as her artistic life. She and Ben Affleck got engaged in 2002 and later broke up, but they reunited in 2021. The movie has been widely panned as nonsensical, corny, belabored and just plain weird, while the documentary is so unflattering it’s hard to believe she greenlighted it. The tour Ms. Lopez announced shortly after the album’s release has since been canceled.

Persons: Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck, Lopez Organizations: Google Locations: Bronx

☆ Mike Bloomberg donates $1 billion to cover Johns Hopkins medical school tuition for students
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewMost medical students at Johns Hopkins University won't have to worry about student loans. On Monday, Johns Hopkins announced that Bloomberg Philanthropies, founded by the billionaire Michael Bloomberg, would donate $1 billion to make tuition free for medical students with family incomes under $300,000 a year, beginning this fall. Johns Hopkins said the gift would also allow it to cover living expenses for medical students with family incomes under $175,000 a year. It estimated that nearly two-thirds of current and incoming medical students would qualify for free tuition or free tuition and covered living expenses. Monday's announcement will build on donations Johns Hopkins has received over the past few years to reduce student-debt loads for its graduates.

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☆ As heat levels climb, so do power bills. Here’s how you can keep costs down
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Erika Tulfo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

But on the tail of a record-breaking heatwave that swept the Midwest and Northeast, she’s finding it difficult to keep costs down. Americans’ power bills are expected to soar this summer, as heat waves have already begun baking parts of the country. But keeping your AC off when you’re not home may actually result in higher bills later on. In an aerial view, high voltage power lines run along the electrical power grid on May 16, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida. A higher rating indicates lower energy consumption levels and, in turn, lower costs of cooling.

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☆ Where Can Men Go to Become Better Men?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Joseph Bernstein | Kadar R. Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On a cloudy afternoon in May, a dozen strangers descended a tree-lined hill in the Catskills, one by one. They had just relinquished their phones, and the only sound they could hear was the distant beat of a drum. But they hoped that somehow they would emerge better, more fulfilled men. At the bottom of the hill, they entered a huge frame tent, bare except for carpets, chairs and space heaters. A circle of about 25 more men, all of whom had already been through the same process, or a very similar one, welcomed them.

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☆ Composting could be set for U.S. boom, and it needs one, decades behind recycling
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-29 | by ( Cheryl Winokur Munk | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Some states, municipalities and private-sector companies are pushing to make composting as commonplace as recycling. Yet data from the Environmental Protection Agency shows little residential food waste is composted in the U.S. — 3.7% as of an April 2023 report. These include at-home options, curbside bins, drop-off locations and private valet services that pick up food waste from multi-family homes. Thousands of composting facilities neededFranciosi said his organization has been fielding more calls from municipalities that are interested in composting, but funding challenges remain. Another challenge is the dearth of composting facilities.

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☆ NYC public libraries have their funding restored, will reopen on Sundays
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Eva Rothenberg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —New York City officials have agreed to restore more than $111 million in funding to libraries and cultural institutions, the City Council announced Thursday. “We are proud to announce a full restoration of funds to both our libraries and cultural institutions in the upcoming budget,” said New York City Mayor Eric Adams in a statement Thursday. More than 174,000 people sent letters to City Hall in support of the “No Cuts to Libraries!” campaign since the cuts were announced in November. “This funding will allow us to resume seven-day service, a priority for many New Yorkers,” the libraries said in a statement shared with CNN. “We are running a library system today on a pre-pandemic funding level that has not kept pace with inflation,” Linda Johnson, president and CEO of Brooklyn Public Library said at the time.

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☆ With a MAGA win and a Squad loss, the political middle moves
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

So it would be an oversimplification to say that Republicans moved more MAGA and Democrats moved more moderate based on these two unrelated races. Former President Donald Trump personifies MAGA, and a large part of the Make America Great Again ethos he pushes is loyalty to him. That primary voters did not hold the spending against Latimer, as progressives argued they should, also reminds me that voters (especially Democrats) in presidential cycles tend to be cautious. Utah went its own wayWhile Boebert’s victory provides a foil for Bowman’s loss, it was far from a perfect night for more MAGA Republicans. It’s a shame that primary voters are becoming the de facto general election voters in states and districts that lean heavily to one side or the other, according to former Indiana Gov.

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☆ Election Updates: J.D. Vance says he’ll be disappointed if Trump doesn’t pick him as his running mate.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Michael C. Bender | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

And AIPAC’s attacks have galvanized a concerted countercampaign by the left to try to discredit the group, which is bipartisan, among Democratic voters. Mr. Latimer ran up large margins in more moderate suburban communities, including ones with sizable Jewish populations. Mr. Bowman’s opponents churned out an unusually large amount of opposition research against him, including old blog posts dabbling in Sept. 11 conspiracy theories. Mr. Latimer returned to the episode repeatedly to argue that Mr. “He’s making the party look really bad,” said Sandra Altman, citing Mr. Bowman’s fire alarm episode and his left-leaning views, as she voted for Mr. Latimer in Scarsdale.

