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.

It would have been hard to miss the excitement at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts last week, when the Bronx’s newest borough president took the oath of office.

The place was packed, possibly rivaling the venue’s gate for music legends B.B. King and Ray Charles. It was the middle of the day, too, and busy Bronx leaders from across the professional spectrum took time out of their schedules to be there. Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Paterson even slipped away from their intertwined budget crises to attend.

Why the buzz?

Diaz, Jr. is only 36, and he was elected to the Assembly on his own steam (his father, a state senator was elected after his son) when he was 23. People seem to like him. And, unlike his predecessor Adolfo Carrion, he seems to have a genuine affinity for the grassroots organizations that have powered the borough’s remarkable turnaround.

Diaz also succeeded in becoming borough president by participating in a rare and risky takeover of the Bronx Democratic Party. Diaz and his allies – a diverse group of elected officials from around the borough – won because they out-organized the entrenched incumbent leadership.

So, the 13th borough president would appear to have the wind at his back.

But he would do well to watch where he steps, too. The Bronx political landscape is littered with betrayals of the public trust.

The Mosholu Montefiore Community Center, the social and recreational hub for youth, adults and seniors in Norwood, celebrated its 50th anniversary with a gala dinner at Lehman College on May 12.

The newly opened Women’s Center at A&O Surgical Supply on East Gun Hill Road at Putnam Place is unique in the Bronx – it is the only store in the borough that caters solely to women with breast cancer.

Over one hundred people came out to Williamsbridge Oval as part of Norwood’s celebration of NYC’s “It’s My Park Day!” event, Saturday, May 16.