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Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s successful campaign for a third term was widely anticipated, but the results were not without surprises.

Bronx voters supported city Comptroller Bill Thompson, the Democratic nominee, over Mr. Bloomberg, an independent, 60.8 percent to 37.1 percent, the largest borough-wide margin for the challenger. Brooklyn was the only other borough to give Mr. Thompson a victory, and by a much smaller margin of 50.9 percent to 45.3 percent.

Riverdale, though, went for Mr. Bloomberg. Districts 80 and 81, comprising Pelham Parkway, Norwood, Woodlawn and Riverdale, were the only districts in the Bronx to favor Mr. Bloomberg. In district 80, Mr. Bloomberg received 7,041 votes to Mr. Thompson’s 6,377, and in district 81, it was an even bigger gap of 9,698 votes to 6,732, according to polling data. Read more..

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Renaming An Old School Make It A New School? 

School advocates at the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition were thrilled when they read in Mayor Bloomberg’s school construction plan that the city had built a new, 300-student school in their neighborhood.

They thought it might alleviate classroom overcrowding, but there was a problem: It wasn’t true.

According to City Councilman Oliver Koppell, the city had merely just put a new name on an old school.

“We have a number of schools that are substantially overcrowded,” he said. But instead of building new schools, the city is “trying to placate everybody, trying to make it seem like they’re doing more than they’re really doing.”

Middle School 143 in Kingsbridge had been shut down because of poor performance and the New School for Leadership and Journalism, a high school, had opened in its place.

“This was a shock and a half,” said Desiree Pilgrim-Hunter, a member of the coalition board and the mother of a girl who attends an overcrowded high school. “They say they’re building schools, and we’re discovering that they’re just reclaiming seats.”

Bloomberg’s historic $13.1 billion school construction plan calls for 100 new schools for 63,000 children by 2012.

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