In mid-August, the 52nd Precinct lost its Impact officers to the 40th Precinct, which was dealing with an outbreak of shootings. With only a small class of police cadets scheduled to graduate in December due to budget constraints, it is unclear when the successful program will return.

What students want, students get. After Monroe College student surveys showed a strong interest in developing a master’s program in criminal justice, the college responded by creating a Master of Science program to accompany their Bachelor of Science program in criminal justice.

Newly elected AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, the nation’s top labor leader, touched down in the Bronx on Tuesday afternoon to stand with local activists and union members in their ongoing struggle to exact significant concessions from The Related Companies, the developer of the Kingsbridge Armory project.

We just had a very competitive primary election in two City Council districts.

But the turnout was pathetic.

Less than 10 percent of registered Democrats – i.e. those who were eligible to vote – went to the polls. The citywide turnout was similar, not that that’s much of a consolation.

Why is that?

It’s hard to know exactly.

Maybe part of the problem was that there was such a low-profile Democratic primary for mayor and no Republican primary.

Or maybe the extension of term limits really turned people off since they had already voted twice for two-term limits for city politicians.

But we suspect that the main reason is that most people just don’t know who their City Council member is or what he does. And maybe that’s the fault of each individual voter.

But we can’t just leave it at that.

In the most recent issue of our sister newspaper, the Tremont Tribune (covers the neighborhoods of Community Board 6), we report on a troubling trend of over-leveraged landlords finding themselves in hot water in buildings they paid way too much for. Fordham Towers is exhibit #1, but it is only one of many buildings facing, or on the brink of, a crisis.

My name is Robert Lopez. I’m a longtime Norwood resident. When I first moved to Norwood by Gun Hill Road and Jerome Avenue, the neighborhood was mainly middle class, working folks. It was a very desirable, quiet and convenient place to live with mass transit and shopping around the corner. Fast forward to the present, I am sad to say that within the past five to six years, and despite some nice curb-appeal improvements like new street trees and renovated parks in Norwood, I have noticed the working class fleeing out of Norwood in disgust of what the neighborhood is becoming as the working class in Norwood is slowly being replaced by people on public assistance, Section 8, HASA and other city subsidized programs. Of course I am not saying all subsidized people are low-class. However, as we all know, the "bad apples" ruin it for the good ones. It is these "bad apples" that I refer to.

High School football is back in full force across the Bronx. Here’s a quick roundup of all the latest scores and highlights from our local teams in the northwest Bronx.

State Senator Pedro Espada, Jr. met with leaders of the Jerome-Gun Hill Business Improvement District (BID) on Saturday, Sept. 12 to discuss economic development opportunities and community needs.

This past summer, national clothing chain American Eagle Outfitters gave $9,000 in funding to the Mosholu Preservation Corporation’s horticultural program to aid the Parks Department in cleaning, beautifying and maintaining parks in the community.