With the black netting shroud now removed after months of brick pointing work, the exterior of the 52nd Precinct headquarters on Webster Avenue looks relatively fresh and vibrant. The commander’s office, inside the landmarked building, with its new couches and a giant flat-screen TV, also looks refurbished.

"It’s a new look, a new era," says Deputy Inspector John D’Adamo, the office’s new occupant and the precinct’s new commanding officer.

Two cops from the 52nd Precinct have been suspended without pay after a video surfaced of them pounding and kicking a handcuffed suspect after a failed drug bust near the corner of Davidson Avenue and Fordham Road in early January.

A man identified as Victor Anderson, 26, of Brooklyn, was murdered early Saturday morning, Jan. 30, on Dekalb Avenue, just north of Gun Hill Road in the Norwood section of the Bronx.

In this issue, we profile the energetic new commander of the 52nd Precinct, John D’Adamo.

Deputy Inspector D’Adamo is getting off to a good start fighting crime and opening lines of communication with local residents (he has attended several meetings at Community Board 7). If he can take a big bite out of chronic criminal activity like the prostitution on Jerome Avenue and other major problems that have plagued the precinct for years, then he will be a local hero.

D’Adamo tracks crime by placing colored pushpins on a map in his office. This method indicates what kinds of crimes cluster where. He then deploys the appropriate teams to those areas.

It’s a critical tool. If the Police Department released this information to the public, it would be even more useful. The CompStat reports provided to the public only indicate the level of crime precinct-wide. It does not, like the map in D’Adamo’s office, tell you whether a spike in car thefts stems from a problem on your block or a mile away.

We have received stats for particular sectors in the 52nd Precinct, but only after filing repeated Freedom of Information Law requests with NYPD headquarters.

It shouldn’t be this hard.

Every New Yorker has the right to know how prevalent a particular crime is on their block, especially since the NYPD is already collecting this data. Arming residents with this info is like adding a no-cost crime-fighting tool on every block in the precinct.

Now that the dust has settled and everyone is celebrating the wonderful victory over the evil developer who was about to be given such a wonderful resource that we had such great use of – The Kingsbridge Armory – I find myself asking, "What has been lost and what has been gained?"

Since the Foodtown supermarket burned down, we have been forced to shop in other local stores. Could you please consider a story on how area managers deny residents the use of manufacturers’ coupons on sale items?

Twice a week after school for the past few months, a group of preteens have gathered in a brightly-painted basement youth center beneath the gray streets of the Knox-Gates neighborhood to create multimedia “time capsules” about their lives.

The multimedia-focused program is managed by the Knox-Gates Neighborhood Association, which recently recovered responsibility for running the COVE youth center, after handing it off to the Mosholu Montefiore Community Center (MMCC) just two years ago.

Fans and visitors entering the Bronx High School of Science gymnasium are greeted with a huge placard featuring the faces of seven stoic looking men arranged underneath the text "Alumni Winners of the Nobel Prize."

But to believe that brains would inhibit the Bronx Science basketball team’s ability to play would be a gross underestimation.

In the wake of a series of devastating earthquakes in Haiti, four clinicians from the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx took part in the rescue efforts. Here’s their tale.