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Bathgate Educational Complex opens new-and-improved gym

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if you've ever been inside the gym at the Bathgate Educational complex in the more senior section of the Bronx, you probably don't even recognize what the room looks like right now completely redone and now reopened at a ribbon cutting ceremony. It's lively, It's bright in here. It's fun and it keeps you, keeps you elevated to keep doing great things. We have more motivation. I mean now we have an actual gym. What we can expect more school officials saying this is something they've wanted to do for 15 years with borough President Vanessa Gibson finally securing the funds. These are safe spaces for these scholars and so investing in this gymnasium is an investment in our young people's future. The gym also about the past named in honor of Joseph Jimenez, a star basketball player who went to Bathgate and was killed in 2016, J. J just was full of life. There's not a day that doesn't go by, I don't think about him and now I have more of a reminder and more of a reason why I do this. JJ's sister given the first dribble on the new court than passing to his best friend to make the very first basket. I didn't want to cry. Like it's just, you know, it's too much, too much love and energy in the air that just goes to show, you know how much energy, you know, my brother put into the world. While police confirmed that JJ's killer still hasn't been caught even six years later. People who know him say this jim. Just one more way to make sure that his name is never forgotten At Bathgate Greg Thompson News 12.

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