In the largest turnout since launching their annual fund-raising gala four years ago, 280 friends and supporters of the Mosholu Montefiore Community Center packed the Faculty Dining Room at Lehman College last week for the event known as "Bursting With Pride."

A shift in an obscure funding line has left the Bedford Park Senior Center struggling to stay afloat. The center lost approximately a third of its budget last July when a city contract for community programs was shifted away from senior services. Most of the $530,000 destined for programs serving the Community District 7 area went to youth initiatives. The Center’s long-standing homebound senior program was abruptly terminated as a result.

Two banks that loan to some of the city’s worst landlords have partnered with a tenants’ advocacy coalition to ensure that the slumlords clean up their acts.

A developer is considering building a hotel on Webster Avenue near PS/MS 20, though not in the location previously reported in the Norwood News.

Five years after it was first funded, a complete transformation of the Williamsbridge Oval’s northern entrance was officially unveiled last week.

Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff, the city’s development czar, will tour the Kingsbridge Armory in two weeks. The visit, scheduled for Thursday, May 4, is a sign of the city’s growing interest in advancing the long-stalled project.

We New Yorkers live in a place where people identify themselves more often by the streets they live on or near than by the borough or the city they call home. That’s both good and bad – good because it reflects a very local sense of community, but bad because it can limit our connection to most of our fellow New Yorkers.

Genoveva Torres, 34, heard about the English classes from a friend. Ana Lilia Perez, 20, learned about them from a cousin. Henry Flores, 36, now in the advanced level, is devoted to the training that might release him from long nights at an East Village bakery.

A packed community meeting on the Kingsbridge Armory last month has spurred movement among city and state leaders on the long stalled project.