Out & About: Westchester Square Gears Up for Fair @ The Square

Editor’s Pick Annual Fair at Westchester Square The Westchester Square Merchants Association presents its free 7th annual Fair @ the Square, June 20 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (rain or shine) along the streets of Westchester Square between St. Raymond and Westchester avenues. Events include an all-day concert series featuring a variety of music with host and performers, plus both an adult and kid Elvis impersonator. Also featured will be art, an MTA antique bus, a kids’ activity area offering face painting and arts and crafts, an FDNY smokehouse and antique fire engine, rock wall, games, exhibits and other

By DAVID CRUZ & BOB KAPPSTATTER The 52nd Precinct is set to get a new batch of officers amid efforts to curb a rising gang problem west of Bedford Park.

Latest Edition of the Norwood News Is Out!

By DAVID CRUZ The Norwood News is once again out with a new edition available online and across the northwest Bronx and filled with plenty of community news you can use! We begin with a micro-local story that can play out anywhere–the “in-stall-ation” of speed hump on a street that’s at both a Neighborhood Slow Zone and school zone. Neighbors are in an uproar over a year-long delay, especially after a vehicle recently plowed in three parked cars before turning over. Find out what the commotion is about. We also delve into the existing rent protection laws that are slated to

FEGS’ Bronx Programs Transferred to The Jewish Board

By VIVIAN CARTER Federation Employment & Guidance Services (FEGS) of Norwood, now bankrupt, will keep its social services programs going, after transferring them to the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services for $75 million. New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH), primary provider of licenses and contracts for the programs, authorized the transfer. The Jewish Board, in existence for more than 140 years, currently helps over 5,880 clients in the Bronx (and 35,000 citywide) to live as independently as possible, through care management services, mental health clinics, preventive services, emergency shelter for survivors of domestic violence, supportive housing, apartment

Here she comes…Miss USA, Nia Sanchez.

Speed Hump Stall on Hull Avenue

By DAVID CRUZ Though the city Department of Transportation says its committed to installing a speed hump at a Norwood street where a driver lost control and slammed into three parked cars before turning over recently, just when it will be installed is another matter.

Rent Laws: What You Should Know

By TATYANA TURNER and JASMINE GOMEZ With current rent protection laws set to expire June 15, the debate over whether the laws should be renewed or strengthened has intensified in Albany, where the legislature is charged with drafting the rent laws. Tenants and Democratic elected officials are advocating to close loopholes in the current rent laws while calling for more housing options for the working and middle class. In the last few months, workshops by Bronx elected officials have sounded the alarm in making sure tenants know their rights. With rent laws edging toward expiration, the Norwood News explored

By JASMINE GOMEZ Councilman Andy King held his annual Gun Violence Rally outside the Evander Childs Campus on June 2 at a time when the northwest Bronx has seen a spike in shootings.

Hit-and-Run Driver Surrenders in Concourse Crash; Victim Behind ’91 Subway Crash

By DAVID GREENE The driver who had been sought by the NYPD for mowing down a pedestrian along the Grand Concourse surrendered to police as his victim remains in serious but stable condition at St. Barnabas Hospital, according to police.