Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, usually an outspoken critic of the water filtration plant being built in Van Cortlandt Park, sat mostly silent during a meeting two weeks ago of the Croton Facility Monitoring Committee, which oversees the filter plant project.

Luke Nee, a native Bronxite who died in the Sept. 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks, symbolically returned home to North Fordham two weeks ago, his name memorialized on a street sign at the corner of Minerva Place and the Grand Concourse.

Three dozen faculty members rallied outside the Bronx Community College (BCC) campus last Tuesday, protesting compensation practices they feel have long shortchanged adjuncts throughout the City University of New York (CUNY) system.

By the day of the vote earlier this month, shareholders at the Fordham Hill Owner’s Cooperative were tired, but ready for change.

Lovey Mazique-Rivera, the principal of MS 80 in Norwood, worries about what happens to her impressionable middle schoolers once they leave the friendly confines of her newly-renovated building on Mosholu Parkway.

It’s like the start to a well-told joke. So, Ben Franklin, Malcom X and Pocahontas walk into a school cafeteria… But there’s no punch line this time, only a class of third graders putting history into action.

All year long, kids participating in an arts-focused after-school program at PS 56 have been sharpening their creative skills. Organized by the nonprofit Community Works, 42 students worked with artists after school on various projects.

There’s a new precinct commander at the Five-Two, as there is at every precinct in the city every two or three years. So, community residents that attend community meetings are accustomed to seeing a new face more often then they’d probably like.

As part of the 52nd Precinct’s new crackdown on quality of life offenses, police officials want to make it plain that graffiti won’t be tolerated. Last month, the precinct instituted its new "quality of life" initiative, which will now be called the Conditions Unit and will be dedicated to stopping graffiti, excessive noise and public drinking.