On Feb. 7, 2008, The Pinnacle Group, a real estate firm, added 10 Bronx buildings to their 420-building New York City portfolio. This was the most recent in a spate of Bronx property acquisitions by landlord groups backed by what tenants and organizers are calling "predatory equity."

The Bronx has the largest number of known public street locations for prostitution in the city, and yet according to the citywide arrest statistics they have the lowest number of arrests for this crime. The locations include: West Farms area and East Tremont Avenue, St. James Park, Hunts Points, Bronx Terminal Market, Jerome Avenue between […]

Bronx Congressman Eliot Engel said that President Bush condemned millions of American children to a tentative future by vetoing the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP).

Congressman Jose Serrano, a vocal opponent of the U.S. war in Iraq, saw a silver lining in the defeat of a resolution that called for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. The measure lost 171 to 255 but Serrano said the effort made an important statement nonetheless.

By next week, the city will owe the federal government over $1.5 million in fines because it has failed to award the contract for building the water filtration plant in the giant hole in Van Cortlandt Park.

Major construction on the controversial water filtration plant being built in Van Cortlandt Park, already two months behind schedule, ran into another major obstacle when the contractor for the project withdrew its $1.127 billion bid

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.

Region 1 Superintendent Irma Zardoya has a full plate. Two years ago she was plucked from her District 10 superintendent post to head one of the city's new regions, almost tripling the number of schools under her charge.

Region 1 was thrust into the limelight last month when its fourth graders registered the city's largest increase in state reading scores. Test results improved citywide, but local schools did especially well, many registering double digit improvements.