"We set up a committee in our Bronx building to work with the police so they could do vertical patrols," she said.

The Bronx building is Mr. Blake's sole large work site at the moment.

The case, in 1977, involved the sale of a Bronx building to a federally financed drug rehabilitation program.

And even when more than 33,000 vacant units are in some stage of redevelopment, the Bronx buildings still stand out.

An apartment fire in a Bronx building early yesterday led to the discovery of 91 kilograms of cocaine, law enforcement officials said.

Workers in Bronx buildings are represented by another union.

The Bronx building is a new housing court.

Two Bronx buildings with available apartments both had great lobbies.

A handful of businesses, saying they cannot afford the rents at the Bronx building, have decided to close shop.

The other, in an overcrowded Bronx building that had been illegally carved into smaller apartments, killed two firefighters and left dozens of tenants homeless.