Parents, students, teachers and administrators, including many from the northwest Bronx, crowded sidewalks near City Hall on March 19 to protest proposed cuts to the city’s education budget.

A guide to entertainment and community events in the northwest Bronx.

A guide to community programs and services in the northwest Bronx.

When his Humvee struck a roadside bomb in Iraq three years ago, life for Private Roberto Reyes, Jr. – a local Bronx boy from Mosholu Parkway – would never be the same. But thanks to some unlikely collaborators, Reyes, Jr. and other disabled vets may soon receive some help in the healing process.

At a school with a two-year athletic program, it can be difficult to put a winning basketball team on the court year after year. The Monroe College Lady Mustangs don’t seem to be having a problem. On Saturday night, March 15, the team took home the winning trophy for the National Junior College Athletic Association National Championship.

Several hundred tenants, activists, and city officials gathered on the steps of City Hall on March 13 to celebrate the enactment of a new law that gives tenants the right to take their landlord to court for harassment.

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, along with a number of city and state legislators, is supporting an alternative to Mayor Bloomberg’s Congestion Pricing Plan. Under this alternate plan, which is headed by Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, the burden for reducing congestion would be moved off regular motorists commuting to Manhattan and placed onto cab and limousine riders.

Congressman Eliot Engel is supporting the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008. The legislation seeks to curtail nearly $18 billion in tax subsidies for oil companies, and reallocate them for renewable energy and energy efficiency programs.

Public and community meetings in the northwest Bronx.