Bernard Daly, the project manager for the city’s massive water filtration plant project under way in Van Cortlandt Park, is relentlessly upbeat. Despite the cost overruns, delays, federal fines and accusations of impropriety in the siting of the plant on public parkland, Daly looks out over the sheer vastness of the $3 billion undertaking and beams.

With the high school baseball season just starting to heat up, local teams are busy working out the knots and kinks of the long hiatus. This corner of the borough will be duly represented by its usual teams.

On April 10, dozens of friends, family and co-workers of Megan Charlop gathered with their bicycles in front of the Bronx Museum of History (Valentine-Varian House) on Bainbridge Avenue.

Students at PS 86 in Kingsbridge will have the opportunity to expand their horizons beyond the Bronx and all the way to Japan, thanks to a late contribution from State Senator Pedro Espada, Jr.

Onstage The Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, located at 250 Bedford Pk. Blvd. E., presents Legends of Salsa 3, featuring salsa greats and Jimmy Delgado’s Orchestra, April 24 at 8 p.m. (tickets are $40 to $55); and The Spencers: Theatre of Illusion, featuring magicians, April 25 at 4 p.m. (tickets are $15 to $25; $10 for ages 12 and under). For more information, call (718) 960-8833. The Bronx Arts Ensemble presents Chamber Music at Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, 895 Shore Road, April 25 at 3 p.m. For more information, call (718) 601-7399. The Bronx Library Center, at 310 E. Kingsbridge

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Sidewalk denizens stood dazed and confused outside of Norwood’s suddenly shuttered Mosholu Station post office at 3445 Jerome Ave. this week. Four fliers taped to the location’s security screen informed them of the post office’s temporary closure, made necessary due to "structural damage" that required immediate repair.

A funky concoction of noises emanate from the windows of a squat building between the St. Brendan’s Church and school on East 207th Street in Norwood, indicating an air of constant activity.

A group of tenants in a nightmare North Fordham building is seeking the removal of their landlord.

Last Thursday, about 30 tenants from 2710 Bainbridge Ave. along with Assemblyman Jose Rivera, attorneys from the Urban Justice Center, and members of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC), held a rally after they filed a lawsuit to have their building management transferred to an independent administrator known as a 7A.

Community groups and elected officials rallied at the Bronx County Courthouse on Tuesday afternoon to underscore the overcrowding problems in Bronx schools and renew the push for new schools at the Kingsbridge Armory’s annex buildings.