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Jacobi Gets Stormwater Upgrade

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. ...
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New Video - NYC School Buses Stolen

Drivers Caught On Video Behind the Wheel 

Police released surveillance video of thieves behind the wheels of school buses stolen from a Bronx depot. -Photo by NYPD


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

October 25, 2023 


BRONX - SMILE! Young suspects who took a trio of school buses for a joy ride from a Bronx bus depot were caught on camera driving the stolen buses. Police released the new video in an attempt to catch the thieves. 


Cops said thieves broke into the buses at the depot on Blondell Avenue off of Westchester Square at around midnight on Tuesday. They drove off with three short buses that the company said were spares and not in service. 


Once the crooks got behind the wheel and drove the buses through the front gate and off the lot, cameras in each of the buses activated capturing the drivers in action. 



According to published reports, one of the buses was recovered in front of a school in Crotona Park. 


Another of the stolen buses was seen on the vehicle’s GPS as tracing to Springfield Gardens, Queens. 



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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