A reader called to tell us about a beautiful garden taking root at Botanical Square, the large apartment complex on Webster Avenue just south of Mosholu Parkway.

There was a lot of good feeling in July, when practically every local lawmaker showed up to escort Governor Pataki on a tour of the Kingsbridge Armory.

In an effort to raise awareness about domestic violence, victims – and friends and family – gathered in Fordham Plaza on Oct. 6 to metaphorically air their "dirty laundry."

The staff at Lehman College’s Institute for Literacy Studies had no idea that Christopher Perkins, the quiet guy who had worked there for a decade, was such a talented writer. They figured it out when he left.

Various stories, including: Bronx Boom or Bust, Ballot Initiatives, Senior Funding, Comings and Goings, Making Law, and Focus on Chocolate.

Mark your calendars. The memory-drenched Loew’s Paradise Theatre on the Grand Concourse will reopen in style on Oct. 29 with a gala concert featuring Puerto Rican music star Gilberto Santo Rosa.

The great Bronx radio tower tiff is history. Eleven years after the construction of a mammoth antenna for the WFUV radio station on the Fordham University campus enraged its neighbors at the New York Botanical Garden, officials from both institutions and Montefiore Medical Center watched the biggest crane in New York City hoist a new tower and antenna atop a Montefiore-owned apartment building in Norwood.

Various stories, including: Chavez Falls for The Bronx, Unsafe School Crossing, More Buses, Comings and Goings, and Making Law.

The blue, round coastal evacuation route signs that first started cropping up in the area more than a year ago may come in handy sooner than you think.