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Bronx Photos: Marching to Spring Training

Last Saturday, baseball players, coaches, parents and other supporters from the Mosholu Montefiore Community Center’s youth baseball league marched from the center on East Gun Hill Road and DeKalb Avenue to Harris Field in Bedford Park as part of the league’s Opening Day festivities. Photographer Adi Talwar was there to capture all the action for the Norwood News.

Bronx News Roundup

The New York Times article on longtime Bronx environmental activist Majora Carter and her business relationship to FreshDirect’s move into the borough has received attention from the borough’s president, Ruben Diaz Jr. The Bronx president says “critics of Ms. Carter are misguided and misinformed,” and that the company’s move into the Bronx will only add to the borough’s success.  Read Diaz’s letter to the editor. A Bronx VA exoskeletal-assisted walking study is helping paraplegic veterans stand, walk, and climb up stairs. The invention, called “ReWalk” is being studied at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center in the Bronx. The


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Board 7 and DOT Host Meeting to Discuss Oval Park Safety Issues

Community Board 7 will be hosting a meeting with the Department of Transportation to discuss proposed pedestrian safety improvements along Reservoir Oval/Williamsbridge Oval Park. All are welcome and encouraged to attend the meeting on Wednesday, April 17, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Mosholu Montefiore Medical Community Center, 3450 DeKalb Avenue at East Gun Hill Road.

Early Morning Violence Outside of Oval Park

Just before 9 o’clock this morning, traffic built up around Reservoir Oval in Norwood as dozens of local police, aided by helicopters, chased after a group of suspects who, witnesses said, severely beat up a local barber.