The Norwood News got its wish (“Not So Fast,” June 28-July 11, 2007 editorial) with the agreement on congestion pricing negotiated on July 19. Before any tolls can be imposed, congestion pricing will be studied by a 17-person commission and its recommendations must be approved first by the New York City Council and then by the state legislature. This provides a golden opportunity to refine the current congestion pricing plan and to make it fair to the entire city.

Blink and you’ve missed him. Herman Tannenbaum is always on the move. He pauses for a lunchtime refuel, but then it’s back to business for Tannenbaum, who designs and produces original greeting cards.

PS 94 will be getting an Early Childhood Development Center to be located on the school’s campus, where portable classrooms currently sit. Although the project is still in the early stages of development, the building is currently slated to be three stories, house Pre-K through third graders and accommodate 428 seats.

Less than two days after a Norwood News article highlighted an illegal club and drug depot being run out of a North Fordham area home, police raided the place and confirmed all the neighbors’ suspicions.

The Bronx Arts Ensemble presents several free concerts Two Irish Tenors, Michael Brown and Neil Farrell, perform on July 29, Romantic Winds, featuring classical music on Aug. 5, and Music of the Big Band Era on Aug. 12. Each program will be performed at 2 p.m. at Rockwood Drive Circle, Van Cortlandt Park near Mosholu Avenue and Broadway and at 4 p.m. at McGinley Center, Fordham University, Bronx Rose Hill Campus at Southern Boulevard. For more information, call (718) 601-7399.

The Bronx Culture Trolley, a replica of a 20th-century trolley, transports visitors to Bronx venues of arts and culture on the first Wednesday of every month for free.

Police have stepped up surveillance and residents are taking precautions after a string of violent attacks last month in the vicinity of Kingsbridge Road and Morris Avenue that left one man dead and five others hospitalized.

With giggling, running children as a backdrop, as well as a crane hovering nearby over the mammoth crater that will eventually host a water filtration plant, the city cut the ribbon on a new playground for the southeast corner of Van Cortlandt Park on June 28.

Australian media titan Rupert Murdoch’s company News Corp., which specializes in tabloid-style journalism and produces the New York Post, officially announced the purchase of the Bronx Times Reporter and the Bronx Times papers last week.