Students and teachers at an East Tremont program for high school dropouts rejoiced on the last day of classes after learning their school, slated to close after graduation, would stay open for another year.

On a recent Sunday morning, the Williamsbridge Oval Park Recreation Center looked like the victim of a hurricane spewing brightly-colored paint. The previous night, someone, or some people, had broken into the Center and completely trashed the place.

Two years in the making, a new farmers market opened in Norwood on July 9.

Pedestrians and commuters will find fresh produce and baked goods every Wednesday at the southwest corner of West Mosholu Parkway North and Jerome Avenue through mid-November.

State lawmakers and fiscal watchdog groups booed the lack of transparency in the New York Yankees’ recent request for nearly half a billion dollars in additional public funding for the construction of the new Yankee Stadium.

Despite economic worries, every New York City school will start the 2008-2009 school year with at least as much funding as last year.

Andre Davidson, Jr., a former basketball star at John F. Kennedy High School, died Saturday doing what he loved.

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

The new Select Bus Service Bx12 bus with the blue flashing lights, teal wave and polka dot seats pulled into Nadine Evans’ bus stop on Pelham Parkway.

A transit worker showed her how to dip her MetroCard in a fare collecting machine at the bus stop, and she boarded with the receipt. After getting off on Fordham Road at the Grand Concourse, the 25-year-old Pelham Bay resident argued with her friends over the new "bus rapid transit" line.

At a recent meeting of the 52nd Precinct Community Council, Deputy Inspector James Alles, the Precinct’s commanding officer, announced that, unlike the rest of New York City, crime is down in the Five-Two in the first half of 2008.