Local business drops in new stadium’s first year

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It was the top of the sixth inning in the first game of the World Series between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies and Joe Bastone’s Yankee Tavern was at half-capacity.

The start of the game had been better. “It was busy, not crazy,” said Bastone, 52, the owner and president of the famous Bronx bar and restaurant. Considering the current economic climate, the bar’s crowd may have been a surprise. But this was no ordinary baseball game. Read the full story

Yankee wins, a working boiler, safe streets

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As September gives way to October in Highbridge and the first cold winds are felt by its residents, many of those in the neighborhood have three hopes: the Yankees will still be playing, the boiler in the apartment building will still be working, and the neighborhood streets and parks will be safer. Read the full story