The old Fordham Library served our community for decades; its proposed conversion into a school would have served the community well as would a proposed community center. Changing a building constructed to serve community residents to sheltering animals is an insult to a neighborhood that has lacked social services and recreational space since the very first private homes and apartment buildings went up. From Fordham Road to 201st Street between Webster Avenue and the Grand Concourse, there is not one playground. An apt description of the city’s current response to the community’s need for the library building would be “the

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With global warming fast becoming a global priority, thanks to environmental crusaders like former Vice President Al Gore, the science community is enlisting amateurs to make its job easier. A new program at the New York Botanical Garden is offering volunteers a chance to study climate change while exploring its 50-acre natural forest.

A listing of arts and entertainment events for our readers in the northwest Bronx.

On a Friday last month, Microsoft executive John O’Sullivan led MS 80 as Principal for a Day for the sixth straight year. O’Sullivan not only got to be in charge again, he continued to learn more about the school and explored ways to improve it.

Bronxite and former Montefiore Medical Center physician Dr. Ira Greifer has worked for over 50 years to improve upon national and international efforts to help patients suffering from kidney disease.

A listing of community events, programs and services for our readers in the northwest Bronx.

Reversing a previous position, the members of a committee monitoring the construction of the filtration plant in Van Cortlandt Park have decided to open the meetings to the public.

Crime statistics remain down overall in the 52nd Precinct (Norwood, Bedford Park, University Heights and North Fordham), including a significant drop in murders and shootings. But violent incidents in perennial high-crime areas, serve as a reminder that the precinct’s hotspots are resilient and don’t always jibe with precinctwide statistics.

As the enormous water filtration plant project in Van Cortlandt Park moves farther away from the original plan outlined in 2003, the project’s monitoring committee, local activists and city planning experts say it’s becoming glaringly apparent that the plan didn’t account for significant impacts on the community.