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It won’t be ready for the Yankees’ home opener on April 16, but Metro-North Railroad plans to open its station at Yankee Stadium about a month later, on May 23, the railroad announced yesterday.Bronx Bombers fans from the suburbs will first be able to ride Metro-North to a Saturday game against Philadelphia.

“They will have direct, fast, convenient and reliable service to Yankee games so that they don’t have to worry about traffic,” Metro-North President Howard Permut said yesterday, as he and other railroad officials showed the nearly complete stop to the media. “It will be much more comfortable. We think it will be basically a home run for the people of Westchester and Connecticut.” Read more..

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Algenis Perez Soto in ‘Sugar’: from the Dominican Republic to the Bronx

Local filmmakers Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden step up to bat with ‘Sugar’

 One of their early films, “Gowanus, Brooklyn,” won the shorts prize at the

 Sundance Film Festival in 2004, and three years later their first feature-length film, “Half Nelson” earned an Oscar nod for star Ryan Gosling. Now, Brooklyn-based writing-directing team Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden have a new project, “Sugar,” about the unlikely journey of an aspiring minor league baseball player, Miguel “Sugar” Santos (newcomer Algenis Perez Soto), from his humble home in the Dominican Republic, to the corn fields of Iowa, to the melting pot that is the Bronx.

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