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  1. July 11, 2026 Foreclosure filings hit a seven-year high last quarter, up 91% from a year ago, with Williamsbridge and Throggs Neck the hardest-hit neighborhoods.
  2. July 11, 2026 Belmont A housing lottery opened for 18 units at 2351 Lorillard Place, with three-bedroom rents starting at $1,368 a month.
  3. July 11, 2026 A Bronx Commander's Rape Indictment — *The commanding officer accused of assaulting his own subordinate allegedly warned her that accusers don't fare well against him, then kept his command for another year.* Top story
  4. July 9, 2026 Fieldston Power expanded its solar network to 72 rent-stabilized buildings across New York City, connecting tenants who cannot install rooftop panels to off-site solar to help building owners meet Local Law 97 carbon deadlines.
  5. July 8, 2026 Community Board 1 voted down a Mott Haven waterfront rezoning for 537 affordable apartments, with residents arguing that AMI benchmarks including wealthy Westchester suburbs make what the city calls "affordable" unaffordable for actual Mott Haven families.
  6. July 8, 2026 Borough President Vanessa Gibson ribboned 166 new apartments in Bedford Park Tuesday; developer AG Holdings expects most tenants will use CityFHEPS vouchers.
  7. July 6, 2026 Longwood NYC Parks completed a $2.8 million reconstruction of Dawson Playground, the first major capital investment in the neighborhood in more than two decades, funded through the Mayor's Community Parks Initiative.
  8. July 6, 2026 Yankee Stadium The Yankees lost 6-1 to the Twins on July 4, their ninth loss in ten games and a 3-12 slide since peaking at 46-28 on June 19; Minnesota won its first series at Yankee Stadium since 2014.
  9. July 4, 2026 Yankee Stadium Trent Grisham went 3-for-4 in his return from the injured list Thursday, snapping the Yankees' seven-game losing streak against Minnesota.
  10. July 4, 2026 Moishe Parkash, the city's perennial "worst landlord," was forced to sell three Bronx buildings in a deal with his lender.
  11. July 4, 2026 The Queens Blackout Top story
  12. July 3, 2026 District 16 Council Member Althea Stevens cast the lone "no" vote on Mamdani's $126 billion budget, writing that her district, among the city's poorest, received smaller investments than wealthier districts: "Equity means directing resources where the needs are greatest".
  13. July 3, 2026 Montefiore Is Firing 12 Nurses. It Won't Say What Replaces Them — *Four months after the 41-day strike, the replacements arrived: software.* Top story
  14. July 2, 2026 South Bronx The FY27 budget includes $7 million to upgrade the neonatal intensive care unit at Lincoln Hospital, which Council Member Justin Sanchez said "no longer meets modern standards for infection control, family-centered care, or neonatal technology in one of New York City's busiest maternity hospitals."
  15. July 2, 2026 Hunts Point $25 million over two years will modernize the Fulton Fish Market Co-op and open it to the public for the first time, per the FY27 budget deal.
  16. July 2, 2026 Ralph Lauren, born Ralph Lifshitz in 1939 to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrant parents in the Bronx, is profiled as the designer who invented America's style for the nation's 250th anniversary: the kid who pressed his face to department store windows to study how Fred Astaire knotted a tie.
  17. June 30, 2026 Family members of Teresa Gonzalez, 88, filed complaints against Jacobi Medical Center and Montefiore after their paralyzed mother was allegedly left "soiled in feces and urine" during a spring hospitalization, part of a documented pattern of emergency care shortfalls in the borough.
  18. June 29, 2026 Van Cortlandt Park Van Cortlandt Park Stadium, closed since 2021, cannot be repaired, it sits on unstable landfill, has asbestos, lead, and PCBs throughout, and has a foundation so shallow it would need to be rebuilt anyway. NYC Parks has no demolition funding, no contractor estimate, and the handball courts next to it could eventually close too.
  19. June 29, 2026 Rep. Ritchie Torres sent a letter to the Department of Justice urging it to reconsider a June 18 memo reinterpreting the 1999 Olmstead decision, which had protected disabled people's right to community-based care over institutionalization. The Bronx has the city's highest concentration of people with disabilities; New York state officials say nothing has changed locally, but advocates are alarmed.
  20. June 29, 2026 Yankee Stadium area The Red Sox completed a four-game sweep of the Yankees in Boston on Sunday, 5-4 in extras, with Aroldis Chapman blowing a save against his former team in the ninth. The Yankees are now 1-15 in June games at Fenway since 2019; every other month they're 23-15 there.
  21. June 23, 2026 The NY-13 primary between Espaillat and Avila Chevalier was, per Epicenter's count, drowned in ICE and immigration ads, six of seven a columnist was served, in a city that has not seen the mass federal deployments of Los Angeles or Minneapolis.

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