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🇰🇷 🇺🇸 MSP ➡️ NYC Reporter for Bronx Times. Past lives as high school teacher and chef. Bylines for The Guardian US, THE CITY, Mott Haven Herald.
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A Bronx guide to surviving the heat: Cooling centers, pools and more across the borough

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By Emily Swanson Verified
| Bronx Times Verified
Posted on We’re in a summer heat wave — but not the fun kind. The entire city is under an extreme heat warning until 9 p.m. on Saturday, July 4, with heat index values —the “feels like” temperature— as high as 105 to 115 degrees. This kind of extreme heat and humidity for a prolonged period is dangerous. Every year, an average of 500 New Yorkers die prematurely from heat-related illnesses, and Black and Latino residents are disproportionately affected.
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Twelve Montefiore nurses laid off to be replaced by AI, nurses’ union says

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By Emily Swanson Verified
| Bronx Times Verified
Bronx elected officials joined a virtual press conference on July 1 that included NYSNA nurses, Council Member Shirley Aldebol, who chairs the labor committee, along with Assembly Members Jeffrey Dinowitz, Karines Reyes and Amanda Septimo and State Senator Nathalia Fernandez. Assembly Member George Alvarez issued a statement in support of NYSNA, and several other Bronx officials sent staffers to the meeting.
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Bronx elected officials celebrate big city budget wins

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By Emily Swanson Verified
| Bronx Times Verified
As Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the City Council came to a last-minute agreement on a $126 billion city budget for Fiscal Year 2027, Bronx representatives applauded several wins for the borough - but not all are celebrating. The council adopted the budget June 30 by a vote of 45 to 6, with Althea Stevens of the Bronx as the only Democrat to join Republicans Joann Ariola, David Carr, Frank Morano, Vickie Paladino and Inna Vernikov in opposition.
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