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Two Inwood Avenue buildings are nearly done, a 292-unit supportive and affordable building on River Avenue is below grade, and a 328-unit project with a public health center has just started.

Saturday brings the first day of early voting, the last day to register, a free Diwali festival on Broadway and a Sixth Avenue street fair. Expect no 4 train in the South Bronx, no J between Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan, and a split G.

Five elevators replaced at the Bronx's busiest station have struggled since April. One, the only elevator to the Bedford Park- and Norwood-bound platform, has been out since June 29 and isn't due back until Jan. 31.

CUNY CARES, which re-enrolled about 1,000 Bronx students in SNAP and helps fight evictions, will expand to Queensborough Community College next year and to all seven CUNY community colleges by 2029.

The Midtown complex will get four elevators and a step-free link to the 5 Av 7 platforms. Work has also started at Kingsbridge Rd, 167 St, Gates Av, Briarwood and Parsons Blvd.

New York's Medicaid director says the Bronx's high unemployment qualifies the borough for a federal hardship exemption that will apply by home address, with nothing for members to file. The state has drafted, but not yet sent, its letter to federal regulators.