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The Department of Transportation is continuing its pilot program to reduce alternate side parking regulations in the Bronx.

The regulations are going from twice a week to once a week, and from three hours down to 90 minutes in some locations.

Alternate side regulations will be suspended in parts of Kingsbridge, Kingsbridge Heights and Van Cortlandt Village starting on Monday for six to eight weeks as the signs are replaced, and then the new regulations will take effect.

Meanwhile, motorists in Riverdale, Spuyten Duyvil, Marble Hill, and Kingsbridge west of Broadway will be impacted by reduced regulations starting Monday, January 11. Signs in those ares have been going up since October.

The pilot program began last year in Park Slope, Brooklyn and was quickly expanded.

 For more information on the rules changes, call 311 or visit nyc.gov/dot.

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Through the first mile or so of last Saturday’s Mayor’s Cup Cross-country Championship girls varsity race, Rosey Liu was running with the leaders.

But the Bronx Science junior faded badly during the latter portion of the 2.5-mile course through Van Cortlandt Park.

She allowed eight runners to pass her over the final mile, and finished in 18:16.65, good for 19th place.

“Once I got out, I was turning with everyone,” she said. “(But at the end) I couldn’t breathe, and I dropped.”

It wasn’t exactly the performance the Wolverines runner was looking for - especially after a sophomore year that included a fourth-place finish at the Bronx Borough Championships. But the junior was recovering from the flu.

The Wolverines struggled through a variety of hindrances during the first major cross-country meet of the fall, but they still turned in a solid performance that bodes well for the rest of the season.

A handful of Wolverines on the girls and boys teams missed the meet at Van Cortlandt Park to take their SATs.

Others battled the flu, which Lui’s teammate Anna Hewitt says has been making the rounds at W. 205th Street.

“I actually felt sick a couple days ago. I felt lightheaded the whole race,” Hewitt said. “It began with the draft and change in temperature.”

Still, the Science girls impressed veteran coach Ken Miller, who now believes his team will dominate borough competition.

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New York promotes the Bronx’s parks and gardens

Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is blooming!

Despite its urban image, the Bronx has 7,000 acres of park land, about 25% of its total area. In addition to Yankee Stadium and the Bronx Zoo, the borough’s green spaces include the New York Botanical Garden; a 19th century garden overlooking the Hudson River called Wave Hill; and Van Cortlandt and Pelham Bay parks, where you can bird-watch, play golf and ride horses.

New York City is touting the Bronx’s green attractions in a new promotion. “Most people don’t think of the Bronx like that. We want to open their eyes to the actual physical beauty of the Bronx,” said George Fertitta, CEO of NYC & Company, the city’s marketing and tourism organization.

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It’s quite a turnaround for a place that once symbolized urban decay. “Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning,” sportscaster Howard Cosell famously said during a 1977 Yankees game, as footage aired of a building in flames near the stadium. An epidemic of arson plagued the city at the time.

New York is a different place now, billed as America’s safest big city and attracting a record 46 million tourists last year. Many of those tourists are repeat visitors, and “their appetite for something other than Times Square and the Statue of Liberty is enormous,” said Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion Jr., who got an enthusiastic reception talking up the Bronx at a recent tourism conference in Berlin.

Green spaces only comprise part of the Bronx’s attractions. There is also Italian food on Arthur Avenue, a hip-hop music tour, a bed-and-breakfast called Le Refuge Inn, and saltwater swimming at Orchard Beach. For more information, visit the Bronx Tourism Council website at www.ilovethebronx.com or NYC & Company at www.nycvisit.com/bronx. Meanwhile, here are some highlights.

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