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Stories by Edition: February 22, 2007 (6 Stories)

Fordham Hill Roiled by Security Controversy - Shareholders, property managers and a minority of the board of directors at the Fordham Hill Owners Corporation are outraged because they say a united majority (six out of nine) of board members are making sweeping changes to the co-operative housing complex without approval or even input from anyone but themselves. Some shareholders have even dubbed the majority group the "Fordham Hill Mafia." | Read the Story

PS 280 Principal Removed - Gary LaMotta, the longtime principal of PS/MS 280, one of the northwest Bronx and District 10's most successful schools, was reassigned on Feb. 5 to the Region One office pending an internal investigation. | Read the Story

Pols Reject Gag Order on Armory - A controversial confidentiality agreement is threatening to derail the selection process as New York City searches for a developer to renovate the Kingsbridge Armory in the northwest Bronx. | Read the Story

Allstate Looks at Bedford Park, Sees Coastline - John Reilly loves his home on 202nd Street near the Grand Concourse, the home his grandfather purchased that now houses a fourth generation of Reilly's. But while he never considered the house to be on beachfront property, his insurance company, Allstate, decided the home was too close to the Atlantic coast and for that reason would not renew his policy after over 20 years of coverage. | Read the Story

Fire Destroys 4 Stores on Kingsbridge Road - A fire broke out in a restaurant kitchen on Feb. 12, and by the time 168 firefighters tamed it two and a half hours later, a decade's worth of Kingsbridge Road businesses had gone up in smoke. | Read the Story

Armory Secrecy - When it comes to choosing a development proposal for the Kingsbridge Armory is the city interested in what the community thinks, or isn't it? | Read the Story