Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, along with a number of city and state legislators, is supporting an alternative to Mayor Bloomberg’s Congestion Pricing Plan. Under this alternate plan, which is headed by Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, the burden for reducing congestion would be moved off regular motorists commuting to Manhattan and placed onto cab and limousine riders.

Congressman Eliot Engel is supporting the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008. The legislation seeks to curtail nearly $18 billion in tax subsidies for oil companies, and reallocate them for renewable energy and energy efficiency programs.

Public and community meetings in the northwest Bronx.

If not for his vivid eye color, Andrew Maestre might not have been so easily fingered as the prime suspect in the first murder case of the year in the 52nd Police Precinct.

Longtime Norwood resident Anna Rogovin, 91, was struck by a tractor-trailer last Thursday morning. After the accident, Rogovin made it through emergency surgery. Both of her legs had to be amputated. She is now breathing on her own and in stable condition.

Reports from the 52nd Police Precinct: Mystery Shooting at the X Bar…Cops Supervise Fat Joe Appearance…Sidekick Robberies Near Fordham.

Students sit on stools in a lab, all of their attention focused on the guest professor standing at the front of the classroom. He pulls a rubber ball out of a container of liquid nitrogen, and tosses it to the ground as if he were going to bounce it. Instead, the ball, frozen, shatters into pieces. The students think it’s awesome.

A crate of apples greeted parents and students at PS/MS 15 last week, as part of a school expedition on health and wellness. A long table was filled with healthy food – vegetables, whole wheat cereal and bars, juice boxes, and low-calorie snacks, all part of a free raffle.

Bright, colorful art projects decorate the art room at PS 340, from replicas of ancient Mayan masks to papier-mâché gourd bowls. They are all the work of the students.