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The city is calling in the Army to save the Bronx River - the Army Corps of Engineers, that is.

In a move that gives new meaning to the term green initiative, the city Parks Department will partner with the Army Corps of Engineers to rebuild a wetlands habitat near the mouth of the river in Soundview Park.

The Corps will foot most of the bill for the $6.3 million project to restore the 3-acre salt marsh, with the Parks Department providing the remaining 35% of the funding.

The Corps is designing the project now, but will contract with a local construction company later this year to do the work, expected to get underway in the fall.

The work will start with clearing away rubble, landfill and construction debris dumped there over the years to raise the low-lying former wetland above the water line, according to Soundview Project Manager Ronald Pinzon.

“There was a lot of stuff dumped there,” Pinzon said. “Rocks, pieces of concrete, even a few refrigerators. Read more..

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Taxi drivers, grocery store owners and a group of mothers are all backing Saturday’s first gun buy-back program in the Bronx.

“It’s to our personal concern that programs like this do work,” said Fernando Mateo, head of the New York State Federation of Taxis and the Bodegero Association. “These are the industries most affected by gun violence in New York City.”

As he directed dozens of taxi drivers and bodega owners to hang up posters for the No Questions Asked event co-sponsored by the Bronx district attorney’s office and the NYPD, he thought of Crown Heights bodega owner Mohammed Monsoor Abuzaid and his son Abdul, 18, who were shot and killed during a robbery. Read more..

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NYC family’s Thanksgiving ‘miracle’: Tot survives fall out window

NEW YORK - The father of a baby boy who crawled out a third-floor window during his family’s Thanksgiving festivities says the child not only survived his fall, but didn’t even break any bones.

The boy _ little more than a year old _ wriggled through a Bronx apartment window Thursday afternoon. His relatives say they thought the window was closed.

Police say the boy fell about 20 feet onto the roof of a music store next door. Police and the boy’s father, Brandon Priebe, say he didn’t have any major injuries. The boy was in stable condition later Thursday at a local hospital, where no update on his condition was available early Friday.

The boy’s mother, Anna Priebe, says “it’s a miracle.”

Source: NewsDay.com

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