Josefina felt overwhelmed as she and her taxi-driver husband struggled on his $20,000-a-year earnings to support their 4-year-old son and 3-month-old daughter.

“I was very sad,” said Josefina, 37. “I don’t have a lot of money. I’m not working now.”

Recently separated and already raising two children on a minimum-wage salary, Teresa, another Bronx mother, gave birth to a daughter in March.

Then came along a savior for both women: Baby Buggy, a charity started in 2001 by comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s wife, Jessica.

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Some Bronx teens spent Valentine’s Day learning a lesson in true love.

The Mayor’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence held a series of sessions last week, where 600 teens were taught how to treat loved ones properly and avoid abusive relationships.

On Valentine’s Day, a group of about 20 youths entered the Kingsbridge Heights Community Center skeptical, and left with a new perspective.

“I thought this was going to be boring, but I really learned,” said Anibal Oller, 14.

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The Wishing Well community garden in the South Bronx soon will install a new toilet friendly to the environment but with a twist - the waste will be composted, and will end up a few feet away in plant and vegetable beds tended by students from nearby Public School 333.

Not everyone is thrilled about the cutting-edge composting toilet planned for Rev. James A. Polite Ave.: One garden volunteer doesn’t want schoolchildren using “human manure” - and some scientists say the fertilizer could be deadly.

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A 14-car caravan of Barack Obama supporters cruised the streets of the Bronx and Upper Manhattan Sunday while blasting horns and Spanish reggaeton music through Hillary Clinton friendly Latino neighborhoods.

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A weekend trek to local eating spots in the Bronx found voters who debunk any notion that the borough’s residents are united on choosing their candidate.

Bronx voters are united, though, in their strong reactions to issues like immigration reform, health care coverage, labor reform and troop withdrawal. They are scrutinizing their choices to determine whom they can trust to do right by them.

See the faces and hear the voices of some of the folks who discussed politics over the weekend at the El Valle restaurant on Jerome Avenue, National Doughnut on Bedford Park Blvd., and Starbucks on W. 225th Street.

(Photos by Claudia Cruz)

Several South Bronx tenants say already-poor housing conditions have worsened since a group of private investors assumed control of their buildings nine months ago, even though the new buildings’ manager says a multi-million-dollar rehabilitation of the properties is underway.

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Barbara Darby stopped her shopping cart and stared at the price for a gallon of milk.

$4.79

“Milk is almost $5?” Ms. Darby, a senior citizen from Riverdale, asked incredulously.

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