Previewing the September Primary in the Bronx

The September Primary, a solid indicator of who will win November’s General Election, is coming up in the Bronx. Several key Democratic races have heated up in the last few weeks before voters head to the polls on Sept. 13. The Norwood News breaks down some of those key races: 33rd State Senate District Senator Gustavo Rivera of the 33rd Senate District and City Councilman Fernando Cabrera of the 14th Council District took part in a heated debate on BronxTalk with Gary Axelbank. This is Cabrera’s second attempt at unseating Rivera, the incumbent who’s held the seat since 2011. Cabrera’s

Participatory Budgeting Workshop assemblies on Participatory Budgeting, a process where residents decide how $1 million of taxpayer money will be spent for community improvements in their neighborhoods, take place at the following locations: Bedford Park Senior Center, 243 E. 204th St., on Sept. 8, and at the Williamsbridge Oval on Sept. 28, both at 7 p.m. For more information or to RSVP, call the Office of Councilman Andrew Cohen at (718) 549-7300. September Primary New York State’s Primary takes place on Sept. 13. Polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. across the Bronx. To find your nearest

By By ANTHONY RIVIECCIO, MBA, PFA Founder, Financial Advisors Group

Do you know what it means to your pocketbook when presidential candidate Donald Trump says, ” I’m going to lower your taxes” or his opponent, Hillary Clinton, says, ” We need more infrastructure to create jobs”? Wait, that can be a bit too out there so let me localize the question: Is your savings account getting more than 3 percent? Is your retirement investment account or 401(k) really going up or down? The stock market , for August, went down. The lack of financial planning or financial literacy, as we like to call it, is becoming very scary as we

COMMUNITY BOARD 7 committees are held on the following dates at the Board office, 229A E. 204th St., at 6:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted: Budget, Personnel & Ethics Committee on Sept. 1 at 6 p.m.; Public Safety & Quality of Life Committee on Sept. 1; Education, Youth & Libraries Committee on Sept. 1 at 7:30 p.m.; Executive Committee on Sept. 6; Traffic & Transportation Committee on Sept. 8; Veterans Committee on Sept. 8 at 7:30 p.m.; Environment & Sanitation Committee on Sept. 13; and Health & Hospitals Committee on Sept. 13. For more information, call the Board office at (718)

Greeting Readers! After a brief hiatus (depending on how you ask) the Norwood News is back with its regularly scheduled edition of the neighborhood paper covering plenty of Bronx news you can use. We begin with a story we’ve been following for some time, the saga involving a two-story home on Bedford Park. We bring you up to speed of the aftermath of a fire that impacted the tenants who were in the middle of fighting their landlord in court. Find out how the city is helping to restore the building. In other news: with the September Primary right around

If one were to compare the Bronx to the human anatomy, Morris Park would be located where the heart should be. For years, residents of this middle class neighborhood enjoyed a quality of life only matched by Riverdale or Pelham Bay. But residents today worry the quality of life they have enjoyed for decades is quickly deteriorating, and they’re fighting back. Made up mostly of tree-lined streets and private homes, many residents enjoy life without the alternate-side parking quandary that dominates the Bronx as homeowners clean the streets in front of their property. The community enjoys some of the best

By DAVID CRUZ

It’s unclear what the true story is behind the name Norwood, a moniker that’s surprisingly common around the world (there’s a Norwood in South Australia). It could be the namesake of Carlisle Norwood, a friend of Leonard Jerome, a flamboyant moneyman whose fame rewarded him with a street bearing his name. Or it could be a melding of “North Woods” as origin stories as far as some Norwood cities and towns go. Whatever the backstory, the Norwood section of the Bronx is unlike the others identified across the globe. A bygone feel courses through Norwood, one of the borough’s leafiest

A small yet distinct slice of the Big Apple sits at the northernmost part of the Bronx. Largely surrounded by tall trees and shamrock decorated corner stores, Woodlawn is a close-knit area that has been home to the Irish-American community for generations. Its ties to Ireland are understated yet pronounced. Green-colored awnings dominate Katonah Avenue, Woodlawn’s main street, home to an array of pubs and bakeries that pay tribute to auld sod. To help preserve the green oasis, a little over a dozen women formed a civic group in 2014 called the Women of Woodlawn (WOW), joining a list

By MELISSA CEBOLLERO

I have been a proud “Mussell Sucker” for more than a decade. If you are not a City Islander, named for those living in the City Island section of the Bronx, you may be asking yourself, “What in the world do you mean?” The legend goes as far back as the early 1900s, when the term referred to City Islanders who were not native to the island. Back in that century, it literally meant that you were not born on the island once tethered to the nearby town of Pelham in Westchester County. If you were literally born on the island (home births were a normal occurrence at the time),