Beloved old Yankee Stadium, scene of 86 years of beauty and drama, sits alone across the street from its popular young replacement, awaiting execution. It won’t be long until the familiar silhouette begins to shrink, then disappears, and the trucks take it away as rubble. But there’s still time to save a little piece of it-and we’ll never stop regretting it if we don’t.

With seven Bronx post offices on the chopping block, including the Botanical Station site in Bedford Park, local officials and residents urged the Postal Service for a stay of execution.

Hundreds of runners descended upon Van Cortlandt Park last Saturday for the sixth annual Mayor’s Cup Cross-Country Championships. The 2.5-mile varsity races included several impressive performances from local Bronx high schools.

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Fernando Cabrera, a 45-year-old pastor and college professor who, a little more than a year ago switched political parties and moved to the Bronx, is poised to become the new City Council representative for the 14th District.

Overcoming a feisty, well-financed challenger as well as considerable political turbulence for championing the extension of term limits and breaking with allies in a divisive battle for party leadership in the borough, Council Member Oliver Koppell secured the Democratic nomination on Sept. 15 and a certain path to a third term.

At Fernando Cabrera’s primary victory party at Maestro’s catering hall last Tuesday, a young man wearing a blue Cabrera T-shirt introduced himself to a reporter. "I’m James Bond," he said.

His real name, actually, is John Zaccaro and he was also one of more than 100 members of Cabrera’s New Life Outreach International Church who got off their pews and stepped into politics this primary season.

Sam Aboah looked around with pride at the dark-skinned and brightly-dressed crowd of people gathered in the Bronx’s Crotona Park on a hot Sunday afternoon in August.

He was surveying the results of the first-ever Ghanaian parade and festival and the culmination of months of hard work by himself and many of his fellow Ghanaian transplants.