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Bronx Community Board meetings

Community Boards are the little City Halls of the city, dealing with local issues involving city agencies, and serving an advisory role in zoning and other land-use issues.

COMMUNITY BOARD 1 (Melrose, Mott Haven) meets at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 28, at Lincoln Hospital, Conference Room 6, 234 Morris Ave., at E. 149th St. Call (718) 585-7117.

COMMUNITY BOARD 2 (Longwood, Hunts Point) meets at 6 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 27, at Thessalonia Baptist Church, 941 Rev. James A. Polite Ave. Call (718) 328-9125.

COMMUNITY BOARD 4 (Highbridge, Mount Eden and Concourse) meets at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 26, at Bronx Lebanon Hospital, Murray Cohen Auditorium, 1650 Grand Concourse. Call (718) 299-0800.

COMMUNITY BOARD 5 (Morris Heights, Fordham, Bathgate and Mount Hope) meets at 6 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 27, at St. Simon Stock School, 2195 Valentine Ave. Call (718) 364-2030.

COMMUNITY BOARD 7 (Norwood, Jerome Park, Kingsbridge Heights and University Heights) meets at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 19, at Bronx Library Center, 310 E. Kingsbridge Road. Call (718) 933-5650.

COMMUNITY BOARD 9 (Soundview, Clasons Point, Parkchester, Bruckner and Harding Park) meets at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 21, at CB9 Office, 1967 Turnbull Ave. Call (718) 823-3034.

COMMUNITY BOARD 10 (Throgs Neck, City Island, Pelham Bay, Co-op City, Zerega, Westchester Square, Country Club and Edgewater) meets at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 21, at Dreiser Loop Community Center, 177 Dreiser Loop, Room 2, second floor. Call (718) 892-1161.

SOURCE: NYDailyNews.com

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 Adrian Benepe

Greener Ways As Path For Bronx Under Mayor’s Plan

We are currently in the largest period of park expansion since Robert Moses and the WPA projects of the 1930s.

With a capital budget of $2.9 billion over the next 10 years, we are building innovative parks and facilities across the city on an unprecedented scale. From the concrete plants and brownfields that once lined the Bronx waterfront to the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, we are transforming the city with waterfront parks, kayak launches, bike trails, athletic fields, playgrounds and natural areas.

Thanks to the support of Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council, we will care for parks with a robust operating budget of almost $380 million, up from $180 million in 2000.

In the Bronx, new and renovated parks are transforming communities and improving the quality of life. Just in the last five years, more than $158 million has been invested in Bronx park improvements, including new waterfront parks, greenways and recreational facilities.

Over the next five years, Parks will invest more than $600 million to develop park projects in the Bronx, including completing long-unfinished Soundview Park and restoring the High Bridge to create the Bronx’s next great regional parks as part of Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC, a sweeping road map to the sustainable growth of New York City.

Some $220 million comes from the construction of the Croton Water Filtration Plant and is being spent on improvements to over 70 Bronx parks, with 13 complete, 19 in construction and 43 projects currently in design.

Ongoing projects include Seton Falls Park, Mount Hope Playground, Manida Ballfield, Clark Playground, Devoe Park and Aqueduct Lands Playground, and we expect to begin construction on all the remaining park projects before the fall of 2009.

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Snow leopard mom (left) looks like she may be choosing a mate for her son (right).

Squirrel monkeys (left) make it their business to smooch and generally monkey around.

Valentine Lovin’ Going On At The Bronx Zoo

To paraphrase Cole Porter:

“Birds do it, bees do it, even animals at the Bronx Zoo do it, Let’s do it, let’s fall in love.”

Old Cole even threw in chimpanzees, bears, giraffes, centipedes and sloths doing it — most of whom you’ll find at the zoo.

And since Valentine’s Day is this week (Thursday — so get to the florist or candy store NOW, pal!), we thought we’d cutesy up this week’s photo spread with some adorable animals at the zoo, run by the folk at the Wildlife Conservation Society, who view breeding as the important part of the love game.

Nevertheless, love is in the air and in the lair this season.

Snow leopard Leo, recently arrived from Pakistan, has been rubbin’ fur with Shelby, a Bronx-born female, though it’s still just puppy love.

Another romance is starting to heat up with male lion M’wasi and female Sukari, recently introduced to the zoo’s Africa Plains. A typical lion, er, “greeting,” is quick, lasting less than a minute and includes touching heads. Hey, where’s the romance in that?

And many human couples consider the Bronx Zoo one of the city’s most romantic places. Take, for example, Eugene Sautner, who proposed there in 1957 to his future wife Mary Jane. They’re welcome back any time, since one of their three sons, Stephen, is now working in the Wildlife Conservation Society’s press office there. Ah, love!

SOURCE: NYDailyNews.com

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