A listing of public and community meetings for our readers in the northwest Bronx, mostly in Community District 7.
Last winter, when times got tough for the oldest, most influential grassroots organizing group in the northwest Bronx – a financial crisis compounded by a leadership void – they looked within for a path forward.
In the span of eight days, two teenage females were grabbed off the street, dragged into an abandoned building and sexually assaulted near the corner of Grand Avenue and Kingsbridge Road.

Police say in both cases it was the work of one sexual predator. Last Thursday, police arrested Stephen Robinson, 48 and charged him with rape, criminal sex acts, sexual abuse and kidnapping.
Police have now confirmed that a young man was indeed shot on Saturday, May 9, while walking along East 203rd Street from the Grand Concourse toward Valentine Avenue.
Police have shut down the Webster Avenue bar Tequila Song after a string of violent incidents and the discovery that many of the establishment’s customers were under age.
Police say they will be increasing patrols and surveillance at Williamsbridge Oval Park, which they say has become a favorite target of local vandals.
There has been a series of cell phone snatching incidents on the the 4 and D train lines throughout the Bronx over the last month.
It isn’t very often that the real estate market sees a convergence of three great conditions that make for a true buyers’ market: low interest rates, government incentives and plenty of housing stock.  So where are all the buyers in the Bronx? “It’s slow,” said Avi Kahn, a broker with Sherry and Sons who deals primarily with co-op sales and rentals, about the buying market. “And the few things that are moving are hard to close because of the banks.” With the financial collapse that began last spring, and the stunning realization that most banks counted among their assets billions


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Members of the Teens With Dreams program at St. Brendan’s Church showed their devotion to their neighborhood when they hit the streets at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 16 to clean graffiti and grime in the area surrounding the church.