A suspicious fire and ongoing maintenance issues at Tracey Towers have sparked anger among residents and a rebellion against tenant leaders.

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz is speaking out against the controversial practices of the Pinnacle Group after he discovered the management company aggressively went after two vulnerable tenants in his district.

Rookie cop Eric Hernandez, a beat officer from the 52nd Precinct’s Operation Impact, was laid to rest nearly two weeks after being shot in error by a fellow officer responding to an assault at a White Castle on Webster Avenue.

As the Norwood News reported last issue, the construction of 21 new schools in the city’s capital plan have been scrapped by the Bloomberg administration because state money is not in the pipeline.

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz deserves credit for being the first elected official in the Bronx to utter a public word about the contemptible practices of the Pinnacle Group.

Virtually everyone in the Bronx is familiar with the tragic details surrounding the death of Quachaun Browne, the 4-year-old Norwood boy who was horrifically beaten allegedly by his mother’s boyfriend. But far fewer people are familiar with this statistic: there are 13,000 reports of abuse every year in this borough alone.

Pronouncing himself "sick and tired of talking about the Kingsbridge Armory," Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión, Jr. said he expected "action" in the long-delayed renovation of the Kingsbridge Armory within the next 24 months.

Neighbors, friends of the family, and acquaintances streamed into McKeon Funeral Home Tuesday night to say goodbye to Quachaun Brown, the 4-year-old whose death shocked the city just as it was suffering through the aftermath of Nixmary Brown’s death two weeks earlier.

Bronx tenants, led by Housing Here and Now, staged a protest a few weeks ago calling on New York Community Bancorp (NYCB) to stop loaning money to the city’s worst landlords.