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☆ Bowman Falls to Latimer in a Loss for Progressive Democrats
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Nicholas Fandos | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York, one of Congress’s most outspoken progressives, suffered a stinging primary defeat on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, unable to overcome a record-shattering campaign from pro-Israel groups and a slate of self-inflicted blunders. Bowman was defeated by George Latimer, the Westchester County executive, in a race that became the year’s ugliest intraparty brawl and the most expensive House primary in history. Bowman stepped forward as one of the leading critics of how Israelis were carrying out their war with Hamas. Bowman, the district’s first Black congressman and a committed democratic socialist, never wavered from his calls for a cease-fire in Gaza or left-wing economic priorities. Down in the polls, he repeatedly accused his white opponent of racism and used expletives in denouncing the pro-Israel groups as a “Zionist regime” trying to buy the election.

Persons: Jamaal Bowman, Bowman, George Latimer Organizations: Associated Press, Israel, Westchester County, Democratic Party Locations: New York, Westchester, Westchester County, Bronx, Gaza

☆ Election Updates: The Jamaal Bowman-George Latimer primary could signal many political benchmarks.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Claire Fahy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

New York is a closed primary state, meaning Democrats and Republicans can vote only in their own parties’ primaries. Bowman and Mr. Latimer may serve as harbingers of many political benchmarks. Mr. Latimer is largely supportive of Israel, calling for a return of all hostages before any potential cease-fire. Mr. Latimer has received $14.5 million in support from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. It has also featured negative characterizations, with Mr. Latimer portraying Mr.

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☆ It’s Primary Day in New York. Here’s What to Know.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Claire Fahy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Tuesday is Primary Day in New York. Other congressional contests have also drawn interest, including one in eastern Long Island, where a media and political luminary made a late entry into the Democratic primary against an established candidate. The Democratic-led State Legislature is also up for election in November, and a number of Assembly primary races are expected to be close. Finding out where to votePolls will open at 6 a.m. and close at 9 p.m. Voters can find their local polling places on the Board of Elections website.

Persons: Jamaal Bowman, George Latimer, luminary Organizations: Democratic Locations: New York, Westchester County, Long

☆ What to Know About Jamaal Bowman’s Bitter Democratic Primary Race
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Claire Fahy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York won a Democratic primary in 2020 as an untested middle-school principal, his upset was heralded as evidence of the left’s ascent. Bowman is now the one fighting for his political life, battling to turn back a primary challenge from George Latimer, the Westchester County executive heavily backed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The results of Tuesday’s contest in the 16th Congressional District, which covers parts of Westchester County and the Bronx, may test the durability of the Democratic Party’s progressive faction: If Mr. Bowman was to lose, he would be the first member of the House’s left-wing “squad” to be unseated. Bowman trailing in the polls, some of the left’s biggest luminaries have come to his defense, including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who joined Mr.

Persons: Jamaal Bowman, Bowman, George Latimer, ”, Alexandria Ocasio, Cortez, Bernie Sanders of Organizations: New York, Democratic, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Congressional, Democratic Party’s Locations: Westchester County, Bronx, Bernie Sanders of Vermont

☆ Opinion | Jamaal Bowman’s Political Malpractice
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Now Israel’s champions, many of whom have never been comfortable with Bowman, are striking back, capitalizing on a political environment transformed by Oct. 7. Bowman’s challenger is the Westchester County executive, George Latimer, who refuses to criticize Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, putting Latimer not just to Bowman’s right but also to the right of President Biden and Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader. I think Sanders was exaggerating, but the contest is probably the most important congressional primary this year. It’s setting a precedent for big money interference in local politics and tearing at the longtime progressive alliance between Black people and Jews. There is something deeply admirable about his refusal to subordinate his values to political expediency.

Persons: Jamaal Bowman, Bowman, Eliot Engel, George Latimer, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Latimer, Biden, Chuck Schumer, Emerson, —, Bernie Sanders, Sanders, Hamas’s, he’s Organizations: Democrat, Westchester County, American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s, Israel Locations: New York’s, Israel, Westchester, Vermont, Black, Bronx, America, Gaza

☆ Election Updates: Trump says he proposed a ‘migrant league of fighters’ to the head of U.F.C.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( Chris Cameron | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

‘I’m sure he’ll be prepared’“I say he’ll come out all jacked up, right?” Mr. Trump said, referring to Mr. Biden. Moments later, Mr. Trump, who has previously demanded Mr. Biden take a drug test before their debate, seemed to accuse Mr. Biden of using illegal drugs. He said Mr. Biden had done little to curb inflation and derided his energy and environmental policies, which Mr. Trump said are raising the cost of goods. Mr. Trump also said Mr. Biden had done little at the border. Mr. Biden campaigns frequently in the city, and its metropolitan area was critical to helping him win Pennsylvania by about 80,000 votes in 2020.

