After nearly three years of debate and delay, a Comfort Inn is slowly rising on Webster Avenue. But the project is once again on hold because of a partial stop-work order due to unapproved steel work and a fight with neighbors over property boundaries.

Last week, it appeared, for all intents and purposes, the Bronx found a replacement for now-departed former borough president Adolfo Carrion, who took a job with the Obama administration in February. One by one, potential Democratic rivals to Assemblyman Ruben Diaz, Jr.’s run at the borough presidency fell by the wayside.

On Tuesday, the State Senate’s Democratic majority leadership released its plan to save mass transit riders from massive service cuts and fare hikes. Later Tuesday, Gov. David Paterson rejected the plan.

More than two months into his latest term in the state Senate, Pedro Espada, Jr. says he’s finally found a home for his district office.

A listing of community and public meetings in the northwest Bronx, mostly Community District 7.

For weeks, a poster on the white tiled wall inside the 205th Street D train station has asked for information regarding the mysterious death of a 48-year-old man named Sangh Shingeia.

Robberies have surged in the 52nd Precinct in 2009 compared to the same time period a year ago. There have been 114 robberies so far this year, compared to just 74 at this point last year.

Only eight months after investing in a portfolio of two dozen rent-regulated Bronx properties, a private equity fund known as Hudson Realty Capital is now putting several of the buildings, including 1985-1995 Botanical Square South in Bedford Park, up for sale at prices significantly below what it paid for them.

Rising above East 211th Street on the grounds of PS 94 in Norwood, the iron skeleton of a new school building takes shape. As it progresses, the three-story edifice holds the promise of accommodating 490 new school seats.

But it remains unclear which students will occupy those seats and how much the new building will help alleviate overcrowding in District 10.