Legislation co-sponsored by Congressman Eliot Engel to monitor the safety of drugs after they are on the market passed the House on Wednesday, July 11.

Council Member Oliver Koppell announced a new district-wide graffiti removal program on Tuesday, July 10, which will be funded with his discretionary Council allotment.

A one-time supporter of the Iraq war, Congressman Engel has since realized, "Young American service personnel cannot solve the problem of Iraq."

New York City’s sewage system dumps billions of gallons of untreated wastewater into Bronx waterways each year, according to an investigative report released earlier this week by City Limits Investigates.

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, an outspoken critic of the Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) mishandling of the vastly over-budget Croton Water Filtration Plant project in Van Cortlandt Park, is waiting for someone to prove him wrong.

Serge Marshall Davis has always worked in schools in far-flung neighborhoods, from South Shore High School in Brooklyn to Springfield Gardens, Queens, so the northern end of the Bronx seems like a logical next location for him.

The Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organized Acts of 1970, otherwise known as RICO laws, were designed to bring down organized crime syndicates like the mafia. Now, the laws that took down New York mob boss Frank "Funzi" Tieri in 1980 is being used by a tenants association to file federal charges against controversial landlords, the Pinnacle Group, for fraud, harassment, exorbitant rent inflation and illegal evictions.

A group of restaurant workers showed up at Councilman Joel Rivera’s office last week to urge him to hold a hearing on a bill that would help protect restaurant workers from abuses in the workplace.

At the 2007 Annual Harmony Day Picnic at Harris Field in Bedford Park on Tuesday, a child was the price of admission. More than 5,000 kids turned out to this year’s event, which was organized by the 41st Precinct Community Council. It was their last at Harris Field because the park will be under construction next year.