Issue in Bronx and Queens Olga Ortiz, who has lived in her Fordham neighborhood for nine years, said illegal dumpers seem to think they can act with impunity.

When Fordham and several other Westchester County towns were consolidated into the Bronx at the turn of the twentieth century, the village became the borough's Fordham neighborhood.

Officer Toro preferred working the overnight shift at the 46th Precinct, 1.32 square miles of gritty South Bronx real estate that includes the Mount Hope and Fordham neighborhoods.

"The fire brought back a lot of nostalgia," said Mr. Zaneri, 67, a retired New York City police officer who has lived in the Fordham neighborhood all his life.

His family then moved north, to the Fordham neighborhood, where he became fascinated by a small white house in a nearby park.

Ms. Tejada and Mr. Aquino lived in the apartment, on Webster Avenue in the Fordham neighborhood, with Ms. Tejada's son, her mother said yesterday.

The library is in the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx, overlooking the shopping strip along Fordham Road and facing old library on Bainbridge Avenue to the east.

The next patient is waiting, his ninth in a day that may include as many as 25 residents of the Fordham neighborhood in the Bronx served by Montefiore hospital's Family Health Center.

Four people were shot last night, one fatally, on a Bronx street, prompting an extensive manhunt for a gunman in the Fordham neighborhood, the police said.

Jamie, who is from the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx, described Dover as "the kind of place where no one bothers you, and there is no crime to worry about."