Forum on New Healthcare Bill The public is invited to a free forum hosted by the Northwest Bronx for Change and the Benjamin Franklin Reform Democratic Club on the new healthcare legislation in Tibbott Towers’ community room, 3130 Irwin Ave. (north of 231st Street), on April 24 at 11 a.m. Learn about the immediate and future changes to healthcare. March for Babies Fund-raiser The March of Dimes NY Division will hold the second annual March for Babies in Van Cortlandt Park’s Parade Ground on May 2 at 8 a.m. The walk begins at the Tortoise and Hare sculpture at 246th

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Bronx jazz venues like Club 845 and the Blue Morocco are long gone, but the stories of the musicians who put them on the map are now living on at the Bronx County Historical Society, thanks to David Carp, a prominent music journalist and librarian, who officially handed off his collection of 200 interviews at an event earlier this month.

Ming Kuang Chen, the Chinese food delivery man trapped in a Tracey Towers elevator for four days, had reportedly paid $60,000 to be smuggled into America. While illegal immigrants like Chen often end up with large debts and long work hours, many are willing to endure such hardships in pursuit of the American dream.

Reversing a previous position, the members of a committee monitoring the construction of the filtration plant in Van Cortlandt Park have decided to open the meetings to the public.

No one would have wished it on him or anyone else, but the plight of Ming Kuang Chen, the Chinese delivery man who suffered an involuntary lost weekend in a stuck elevator at Tracey Towers three weeks ago, might serve as an impetus for change at the troubled development.

Bronx jazz venues like Club 845 and the Blue Morocco are long gone, but the stories of the musicians who put them on the map are now living on at the Bronx County Historical Society, thanks to David Carp, a prominent music journalist and librarian, who officially handed off his collection of 200 interviews at an event earlier this month.

Fighting in a foreign land for the first time in their unit’s history, members of the Army National Guard 145th Maintenance Company, based out of the Kingsbridge Armory, are currently housed at the Tallil Air Base in Iraq, while needed supplies sit at a U.S. military base in Georgia.

Disrupting a relative period of calm in the 52nd Precinct, there were three murders in just two weeks in 52nd Precinct from April 9 to 16. There had been only one murder in the first three months of the year, a March 17 shooting at a barber shop on Webster Avenue.

Teacher Karen Griswold switched a recent session of her adult literacy class from the usual focus on reading and writing to a lesson in mathematics. Sitting in a circle, students took turns listing the proposed federal cuts that could decimate their education program.