The Bronx Assembly delegation that overwhelmingly supported the city’s plans to build a water filtration plant in Van Cortlandt Park is now calling on state and city officials to investigate and hold hearings on the project’s escalating cost overruns and other problems.

The mall and recreation complex coming to the Kingsbridge Armory will undoubtedly host well-known retail stores and provide more goods to local shoppers, but it is unclear if this kind of new business will provide good jobs for Bronx workers.

With the chill of fall finally taking hold after an extended summer in New York City, the Norwood News is back with our annual school preview. As in recent years, school communities are dealing with a mind-boggling slate of changes in the system.

So far in 2007, according to police statistics for the 52nd Precinct, graffiti complaints are up 45 percent and arrests are up 31 percent. That doesn’t necessarily mean there’s more graffiti, says Lieutenant Steve Phalen, the special operations officer for the 52nd Precinct, but it does mean people are being more vocal about their disdain for it.

The New York City Water Board’s proposal for an 18 percent rate increase was met with stiff opposition from Bronx Council Member Oliver Koppell.

Bronx Congressman Eliot Engel said that President Bush condemned millions of American children to a tentative future by vetoing the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP).

Joined by some 100 New York City high school students, Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion went downtown Sunday to admonish city agencies for not providing enough after-school options for youth.

Two Saturdays ago, members of Sistas and Brothas United (SBU) held a rally in Poe Park and then marched in unison to the steps of the vacant and contaminated old Fordham Library on Bainbridge Avenue. If this appears to be a misprint, it’s because it was the third rally there in the past few months.

After members of the Ku Klux Klan distributed numerous racist flyers in Manassas, Virginia, specifically targeting immigrants, Bronx Congressman Jose Serrano introduced legislation condemning their actions.