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☆ Bowman, in Fight for His Political Life, Embraces the Left’s Star Power
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Nicholas Fandos | Claire Fahy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

He cracked jokes on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” spit verses the next day with the rapper Cash Cobain and spent Friday on friendly territory with a well-known ally, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. The capper was set for Saturday, when Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York was scheduled to rally in the Bronx with two of the left’s biggest names: Mr. Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Overpowered on the airwaves and behind in the polls, Mr. Bowman is leaning heavily on national star power in a last-minute bid to alter the trajectory of one of the nation’s most hotly contested Democratic primaries. Bowman, 48, boomed at the event with Mr. Sanders on Friday in Hastings-on-Hudson, just north of his hometown, Yonkers.

Persons: Stephen Colbert, Cash Cobain, Bernie Sanders, capper, Jamaal Bowman, Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio, Cortez, Bowman, ” Mr, ” Organizations: Vermont, Democratic Locations: New York, Bronx, Hastings, Hudson, Yonkers

☆ Fatal Shooting Robs a Neighborhood of a Longtime Friendly Face
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Shayla Colon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

He worked his shift at Pizza Palace in Manhattan’s Inwood neighborhood late Sunday. But the man, Alejandro Ramirez, never got to the stop. He made it only a few blocks before he was fatally shot in the chest. Mr. Ramirez, 45, was one of two people killed in a shooting at West 207th Street and 10th Avenue around 11:40 p.m. on Father’s Day; another Bronx man, Michael James, 44, was fatally shot, in the face and torso. The number of shootings across New York City has dropped compared with last year, but that was little consolation for a neighborhood shaken by the Father’s Day shooting, and for a city girding for summer’s traditional increase in gun violence.

Persons: Alejandro Ramirez, Ramirez, Michael James Organizations: West 207th Street Locations: Manhattan’s Inwood, Bronx, New York City

☆ In New York City’s Subway System, There’s Beauty in the Mundane
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( Erica Ackerberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Along the walls of the B/D train station on 167th Street, Rico Gatson created “Beacons,” eight portraits of Black and Latino leaders with connections to the Bronx. He modeled each mosaic on black-and-white photographs, adding bright rays “coming out of a Pan-African sensibility of black, red and green,” Gatson has said, “but expanding with yellow and orange and sometimes evolving into silver and gold.”Ann Hamilton’s “CHORUS” (2018) is a white marble mosaic of words taken from the preamble of the Declaration of Independence and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, “a song stitched step by step” along a wall of the No. 1 train platform at the World Trade Center Cortlandt station.

Persons: Rico Gatson, Black, Gatson, ” Ann Hamilton’s, “ Organizations: United, World Trade Center Locations: “, Independence, World Trade Center Cortlandt

☆ Willie Mays: My father taught me everything I needed to know about the most complete ballplayer ever
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Harry Enten | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —When people ask me how good of a player Willie Mays was, I give them a perhaps odd answer. You see, my Father watched Mays play when he came up as a rookie for the New York Giants in 1951. That short splice of film is our version of getting to see Mays play. Mays is a big reason why my Father was one of the few people who wore a New York Giants baseball cap throughout his later years. It’s a connection I try to carry on to this day whether it’s by wearing a New York Giants baseball hat on television or by answering “the New York Giants” when asked what baseball team I root for.

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Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement that he would activate the city’s heat emergency plan starting on Tuesday. “The first heat wave of the season is here, and New York City has a plan to beat the heat — but we want all New Yorkers to have a plan as well,” Mr. Adams said. The city’s Heat Vulnerability Index — an effort spearheaded by the health department in conjunction with Columbia University — analyzes the neighborhoods that face the most danger during a heat wave. If everybody’s doing it, you’re multiplying it by millions.”Are heat waves in New York City becoming more common? The only heat wave to hit New York City last year happened in September, said David Stark, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service of New York.

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☆ Opinion | Jamaal Bowman Deserves to Lose
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Pamela Paul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

We’ve heard plenty about the outsize funding for Latimer, particularly from AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobbying group. Onstage, Bowman proudly cursed in a manner unbecoming to a public official. But let’s put aside money and manners. Let’s even put aside the war in Gaza, an issue on which the candidates strongly differ. (Latimer offers a centrist view broadly supportive of President Biden’s policy, while Bowman has taken a forceful pro-Palestinian stance.)

Persons: George Latimer, Jamaal Bowman, We’ve, Latimer, Bowman, ” We’ve, There’s, let’s, Biden’s Organizations: Congressional, Westchester County, Israel Locations: Tuesday’s, New York, Westchester, South Bronx, Gaza

☆ I was born blind and with cerebral palsy. My dad raised me alone and fought for me to have everything I needed.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Sarah Cerio | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

My dad raised me in the Bronx as a single parent in the 90's. I was born partially blind and with cerebral palsy. Courtesy of the authorAgainst professional advice and threats of losing parental custody during an ongoing court battle against my mother, Dad took me out of the children's hospital. He died and I was adoptedUnfortunately, my father lost custody of me and two years later he died. Also, seeing first-hand how much my dad fought for me made an imprint on her.

Persons: he'd, John, Dad, we'd, She'd, Father's, I've Organizations: Service, Angels Catholic Locations: Bronx, Manhattan, Valhalla

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