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Join our Bronx Instances electronic mail publication to get information, updates, and native insights delivered straight to your inbox! Bally’s philanthropic basis provided to purchase the property of Preston Excessive Faculty in Throggs Neck for $8.5 million to stop the college from completely closing in June, however the Sisters of the Divine Compassion, who personal the positioning, rejected the proposal, the Bronx Instances has realized. Regardless of assist from native elected officers, the rejection means the all-girls Catholic college stays on observe to shut on the finish of the college yr. The supply got here from Bally’s Basis North America,…

The Trump administration is threatening to tug federal funding from New York Metropolis’s transit system if it doesn’t present a plan to handle crime. Whereas New York transit officers level to publicly out there statistics exhibiting main crime on the subway system is trending down this yr, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy famous “quite a few high-profile security associated incidents” in a letter despatched Tuesday to the top of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority. “If you can’t keep your subway safe, if people can’t go to the subway and not be afraid of being stabbed or thrown in front…