A Staten Island couple retrieved their stolen hobby cars on Third Avenue and 138th Street by pretending to buy them for $1200 from a Craigslist seller.
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Couple Set Up Craigslist Sting on a Mott Haven Street
Posted on 05 September 2014.
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Parks department officials announce water safety measures following drownings in the Bronx
Posted on 24 August 2014.
New York Parks Department officials unveiled new safety measures for more than fifty city-wide boat launches on Friday.
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Bronx cab drivers divided about surveillance cameras
Posted on 19 August 2014.
Some cab drivers in the Bronx are not convinced that installing a surveillance camera in their cabs will protect them from assault or violence crimes after two livery cabbies were slain in recent weeks.
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Hurricane Sandy Leaves Behind Fallen Trees, Power Outages Along South Coast of Bronx
Posted on 30 October 2012.
Falling trees and power outages posed the biggest threats to residents who weren’t living in high-risk flood zones as Hurricane Sandy ripped through the Bronx.
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Sandy Batters Eastern Coast of the Bronx
Posted on 30 October 2012.
Hurricane Sandy hit the Southeast shores of the Bronx Monday evening causing extensive damage across residential areas.
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West African Patients Lost in Translation
Posted on 27 October 2012.
Before the Diaspora Clinic opened, health workers at the Martin Luther King Hospital found that many patients who speak minority languages ended up in emergency rooms.
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Why are So Many Highbridge Students Unprepared for College?
Posted on 26 October 2012.
Only 13 percent of the neighborhood’s high school students are ready to go to college when they graduate.
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State Pulls Funding from Highbridge’s only Mental Health Clinic for Children
Posted on 25 October 2012.
Astor at Highbridge, a mental health clinic for children and adolescents in the Highbridge section of the Bronx, will lose three-quarters of its funding from New York State by next year.
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