NEWS REPOSITORY - BRONX

Your Health - Flu & CoVid Season is Here - You Don't have to be a Victim

Acting NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Michelle Morse Provides an Update on NYC Respiratory Diseases, the Updated Vaccines to Prevent them & Vaccine Access

October 22, 2025 / NYC Health. Bronx News NYC / Brooklyn News NYC / Manhattan News NYC / New York City News NYC / Queens News NYC / Staten Island News NYC.

Click this link to view a video of Acting NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Michelle Morse providing an update on flu, RSV and CoVid diseases, and the vaccines you can use to keep them at bay.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LHaBx2AaEouKbVoT3gyTauTB4EwL1JKm/view

In the talk video referenced above, there is also information about vaccine access for those who may not be able to afford vaccinations on their own, as NYC and NYS have allocated funds to reduce / remove financial barriers to those who wish to be vaccinated but may not be able to afford the shots. In the video they also mention the NYC Health Map link where visitors can find locations where they may obtain access to vaccines, made affordable or free for eligible applicants. But please call 311 to find out how to go about qualifying first. Click this link to view the NYC Health Map, which also includes quite a bit of other health related information.

The image above or at right shows that the respiratory illness season has begun, including CoVid 19, the Flue and RSV. Flu and RSV are on the rise - but from very low levels currently - while CoVid 19 has been declining. Generally things look good as of this posting.

https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/services/health-map.page

Flu, CoVid 19 & RSV in NYC - Currently Updated Chart of Data

https://www.nyc.gov/assets/doh/respiratory-illness-data/index.html

Governor Hochul Bans use of AI in Rent Pricing

October 16, 2025 / Bronx Business & Real Estate / Bronx Politics / Bronx News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Bronx Buzz NYC.

On October 16, 2025 Governor Hochul signed into law a bill which bans the use of AI / software used by landlords to price rents. On August 23, 2024, the Biden Administration Department of Justice filed a civil lawsuit in tandem with the attorney generals of eight states, including the state of California, to ban the use of algorithyms in rental pricing software, claiming that it was essentially price fixing, which is a violation of anti-trust law.

Governor Hochul Signs Law Banning Use of AI in Rental Pricing

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-signs-legislative-package-bolster-homeownership-and-strengthen-protections

Governor Hochul Signs Bill Banning Price Fixing Rentals by Landlords

https://citylimits.org/governor-signs-bill-banning-ny-landlords-from-setting-rents-via-algorithms/

Biden Administration files Anti-Trust Lawsuit Against AI Rentals Pricing / Price Fixing

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-realpage-algorithmic-pricing-scheme-harms-millions-american-renters

Are the Charter Revisions on the 2025 Ballot Pro Affordable Housing or Another Real Estate Developer Power Grab?

Billionaires & Big Real Estate Funded Pols Support the Measures, While Community Activists Oppose Them

You Decide - See Below to Inform Yourself & See Onsite Ads 'Don't Wait, Vote by Mail' for Early & Regular Voting Times & Locations

September 9 - October 13, 2025 / Billionaire Press NYC Billionaire TV News / Bronx Business & Real Estate / Bronx Politics / Bronx News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Bronx Buzz NYC.

The New York League of Conservation Voters did a nice job of articulating what's on the ballot and identifying what both proponents and naysayers say about each [1st link]. We also posted an OpEd dated October 12, 2025 for details of the position of City Club, a civic-minded community group, on four of the ballot measures. City Club has initiated a lawsuit over Charter Revision changes [2nd link]. And lastly, we've included the report of an informative local news source about the measures [3rd link].

NYC News - New York League of Conservation Voters Describes the Pros / Cons of the Charter Revisions on the 2025 NYC Ballot

https://nylcvef.org/citizens-toolkit/nyc-general-election-2025-whats-on-the-ballot/?sourceid=1014461&emci=38590d43-a0a8-f011-8e61-6045bded8ba4&emdi=92c289eb-eca8-f011-8e61-6045bded8ba4&ceid=1384937

NYC News - City Club on NYC Sues to Review Zoning Changes of NYC Ballot Proposals 2, 3 & 4

https://www.gothambuzz.nyc/article/30/nyc-opinions-op-ed-new-york-city

NYC News - Ballot Proposals are a Developer Power Grab that Concentrates Power so It is Easier to Manipulate

https://www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2025/09/council-weakening-housing-proposals-survive-board-elections/408000/

While Governor Hochul parroted the real estate developers' talking point [not plural], stating it's 'to solve the [25 year] affordable housing crisis', her statement was tepid [4th link]. But an outright NO would have been better. But all pols in NYC, NYS and the USA are challenged by the Supreme Court Citizens United decision which essentially allows the super rich billionaires to limitlessly spend to buy pols and elections, so that once in office, the pols will do whatever they want in order to get the funding to get re-elected. That said, Hochul appears to have tried to strike a balance versus press releases I've seen from the real estate industry pushing the changes in their favor.

It's worth noting that the billionaires, real estate developers, and the pols they financially support - including Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo - have been working to solve the affordability crisis in NYC for the past twenty-five years - with something close to ZERO success. To keep letting these same people, keep feeding at the public trough [via public land transfers, tax breaks, cheap financing, government subsidies, favorable zoning changes et al], with no end in sight, makes no sense at all.

