Recently, two local Bronx politicians took the opportunity to address the impact of Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC congestion pricing plan on Bronx residents and suggest possible mitigation efforts.

Bronx Assemblyman Jeffery Dinowitz (81st District) recently requested that the president of Hostos Community College in the south Bronx remove the college’s course on graffiti from its curriculum.

A guide to upcoming community and public meetings in the northwest Bronx.

Bronx State Senator Efrain Gonzalez’s federal trial for corruption and fraud charges has been postponed until late April 2008 at the earliest, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, which is prosecuting the case.

To the relief of local northwest Bronx residents, the regular southbound subway service of the Jerome Avenue No. 4 train at the Mosholu Parkway station reopened ahead of schedule on Friday, Nov. 9.

Local residents can voice their opinions about the current state of healthcare at a Health Forum on Thursday, Nov. 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the Mosholu Montefiore Community Center on 3450 DeKalb Ave.

Students are no longer the only ones receiving report cards. Now schools are being graded as well and not everyone is happy with the scoring system.

In September, Gov. Eliot Spitzer delivered on a campaign promise, putting forth a plan that would allow undocumented immigrants to get the same driver’s license as everybody else. But after anti-immigrant groups and politicians railed against the plan, Spitzer backed off and changed the plan dramatically – to the chagrin of New York’s strong and vocal immigrant population. Locals here in the northwest Bronx panned the plan as well.

Lynn Ferst-Valentin has walked her dog, Duke, in St. James Park in North Fordham every day for more than 11 years. "When we first moved here, it was just dirt, there was nothing here," she said. Now the park is finally getting a much-needed facelift.