A new public art project created to promote music in the five boroughs this summer is already off key in the Bronx.

Two of the four Bronx pianos in the new, "Play Me, I’m Yours," arts program – one at Fordham Plaza and another at Sackerah Woods Playground in Van Cortlandt Park – were seriously damaged by overzealous young Beethovens within the first week of the exhibit.

It was an early weekday morning. State Senate candidate Gustavo Rivera and a handful of his volunteers worked the rush hour crowd on the downtown platform of the Fordham Road 4-train station.

While lawmakers in Albany have yet to come to an agreement on a state budget for the next fiscal year-despite being nearly three months past deadline-the New York City Council and Mayor Michael Bloomberg agreed on a $63 billion city budget on June 24.

Tolentine was one of 50 senior centers in the five boroughs that the Bloomberg Administration had slated for closure, because of cuts laid out in the city’s 2011 budget.

But last Thursday night, the unexpected happened. Approximately half of these centers, including Tolentine, were handed a reprieve when Bloomberg and City Council speaker Christine Quinn struck a deal to restore funding.

In early June, city and elected officials celebrated the opening of a brand new senior assisted-living facility on Webb Avenue. At the same time, agency leaders and housing consultants lamented the potential loss of the program that led to the facility’s creation.

During its final meeting before the summer hiatus, Community Board 7 held a closed-door session and voted overwhelmingly to direct District Manager Fernando Tirado to take a leave of absence while he runs for senate as a Democrat in the 33rd District.

A pair of suspicious fires broke out on top of scaffolding around the Tracey Towers housing complex on Sunday afternoon.

Detectives are looking for the individual who shot and killed a man along Perry Avenue, a quiet tree-lined street in Norwood, just three short blocks from the 52nd Precinct.

The trolley operated by the Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation (BOEDC) is perhaps best known for touring borough residents and visitors around arts and culture attractions in the south Bronx during "First Wednesdays." But that’s not all the retro red-and-green vehicle is being pressed into service for.