An enduring neighborhood mystery was partially solved in 2007. The bones of Florence Bock, a woman in her 80s who lived at 3280 Perry Ave. were discovered in her home when workers were cleaning out the house for a new owner.
Local groups staged not one, not two, but three spirited rallies last summer in front of the vacant Fordham Library building in the northwest Bronx demanding the building be turned over to the community.
This fall, when northwest Bronx homeowners began losing their homes at an increasingly high rate to foreclosure, housing advocates pointed to a half decade of subprime lending practices, which left borrowers with high monthly payments they simply couldn’t keep up with.
Last winter, the Norwood News reported that a majority among the Fordham Hill Owners Cooperative’s Board of Directors had begun making a string of sweeping changes at the high-end University Heights housing cooperative.
The construction of a new track and field at Williamsbridge Oval Park in Norwood and three new synthetic ball fields at Harris Park in Bedford Park has heated up a debate among local residents about which surface – grass or synthetic turf – is better and safer for city parks.
For more than a month late this past summer, there was a makeshift memorial outside of the Norwood apartment building where a mother mourned the loss of five of her six children who died together in a horrific Virginia car crash.
In early January of 2007, Dr. Leandro Lozado, who ran a pediatric health clinic on Kingsbridge Road, was found murdered in his Westchester County home with several bullet wounds, including two to the head.
The kind of violence associated with summer in the city didn’t wait for the official beginning of the season. In May, four young Ghanaian American men were shot outside of the Tracey Towers apartment complex early on a Friday night.
