DeWitt Clinton junior Rifat Hussain dreamed about playing competitive cricket in the Bronx when his family left Bangladesh a year ago. He joined informal pickup games in the city parks with his friends.

Then, in early April, he got to put on a uniform and compete, when he and 16 of his classmates played their first match in the inaugural season of the Public School Athletic League’s (PSAL) new cricket league.

Seated in front of flags of the world in Lehman College’s old gym, Sir Brian Urquhart described the first meetings of the United Nations Security Council there in 1946 as “very exciting and disorganized.” “It was the first time we had done anything like that,” the former undersecretary general said. “There was universal enthusiasm…for the founding of an organization that everyone in the world wanted to succeed.” Urquhart and about 100 other former UN officials and staff reunited for a homecoming on May 21. The UN Security Council had met at the then-Bronx campus of Hunter College for five months,

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A 16-year-old Bronx high school student was reunited with her family last Thursday night after mysteriously disappearing for more than a week.

The New York Yankees baseball club and city officials are shortchanging residents on public parkland they promised to replace, and even expand, upon completing the new Yankee Stadium, charges a new report released last week by park advocates.

Once a proponent of going to war in Iraq, local Congressman Eliot Engel has done a complete 180 and recently voted to cut off funding for the very same war, now in its fifth year.

Dominican President Leonel Fernandez was re-elected to his third term in the country’s presidential election on May 16, boosted by New York voters.

The Bronx’s more than 1,700 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans will receive additional money for college as the House of Representatives provided $52 billion over 10 years yesterday in a new G.I. Bill.

Bronx Congressman Jose Serrano’s congressional resolution designating May 13 as Frank Sinatra Day passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 402-3 on May 20. The designation ties in with the release of postage stamps bearing Ol’ Blue Eyes’ face, commemorating the 10th anniversary of his death.

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