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BRONX - The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) joined with NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi and the global design and consultancy firm Arcadis to announce the ongoing stormwater drainage upgrades at the Jacobi Hospital campus. DEP is investing nearly $5 million to build stormwater drainage and storage systems beneath three of the parking lots on the campus through its Resilient NYC Partners program. When completed, the stormwater drainage and storage systems will be able to capture more than 5 million gallons a year. The project will not only help to protect the hospital’s facilities, staff and visitors, but also create additional capacity in the larger Pelham Parkway sewer system, helping to reduce flooding throughout the neighborhood. DEP and Arcadis, who is managing the construction at each site, recently completed similar upgrades at Flushing Hospital in Queens and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn with a $1.78 million investment. ...

Crook Stole Donation Box from Mosque

Cops are searching for this man, they say, took a donation box from a mosque. -Photo by NYPD


By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

March 29, 2023


BRONX - Cops are looking for the cold-hearted crook who stole the donation box from a Bronx mosque. The theft was captured on surveillance video. 


At around 10:20 pm on March 26, a man entered the Bronx Muslim Center around the corner from Monroe College in the Fordham Heights section of the Bronx. Surveillance video shows the man stroll into the mosque, walk over to the donation box, that was sitting on a chair, and remove it. 


The suspect was last seen wearing a black leather jacket, scarf and knitted cap. 





Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips. 


All calls are strictly confidential.

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