(Sponsored Content) Hot Deals Wait for You This Holiday Season at the JGHBID

By JEROME GUN HILL BID

Holiday shopping season has begun at the Jerome Gun Hill BID, and we won’t want you to miss it! Stores across the district are offering great deals on everything from sneakers and clothing to electronics and home appliances. Just under one mile from end to end, the BID is home to 230 small businesses on Jerome Avenue and East Gun Hill Road. With national retailers like Children’s Place and GameStop, as well as small mom and pop shops like Evita USA and BX Sports, there is something for everyone in the Jerome Gun Hill BID this season. If you are

Out & About: Free Holiday Events in the Bronx

Editor’s Pick Holiday Events The public is invited to the following free events: Tree Lighting – Dec. 5 at 5:30 p.m. at Lou Gehrig Plaza, East 161st Street and the Grand Concourse, featuring Christmas carols with Santa and Mrs. Claus, hot chocolate, cookies and a special treat from Santa while supplies last. Tree Lighting – Dec. 12 at 6 p.m. at the center mall at the intersection of Mosholu Parkway and Bainbridge Avenue, featuring hot chocolate, carolers, small gifts while supplies last, and a visit from Santa Claus. Info: (718) 933-5650. Winter Wonderland – Dec. 14 from 12:30 to 2:30

By DAVID CRUZ

The Stagg Group is on the cusp of finishing its newest building in Norwood, and while a quarter of those units are deemed affordable, it appears affordability is in the eye of the beholder. St. George Gardens, a 68-unit, mixed-income building at 186 St. Georges Crescent, a tiny street near Van Cortlandt Avenue East and the Grand Concourse, boasts 18 affordable units with rents that begin at $1,075 for studio apartments dedicated to renters with a maximum income of $52,290. Those renters fall within the 70 percent Area Median Income (AMI) range. For those at the 130 percent AMI, rent

By DAVID CRUZ

Thirteen library branches, including the Bronx Library Center in Fordham, will now join the fight for increased mental health awareness services in areas where such services are considerably low. First Lady Chirlane McCray, who helps oversee the office of ThriveNYC, made the announcement today alongside New York Public Library CEO Anthony Marx and ThriveNYC director Susan Herman at the Fordham branch that will see greater mental health resources, joining schools, senior centers, shelters, and police precincts across the city. The initiative, dubbed “Spaces to Thrive,” also includes Pelham Bay Library. “Libraries are in the heart of our communities, and we

A Solemn Goodbye to a Community Activist, MTA Reroute Bus Plan, and More: Latest Edition of the Norwood News is Out!

By NORWOOD NEWS

Dear Fellow Readers, The year’s twenty-fourth edition of the Norwood News is out with plenty of community stories to read and share. We have 28 pages packed full of news from this corner of the Bronx, so let’s start with page one! Our top story focuses on the death of well-known community activist Heidi Marie Schloegel Hynes. Hynes lost her battle with cancer at 51 years old on Nov. 24. Though she may have passed, her legacy will continue to inspire many activists across the Bronx, according to her supporters. Inside the cover you’ll read a piece on the MTA’s proposed bus route revamp

Neighborhood Notes: Free Immigration Service

By PROF. ANTHONY RIVIECCIO, MBA, PFA

So what is the purpose of work? To take care of yourself? To take care of family? To build a career? Is having a job the same as a career? And does it provide you the same satisfaction? While you think I might be talking about today’s gig economy, I was actually thinking about the entrepreneurship wave that took place in the 1980s and 1990s. From former President Ronald Reagan’s supply-side presidency, to former President Bill Clinton’s workers throughout the nation were getting hired, albeit with low wages, watching the new technology of the 1980s and 1990s slowly start to

Revered Catholic Statue Packs the Pews at St. Patrick’s Home

By JONATHAN CUSTODIO

Rosary prayers hummed as residents of St. Patrick’s Home Rehabilitation and Health Care Center made their way into the service hall for a day honoring Our Lady of Fatima, more commonly known as the Virgin Mary, whose statue arrived during the early morning hours of Nov. 13 as patrons celebrated Mass. For the director of pastoral care, Kathleen Mayer, the arrival of the bust represents a major honor. The Archdiocese of New York had advertised the availability of the statue in Catholic New York, advising anyone interested in having it shown off at its institute to contact them. Meyer put

By DAVID GREENE

This week we asked readers if former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a chance at securing the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. Yes, I do think he’ll get the nomination because he’s a billionaire and he knows politics; he’s been involved; he was a good mayor. But the stop and frisk policy for the NYPD was very questionable. The only thing he’s good at is being a businessman, which would help with jobs and help developers. There wouldn’t be much difference between him and [President] Donald Trump. Shirley Velasquez Mount Eden I think he can win

By MICHAEL TURAY

It didn’t come as a surprise as the Benjamin Franklin Reform Democratic Club (BFRDC) came in support of Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz in his primary bout against George Diaz for the 81st Assembly District seat, but there was some heckling he did receive from non-members. As Dinowitz and Diaz laid out their platforms to the club on Nov. 20, in which Dinowitz was unanimously voted as the preferred candidate, Dinowitz was criticized by anti-vaxxer protesters whose chants could be heard from inside the packed room at Tibbets Towers. The protestors voiced their displeasure with the Assemblyman since he was a prime