Albany NYS News - Governor Hochul's Tepid Statement Supporting NYC Charter Revision Ballot Measures

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/statement-governor-kathy-hochul-108

Vote No on #2, #3, #4 & #6 if you want to protect yourself, your community and your children from even more NYC Oligarchy money and power grabs by billionaires and real estate developers. Eric Adams has already done enough damage to New Yorkers' ability to exercise their community rights, so don't let him hit us one last time, with this donor power grab, on his way out onto the street.

NYS Inflation Refund Checks Coming Soon

To be Deposited or Mailed in October & November 2025

September 26, 2025 / NYS / Bronx Business & Real Estate / Bronx Politics / Bronx News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Bronx Buzz NYC.

The Hochul Administration began sending NYS Inflation Refund checks to the 8.2 million residents of NYS. The refunds will be $150 / $200 or $400 per person depending on income and tax paying related persons status. The ostensible purpose of the checks is to help New Yorkers combat the negative impact of inflation on New Yorkers' household budgets. For details see -

NYS Albany News - NYS has begun Distributing Inflation Refund Checks

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-inflation-refund-checks-are-now-being-sent-82-million-new-york

Collapse at the Mitchel House in the Bronx

This is Part of an Ongoing Saga of Neglect of an Incredibly Valuable Public Asset - NYCHA - Yes NYCHA - Read on

October 1, 2025 / Bronx Business & Real Estate / Bronx Politics / Bronx News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Bronx Buzz NYC.

NYCHA Mitchel House in Mott Haven in the Bronx.

Billionaire TV News fails to recognize NYCHA's intrinsic land value, and in fact constantly aids and abets the wealthy real estate investors by disparaging NYCHA. Thus the NYC public is kept in the dark, ignorant of the real value and potential of all of the incredibly large swaths of prime real estate to which NYCHA holds title. And which could be used to address NYC's affordable housing crisis by building and selling apartments to New Yorkers at prices pegged to the median income in the city, transferrable via a lottery, at sale prices also pegged to median income.

In the photo above or at right, you see the top of the Mitchel House NYCHA complex in Mott Haven in the Bronx. Most of the damage essentially destroyed the chimney which one stood between the far left line of windows and the far left side of the building. As you can see, it was a pretty clean sweep.

The value of NYCHA is realized by the billionaires and real estate developers who fund the pols in office, and then turn around and cut deals with the pols to transfer publicly owned NYCHA land to them for pocket change on the dollar, in exchange for what only can be described as something close to an indiscernible public value.

But TV News, the well funded pols and the wealthy real estate investors who fund both, seem to look out only for themselves. While making tenants of New Yorkers, byhanding out billions in tax breaks, cheap land and cheap financing to the uber wealthy, thus continuing to transfer wealth to them by taking it from ignorant working class New Yorkers who are kept in the dark.

The photo above or at right was taken a few days ago at the Mitchel House NYCHA complex in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx. The explosion destroyed a chimney, but that appears to have been a clean break, and the sum total of the damage to the complex, which is fairly negligible given the size of the structure. Nobody was hurt.

In the second photo above or at right, you're looking at the base of the chimney of the Mitchel House NYCA building, which again shows a fairly clean break from the rest of the building, leaving me to guess [completely guess] that little structural damage has been done to the rest of the building. Workmen were working on cleaning up the debris when I took these photos on Sunday 10.5.25.

NYC Bronx News - Mitchel House NYCHA Complex Experiences Gas Explosion in a Chimney - Nobody Hurt & Damage Seems Contained

https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/01/nycha-explosion-bronx-mitchel-houses/

Three Casino Proposals Gain Approval by Fairly 'New' Community Boards

Tuesday, September 30, 2025 / Bronx, Queens NYC & Yonkers NYS / Bronx Business & Real Estate / Bronx Politics / Bronx News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Bronx Buzz NYC.

Proposals for casinos at Resorts World in Queens, Ballys in the Bronx, and the most recent approval at in Flushing Meadows Corona Park were all approved by community boards that have undergone significant turnover in the past five to ten years. Many of the reconstituted community boards now appear to serve the billionaires and real estate developers instead of their communities.  A fourth casino proposal is for MGM Empire City in Yonkers, which was also approved.

NYC Queens News - CitiField Casino Proposal Passes Community Board

https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/30/citi-field-casino-queens-casino-steve-cohen/

Yankees Clinch Playoff Berth in the MLB Playoffs

Update _ Thursday, October 9, 2025 / Bronx Politics / Bronx News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Bronx Buzz NYC.

Yankees lose to Toronto 5 - 2, losing the third of four games in the playoff series, ending their season and pennant hopes.

Wednesday, September 24, 2025 / Bronx NYC. Yankees step up and are now contenders in the World Series.

Bronx News NYC - Yankees Clinch 2025 Playoff Berth

https://www.mlb.com/news/yankees-clinch-2025-playoff-berth?msockid=2d203cb5997f631635a42acd98c162af

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This ends the local news feed _ 11.4.25