Police want guns off the street and they’re willing to pay for them. As part of a citywide NYPD initiative, Bronxites can surrender an operable gun and receive a $200 bank card, Saturday, April 25 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at two local churches.

A man stabbed to death on March 29 on Marion Avenue in North Fordham has been identified by a relative as Solomon Legend Tabar, 31, of the Dominican Republic.

So confident in his ability to win the special election for borough president on April 21 is Assemblyman Ruben Diaz Jr. that he’s even announced his future deputy borough president, longtime Bronx politician and Assemblywoman Aurelia Greene, who accepted the offer.

The city is looking to hear from the community about the possibility of putting a new school at 3177 Webster Ave.

The Kingsbridge Armory Task Force is set to meet on April 24. What will the topic of discussion be? Depends on who you ask: the city or community groups.

A listing of public and community meetings in the northwest Bronx.

Two issues ago, we complained about not being able to get the New York City Police Department to release to us neighborhood-by-neighborhood statistics (the precinct is divided into lettered sectors).

Soon after that, the NYPD complied with our Freedom of Information Law request, which we appreciate. In our last issue, we published the sector maps including how many incidences of each crime category (homicides, rapes, auto theft, robberies, etc.) there were in each sector in 2008. (We failed to note that the source of the statistics, from which we created the maps, was the NYPD.)

If discussion on our blog (bronxnewsnetwork.org) is any indication, this is the type of information that many residents find useful. Knowing that crime of a particular kind, or crime in general, is up or down precinct-wide is much less useful than knowing what the trend is in your neighborhood.

Currently, Amalgamated cooperators are preparing to elect new directors and vote on proposed bylaw amendments on May 8. One of the amendments is quite simple.