Tooting Our Own Horn Ride the rail everybody’s talking about – the Bronx Culture Trolley – after the Center for an Urban Future rated the event a success in its August issue. The next free evening begins at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3 with a new exhibit at Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos, 450 Grand Concourse at 149th Street. Trolleys then leave at 5:30, 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. for the Quijombo Festival at Hostos Reperatory Theater, with Afro-Dominican culture, Quisqueya Henríquez at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and En Foco’s touring gallery of Enid Alvarez’ Puerto Rico series. Then wind down with jazz at J. Maxon’s Bar and Grill. For reservations and information, call (718) 931-9500 ext. 33 or email trolley@bronxarts.org.

To promote his new album, Queens rapper 50 Cent visited the X Bar in University Heights last Friday night.

Police said they have identified a burglary pattern on Grand Avenue (near Fordham Road) that residents should be aware of.

Last Friday night, a man holding a large amount of illegal drugs was shot in the back in the Knox Gates neighborhood in front of 3435 Gates Pl.

Right across from a stretch of Montefiore Medical Center buildings on Kossuth Avenue, an Indian woman was stabbed in the back by an assailant police described as a male Hispanic wearing a white T-shirt and white shorts.

Developer Jack Guttman says he wants to build a beautiful mixed-use apartment building on the western slope of University Heights that will become a catalyst for improvement in a neighborhood crying out for just that.

The Parks Department will begin replacing the track and field in Williamsbridge Oval Park this month. The work kicks off a $13.5 million dollar renovation plan fueled by monies generated by the political deal that allowed the city to build a controversial water filtration plant in nearby Van Cortlandt Park.

Following the resignation of embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Bronx congressmen Eliot Engel and Jose Serrano took the opportunity to throw out a few parting shots.

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz recently announced that Gov. Eliot Spitzer signed his bill, co-sponsored by State Senator Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Queens) that will help keep guns away from convicted felons.