Following its first-ever graduation ceremony in late June, the Bronx Aerospace Academy, a small military-style high school on the Evander Childs campus, found itself as the poster child for New York City’s education reform plan – a thriving, small, themed, public school, with a low-income minority population, that is taking full advantage of private partnerships.

Though it was slated to be released Sept. 18, the Kingsbridge Armory Request for Proposals, or RFP, has been delayed again as the Economic Development Corporation (EDC) continues to work on language for the project’s design guidelines.

Wilburn, 28, and his buddies, brothers Aniayah and Yeshai Lewi, are drummers with The United Drummers of Israel, a group the dreadlocked Wilburnhelped found. While they occasionally gig at clubs in Manhattan and Queens, subway cars are often their venues, and straphangers their audience.

Spencer Foreman, MD, became a legend in his own time on Sunday, Sept. 17, when Montefiore Medical Center, the massive Bronx hospital he leads, renamed a newly renovated building after him.

This editorial is about one of those chronic neighborhood injustices that drives us nuts. We’ve written about it before and we’ll write about it again. In doing so, maybe we can collectively figure out how to address it. As many of our readers know, we (Mosholu Presevation Corporation, the nonprofit that publishes this paper) have been working on beautification efforts for a long time. So have lots of other people. The Jerome-Gun Hill BID, the new Fordham BID, Montefiore, local elected officials, businesses and citizens spend lots of time cleaning up litter and graffiti and trying to make this area nicer and more attractive.

On the first day of school on Sept. 5 in Norwood, PS 94 Principal Diane Daprocida laid down the law for a few boisterous, wayward students wandering the halls. "Where do you think you’re going?" she asked a sheepish youngster who promptly started walking slower and with purpose.

If State Senator Efrain Gonzalez is found to have defrauded the West Bronx Neighborhood Association, as a recent indictment alleges, he didn’t have to go very far to do it. In July, Gonzalez sat down for an interview with the Norwood News in a virtually empty two-room suite on the same floor of his district office on the Grand Concourse. Paintings of him as a stately, younger, slimmer lawmaker adorn the wall along with framed logos of his Dominican cigar company.

Democratic anti-war candidate Jessica Flagg is dead broke. She has no job. Four months ago, she was almost kicked out of her Riverdale apartment. She’s borrowing money from her family just to survive and keep her shoestring Congressional campaign afloat.

Local residents and activists are still keeping their fingers crossed that the city will soon release a request for proposals (RFP) for the Kingsbridge Armory. The RFP will give potential developers design guidelines to use when creating their visions for the Armory.