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After recent events at the youth facility at the Rikers Island jail, it is clear that New York City needs to do a much better job of training and supervising corrections officers there. Read more..

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 Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión, who is in the running for a top White House job as urban czar, may have a problem.

Early last year, he got a big political donation from a South Bronx warehouse owner weeks before approving a deal to store city voting machines there, a Daily News investigation found.

The Bronx Democratic Party, which Carrión helps run, also got a donation from the owners of a Gerard Ave. warehouse when the city Board of Elections first started looking at using it.

After The News inquired about the warehouse deal, the Elections Board decided to drop it - although Carrión’s support for the project remains.

In the fall of 2007, the Elections Board began looking for new warehouse space to store computerized voting machines to replace old mechanical ones.

The board decided to move the agency’s Bronx office and warehouse to the South Bronx. The Department of Citywide Administrative Services came up with a list of possible sites.

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Rosemary “Rosey” Comiskey O’Reilly said her brother was in a doctor’s office in New Jersey when a nurse asked him if the Rosey who last year organized a Bronx party in Calabash, N.C., was his sister. When he answered yes, the nurse told him she heard it was one of the best parties ever.

O’Reilly of Carolina Shores, N.C., said that because more than 300 people attended the event, she and Frank Ward of Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., decided a second The Bronx, N.Y., Day was necessary.

“We had to turn people away last year,” Ward said.

He remembers the wide variety of people who attended. Ages ranged from 50 to 80 years, and people came from all backgrounds: Irish, Polish, Italian, Jewish, Catholic and more.

Ward and O’Reilly said they have streamlined the party, so this year they will have signs indicating areas of the Bronx, such as Sacred Heart parish, Highbridge; Tolentine parish, Fordham Road; Parkchester; and others.

“This is so people have a place to congregate,” O’Reilly said. “Once they know the part of the Bronx someone is from, they know what questions to ask.”

She teases her husband, Tom O’Reilly, by saying he missed out because he grew up in Queens, N.Y. Read more..

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Many teachers and parents at the 14 New York City schools marked for closing so far this year are puzzled that their schools were chosen. Read more..

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BurdenNEW YORK CITY-A 30-block swath of the South Bronx would be rezoned to include 3,400 housing units and as much as 841,000 square feet of new commercial space under a plan the Bloomberg administration released on Monday. The unveiling marks the beginning of the public review process for the rezoning along the southern end of the Grand Concourse, part of the “South Bronx Initiative” first announced by Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2006.

At present, the neighborhood is predominantly industrial, with about 20% of the building space vacant, according to the Department of City Planning. The industrial sector would be protected under the new zoning, but the city also hopes to encourage the development of market-rate and affordable housing to accommodate the South Bronx’s increasing residential population. Current zoning in the so-called Lower Concourse district does not allow residential development. Read more..

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