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This week we asked readers their New Year’s resolutions and hopes and wishes for 2017. I’m trying to quit smoking and make more money, if I can find a better job. I signed up with the Emergency Response Team for the snow removal with the Department of Sanitation and that pays $18 an hour. I hope that the situation with global warming gets resolved, because this weather we’ve been having is crazy. It’s cold when it should be hot and hot when it should be cold. George Morales Morris Park My hopes for 2017 is to do better than I

The Norwood News took a look back at 2016’s first editorial, “Welcoming 2016 With Predictions on New Round of Stories,” which forecasted stories for the next 12 months. With that, we look back on these predictions and what really happened: Securing the Oval: 2015 saw more and more police making arrests at Williamsbridge Oval Park, a park frequented by hundreds daily. Fires tormented police for months, but have since subsided. That’s a good thing. Safeguarding the park, a key source of entertainment for a largely working class community, is critical. If a populace fears a park, it will only signal

By BEN ST. CLAIR

In September, while other Fordham University students finished class or relaxed before a Friday night out, sophomore Olivia Greenspan headed to the garden. Tucked away behind Fordham’s Faculty Memorial Hall and the building housing Fordham University Press, the garden is a far cry from the New York Botanical Garden across the street. But to her and many others who spend time there, this garden — St. Rose’s Garden — is one of the university’s hidden gems. Many students are not aware of the garden’s eight beds and numerous kiddie pools filled with soil. Despite the colorful sign on the fence

By DANIELA BEASLEY

Tenants are displaced by landlords using unsavory and sometimes illegal tactics all over the Bronx, oftentimes because the tenants are unaware of the value in having concrete lease agreements when renting an apartment. But in other cases, a change in management of a building leaves the new landlord cleaning up the messes of the previous one. In the case of Rebecca Smith, Paula Matheson, and Haskell Shabi neither the tenant nor landlord regulations could rectify their situation and ended in two evictions and an investment turned into a money pit. The property, 3176 Bainbridge Ave., was once owned by Benedict

By DAVID CRUZ

A radio personality known on the Howard Stern talk show as the edgy Joey Boots died mysteriously in his Bedford Park home, according to police. Boots, real name Joseph Bassolino, 49, was found unconscious in his home on Grand Concourse by Bedford Park Boulevard late Friday Dec. 23. Bassolino was regarded as one of Stern’s Wack Packers, which often performed edgy albeit obnoxious bits on unsuspecting people. Bassolino was known for the phrase “Baba Booey” during radio bits. “Tribute to the one and only Joey B in the new year. He will be missed. #BabaooeyHowardSternpenis,” Howard Stern had tweeted on

Tax Preparers Registration The 2017 tax preparer online registration is available on the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance website, www.tax.ny.gov. Prpearers who are paid to prepare at least one tax return in a year must be at least 18 years old, take four hours of annual continuing education and take a 16-hour basic tax course for those who’ve been professionally preparing taxes for less than three years. For more information, log on to www.tax.ny.gov. Free Composting Repurpose food by bringing it to Lehman College’s Food Scrap Drop Off location Monday mornings from 8 to 10 a.m. when

Editor’s Pick More Holiday Events The Van Cortlandt Jewish Center, 3880 Sedgwick Ave., presents free Chanukah Celebration, Dec. 27 at 7:15 p.m. featuring pianist, latkes and jelly donuts, a raffle for adults and games and prizes for children. For more information, call (718) 884-6105. The public is invited to a free Parkchester Annual Kwanzaa Celebration, Dec. 30 from 4 to 9 p.m. at St. Helena’s Church, 1315 Olmstead Ave. Free food will be served. Please bring handcraft or educational children’s gifts and games (books or toys). For more information, call (718) 409-5253 or (347) 525-4943. Events The

By DEBORAH CRUZ

A group of business owners gathered in front of Capitol Diner on Kingsbridge Road and Jerome Avenue, to discuss an ongoing heat issues involving six businesses on West Kingsbridge Road. The conversation soon went around the corner, to Com Tam Ninh Kiev, a local Vietnamese eatery also dealing with a landlord issue. The meeting was organized by the Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition, where organizers brought Brooklyn Councilman Robert Cornegy Jr., into the conversation. It made sense. Though from Brooklyn, Cornegy is chair of the Small Business Committee. For more than an hour, organizers heard from business owners’ continued

By DAVID CRUZ

The fifteen students from PS 94 huddled around a kitchen eyeing the tray of holiday cookies ready for baking and decorating, its fresh cinnamon scent lingering about. For the kids, it was fun. For Mosholu Montefiore Community Center (MMCC) of Norwood, it was a giveback for the kids. “I know that they don’t have a kitchen where they’re at, and maybe they don’t have the opportunity to bake,” Yuisa Santiago, director of MMCC’s culinary arts program, said of the first-ever event. The students are part of the MMCC afterschool program installed at PS 94, with funding through the city’s Comprehensive