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The Metro-North Railroad says service to its new station near Yankee Stadium will begin May 23.

That’s about five weeks after the first official game at the new Bronx stadium.

Metro-North President Howard Permut says the project was completed in two years, faster than any other major station undertaking in the railroad’s history.

The railroad says regular service to the station will be supplemented on game days by a nearly continuous shuttle from Grand Central Terminal.

The new station is on the railroad’s Hudson Line. Some stadium trains also will loop around to stations on the Harlem and New Haven lines.

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 State budget cuts have forced a South Bronx intervention program for drug addicts and people at risk for HIV to close. And advocates there fear it’s the start of a disturbing trend.

“Once you get rid of prevention services, then all the treatment services are just going to become a revolving door,” said Diane Price, with the Center for AIDS, Outreach and Prevention.

The center, operated by the nonprofit National Development and Research Institute, closed its storefront at 912 E. 163rd St. last week.

The nonprofit had received $2.28 million from the state Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse, which had funded the program since 1988. Read more..

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 A plan to rescue millions of straphangers from sky-high fare hikes and widespread service cuts suddenly veered off track in Albany Tuesday night, sources said.

Sources familiar with the talks between Gov. Paterson’s office, the Assembly and the state Senate said it became unclear that Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith could get a package passed - even without tolls on the city’s free bridges.

“It’s falling apart at the seams,” one source said, adding that some Senate Democrats also appeared to be balking at the employer-paid payroll tax part of the plan.

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