The family living in the Tracey Towers apartment destroyed by a fire last month says the incident could have been prevented if management had responded to prior repair requests.

After 30 years as a New Yorker, Felix Grimaldo decided it was finally time to become an American. Grimaldo, 66, sure seemed like one. He paid his taxes on income from a range of jobs that included cooking for Wall Street workers, staffing a Hilton hotel and igniting Malibu 151 as a bartender of exotic Polynesian drinks. His English was good. His baseball vocabulary was better.

An explosive fire erupted at Tracey Towers on Feb. 26, leaving charred apartments and extensive damage to several floors of the complex. The three-alarm fire was the second blaze in less than a month at the troubled development.

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz is sparring with a real estate company after its officials denied treating two of his constituents improperly.

Modern playground equipment, new shrubbery and more are on tap for the Devoe Park renovation project, which is expected to begin this spring and take about a year to complete.

Information is the lifeblood of our democracy. Yet, too few citizens know that they have the right to see much of the information that our government produces.

Albert Rivera could be forgiven for not being able to remember the piece he played at his first Carnegie Hall gig- he was only 12 years old at the time. And he’s played there twice since. Now only 23, Rivera’s path from local prodigy to touring musician, recording artist and teacher has made for a thrilling trajectory, like a snippet of a solo played by his hero, jazz legend John Coltrane.

The blizzard of ’06 was especially cold for residents of the Fordham Hill Cooperative last weekend as they were caught in the middle of a labor dispute pitting maintenance workers against the management company.

Elected officials are championing a community benefits agreement signed for the new Bronx Terminal mall as groundbreaking, but some community groups say the precedent-setting nature of the pact is exactly what they’re worried about.