One of our seniors was recently mugged during the daytime hours in his apartment building. He was robbed and badly injured. At present, he is slowing recovering from his injuries. We are all outraged to see a friend and, for that matter, anyone suffer such a brutal and unnecessary attack. Fortunately, his building has security cameras and there are photos of the suspect. Even with the photos of the suspect we have no arrest yet from the 52nd Precinct. Is this case and other similar ones a priority for our police? Currently, there has been no information given to very concerned and frightened members of the community.

I have concerns about the new school that is scheduled to be constructed on the site of a former parking lot on Webster Avenue and East 205th Street. While I understand the need for more classroom seats in a district that has been chronically overcrowded for years, the 11 two-family homes that are adjacent to the property will have to endure months, perhaps years, of noise, traffic, dust, and loss of privacy.

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In a sharp break from his predecessor’s lenient approach to development in the borough, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz has applied the brakes to a city-backed proposal to turn the Kingsbridge Armory into a shopping mall.

Reconfirming long-held beliefs by local watchdogs and activists, the city comptroller’s office released a report recently saying that, from the beginning, the Croton Water Filtration Plant being built in Van Cortlandt Park has been, and continues to be, a huge, money-eating disaster.

Pedro Espada Jr.’s new district office, eight months in the making, sits seven floors above the street in a swank office building on Fordham Road. It’s beautiful. New carpeting, new paint job. Giant photos of the controversial Bronx State Senator adorn the back wall. One shows Espada wearing a suit and red boxing gloves.

It’s a fitting image because the pugnacious Espada – his ringtone is "Eye of the Tiger," a song made famous in the "Rocky" films – literally fought his way into this office