Bangladeshi Community Prays for Missing Bedford Park Mother

Report: Missing Bedford Park Mom Could Be Dead

By DAVID CRUZ

Police have spent the last two weeks conducting an active search for a Bedford Park woman they say has been missing since December. Investigators have intensified the search after the woman’s husband and 9-year-old daughter flew to his native Bangladesh a week after the woman was reported missing. Across the Bronx, members of the Bedford Park community are now demanding the husband, Mohammad Chowdury, show himself to answer questions about the whereabouts of his wife, Mahfuza Rahman, last seen on Dec. 8 at around 4:35 p.m. Mohammed N. Mujumder, a lawyer immersed in the Bronx’s Bangladeshi community in Soundview, spoke at

By DANIELA BEASLEY

The Concourse Yards Development proposal is an innovative idea but not the first time that this airspace has been looked at to become something more for the Bronx. For years, a number of projects similar to Diaz’s current proposal languished in development, with starts and stops that cost the city millions, or ignored completely. It’s a fate that could or could not mar the proposals this time around. An original proposal dates back to 1961 when a plan to create a platform over the Concourse Yards in Bedford Park was proposed by Bronx Community College (BCC). The platform would have

By DAVID GREENE

Police are looking for an individual who stabbed a young man along in Bedford Park following a wild street brawl involving teen thugs. Officers from the 52nd Precinct and paramedics were called to 3201 Grand Concourse, at the corner of Van Cortlandt Avenue East, when they discovered the victim lying on the ground at 8:30 p.m. The suspect, meantime, fled. Offering few details, NYPD spokesman Detective Martin Speechley said, “The victim stated an unknown male stabbed him with an object in the back and he suffered a small laceration and we have no arrests at this time.” A spokesman for the FDNY the victim, believed to

At a low-income residence for the elderly in Kingsbridge, a resident opened their window one recent grey morning and plunged to their death, spattering on the pavement. The suicide, happening at the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Webb Avenue Residence directly across from the James J. Peters Veterans Administration Hospital, startled plenty of onlookers even as a security guard draped a white blanket over the body. Many began their work day with the disturbing image burned in their mind, and plenty of questions. The suicide wasn’t even a blip in the local media’s radar, except the Norwood News’, which made note

Police have begun an active search for a Bedford Park woman they say has been missing since December. Investigators have intensified the search after the woman’s husband and child have also vanished. Police have so far zeroed in on the small, two-story home the couple lived. On March 6, a cadre of investigators, officers and police dogs were combing through the home on East 198th Street off Jerome Avenue. It had been empty except for stacks of mail left unattended for months. In front of the home was a mound of dirt neighbors said was dug up by police. The missing

By DAVID CRUZ

Zaleen Julia, 12, stood carefully monitoring the group of 10 young girls staring intently at their Dell computers. They sat inside the boxy computer lab at St. James Park Recreation Center in Fordham, learning how to code, or giving a computer program a voice. But the tedious work transformed into a thrilling exercise for the girls, utilizing a program dubbed Python, software that helps visualize the coding process. There were girls as young as 10 years old in the class, all decked out in pink T-shirts. Zaleen, a student at MS 244, wants to be a dancer, but she’s certainly

Senior Homeowners Fair The Parodneck Foundation in partnership with University Neighborhood Housing Program hosts a free Senior Homeowners Fair on March 15 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Serviam Gardens Bldg., 323 E. 198th St. Seniors can meet with certified housing counselors and attorneys for free financial and legal advice. For more information and to RSVP, call (212) 431-9700 ext. 391. Free Tax Services Councilman Ritchie Torres hosts free tax preparation services for Bronx residents at his office, 573 E. Fordham Rd., from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., every day except Thursdays and Sundays; Mondays till 7 p.m. For

COMMUNITY BOARD 7 will host its general board meeting March 15 at 6:30 p.m. at the St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church, 2345 University Ave. CB7 committees are held on the following dates at the board office, 229A E. 204th St. at 6:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted: Education/Libraries & Youth Services committee on March 8; Senior Services committee on March 9; Parks & Recreation committee on March 9; Traffic & Transportation committee on March 10; Veterans committee on March 10; and Housing/Land Use & Zoning committee on March 16. For more information, call (718) 933-5650. THE 52ND PRECINCT COMMUNITY COUNCIL will

By JASMINE GOMEZ

For a few moments, Elizabeth Quaranta sat in the middle of a big pile of dirt where a beloved tree stump once stood. Found along Mosholu Parkway South between Bainbridge and Marion avenues, the tree base once decorated with lilies and other ornaments was removed by the New York City Department of Parks on Feb. 18. The uprooting of the stump, once dubbed by Quaranta as the “Giving Tree,” left many community members mournful. To many, the tree stump served as the communal arbor for neighborhood residents, where many often met up to sit and chitchat. “The community saw it