"It’s déjà vu all over again." Yogi Berra said it and who knew it would be so applicable to the current controversy involving his old stomping grounds? The juggernaut to destroy two south Bronx parks adjacent to Yankee stadium bears many of the same disturbing hallmarks, and even more troubling new ones, of the city’s almost Messianic push for a water filtration plant in Van Cortlandt Park. Here’s a look at how the two projects compare.

Havana, CUBA – In 2000, Teresa Glover was doing that "young twenties thing," as she put it. She worked at Fidelity investments, lived in Castle Hill with her boyfriend, and had a gym membership.

Murders declined again in New York City in 2005 to a 40-year low of 537. But locally, in the 52nd Precinct, the homicide rate more than doubled, from eight in 2004 to 17 in 2005.

Two Norwood restaurants have gone out of business, leaving owners and regulars with more questions than answers over what it takes to run a successful business here and whether or not salads and bagels are in the equation.

On Nov. 30, plainclothes officers caught and arrested two vandals in the act of defacing the Jerome Avenue overpass at Mosholu Parkway. After attending a debriefing session hosted by the city’s Anti-Vandalism Task Force, the 52nd Precinct officers knew just what they were looking for.

Members of the National Guard’s 145th Maintenance Unit returned home from Iraq on Dec. 29 after the company’s first overseas deployment. The unit, which is based out of the Kingsbridge Armory, spent the last 13 months fixing vehicles and air conditioners in the southern city of Nasiriya.

It’s hard to walk a Bronx block without seeing a bright poster announcing the next bachata or reggaeton concert. The signs seem exotic – emblazoned with tough looking men and sexy women – but many originate from a modest printing plant in Bedford Park.

A controversial management company has taken hundreds of tenants to housing court at an extraordinary pace since purchasing dozens of Bronx buildings last year, according to court records.

Much of the time, democracy can run on autopilot without much more than cursory direction from the citizenry. The checks and balances of the three branches of government and annual trips to the polls are sufficient to prevent tyranny.