The city is ramping up an effort to reach out to some 100,000 Bronx households that might be eligible but are not currently enrolled in the city’s food stamps program.

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

Two construction workers narrowly avoided death after a large panel of bricks unexpectedly ripped off the side of a Montefiore Medical Center research building earlier this morning, knocking them off their scaffolding rig.

Both workers were taken to the nearby emergency room, but they sustained only minor injuries.

A listing of programs, services and events for our Bronx readers.

“Push your body as far as it can go,” read the text message from personal trainer Jessica Garcia’s father. This was just one of the countless calls and text messages from friends, teachers and family members that the Bronx native and “American Gladiators” challenger has received the week before her upcoming debut on Monday night’s show.

More than 700 Bronxites rallied two weeks ago for government-aided relief from the home foreclosure crisis sweeping the Bronx and the entire country.

The areas of Fordham and University Heights have the highest per-capita rate of foreclosures in the city. Nationwide, nearly 8,000 people are filing for foreclosure each day, and statewide, one in 32 homeowners is projected to face foreclosure in the next few years

For one afternoon last Friday, MS 391 briefly turned into a factory of activism. Its products: T-shirts, visors, mugs and posters, with poignant messages about domestic abuse, staying in school, the environment, and other issues. Students worked in groups outside the school, cheerily painting and gluing as music blared throughout the premises.

As a group of about a dozen people gathered together for a photo at the local community board office on a sweltering Monday afternoon, Jesse Masyr, who has represented Kingsbridge Armory developer Related Companies for 25 years, looked slightly uncomfortable.

An off-duty cop shot and killed a man trying to rob his wife, who may have been harboring $20,000 in illegal lottery winnings. Police and the Bronx DA are continuing their investigation into the circumstances surrounding the shooting incident.