Supporters of Gary Axelbank’s public affairs talk show on BRONXNET, the borough’s public access television network, put on a show of their own last week. With cardboard signs hanging around their necks, they marched from Kingsbridge Road and filed into the station’s studio on the Lehman College campus to protest BronxTalk AM’s cancellation on the day of its final broadcast.

Subway renovations along the No. 4 line and some controversial developments projects were discussed at the Community Board 7 (CB7) District Service Cabinet meeting last week. Agency representatives gave local updates and statistics during the session, which takes place every other month.

Tenants in Pinnacle buildings from three northern Manhattan community boards gathered for a joint public hearing Monday night. It was the culmination of months of activism by tenants fed up with rent increases based on falsified repair reports, unlawful rent increases and baseless legal actions.

Foreclosures in the Bronx are on the rise. Many of the factors that contribute to these foreclosures are also increasing (i.e. interest rates, fuel prices, water and sewer costs, property taxes, sub-prime and predatory lending, and the age of the local housing stock). In 2004, the foreclosure rate for one to four-family homes in Bronx Community Boards 5, 6, and 7 was double that of the city.

In the largest turnout since launching their annual fund-raising gala four years ago, 280 friends and supporters of the Mosholu Montefiore Community Center packed the Faculty Dining Room at Lehman College last week for the event known as "Bursting With Pride."

A shift in an obscure funding line has left the Bedford Park Senior Center struggling to stay afloat. The center lost approximately a third of its budget last July when a city contract for community programs was shifted away from senior services. Most of the $530,000 destined for programs serving the Community District 7 area went to youth initiatives. The Center’s long-standing homebound senior program was abruptly terminated as a result.

Two banks that loan to some of the city’s worst landlords have partnered with a tenants’ advocacy coalition to ensure that the slumlords clean up their acts.

A developer is considering building a hotel on Webster Avenue near PS/MS 20, though not in the location previously reported in the Norwood News.

Five years after it was first funded, a complete transformation of the Williamsbridge Oval’s northern entrance was officially unveiled last week.