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  January 26, 2024 Crain's New York Business

  H+H board approves $16M contract for affordable housing project at Jacobi despite community backlash

  The New York City Health + Hospitals board of directors on Thursday voted to approve a
  99-year sublease and $16 million contract for a supportive housing project at Jacobi
  Hospital in the Bronx despite intense community backlash.

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  January 22, 2024 QNS

  19 Queens organizations receive over $4 million in grants to advance health equity

  More than $4 million in grant money was distributed across 19 Queens organizations by the nonprofit Mother Cabrini Health Foundation to be used for the purpose of advancing health equity for underserved members of the community.

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  January 05, 2024 Irish Star

  Brand new Irish storytelling night kicks off in New York next week

  The storytelling night will kick off on January 11. Every month will also feature a storyteller from The Fortune Society.

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  December 30, 2023 New York Post

  7 years in Rikers: Man serves ‘longest sentence’ in the notorious jail

  One of the longest serving inmates on Rikers Island is finally a free man — acquitted of murder charges and living with his mother in Boston — but still faces time in the slammer.

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  December 14, 2023 City & State New York

  Exclusive: New Rikers commission unveils list of members

  The former New York City probation commissioner and a former deputy mayor will join many original members to get the closure plan back on track.

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  December 14, 2023 City Limits

  Plan to House Formerly-Incarcerated Inches Forward in the East Bronx

  The “Just Home” proposal to house seriously ill people leaving jail cleared one of its final procedural hurdles at a heated public hearing, where locals repeatedly testified that they feared for their safety.

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