Golfers who use the driving range at Mosholu Golf Course will have to practice their swings elsewhere for the foreseeable future.

As Community Board 7 begins the process of rezoning Webster Avenue to allow for more residences, the corridor is on the verge of welcoming two new apartment buildings to the neighborhood.

The Webster Avenue corridor where the Doe Fund wants to build is currently zoned for heavy commercial use and is made up of mostly auto shops, gas stations and other industrial businesses.

A stretch of Bainbridge Avenue, a quiet residential street of quaint single-family homes and small apartment buildings just north of the bustling commerce and commotion of Fordham Road, has become a haven for squatters and late-night parties and a nightmare for local residents.

Mister Softee, beware. Starting this summer, the omnipresent jingle that means a roving ice cream truck is just around the corner will theoretically be heard less thanks to a new noise code, which took effect July 1. It specifically targets Mister Softee trucks, along with music blasters, barking dogs, and other chronic disturbances.

It would be easy to just credit the controversial filtration plant deal for the construction of the beautiful new Sachkerah Woods Playground in Van Cortlandt Park.

As we report in this issue, Community Board 7 has embarked on a process to hire a district manager. Community boards aren’t generally well known by community residents, but they should be because they essentially function as local branches of city government. The rap against them is they aren’t powerful because they mostly serve as an advisory body to City Hall and city agencies.

At the opening celebration of Sachkerah Woods, I mentioned to several people that there’s a new path leading into the park from Gates Place and Gun Hill Road – but no traffic light to make it safe to cross Gun Hill Road at Gates Place. One of the people I mentioned it to was Assemblyman Jeff Dinowitz. The very next day, in the mail, I received a copy of a letter Jeff Dinowitz wrote to Bronx DOT Commissioner Constance Moran, asking for a study to determine the need for a traffic light at this intersection. I want to publicly thank

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Sunday, July 8 at Oval Park, around 7:30 p.m. (I wasn’t really looking at the time, just trying to enjoy the hot evening with my kids), a fight erupted right in front of the park’s bathroom building.   A group of Mexican men, who constantly sit above the tunnel by the stone wall waiting and watching for trouble, came down the nearby stairs and attacked another young man who did not provoke the attack in any way. He was hit with punches and chains and left bleeding.   He stumbled into the building for assistance, where we assume the police

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