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Inquiring Photographer: Thoughts on Loud Music and Partying in Van Cortlandt Park

By DAVID GREENE
This week, we asked residents living in the vicinity of Jerome Avenue and East Gun Hill Road in Norwood, Woodlawn Heights, Van Cortlandt Park South, and Broadway if they have been bothered recently by loud music and partying in Van Cortlandt Park, since it tends to get worse in summer.  Only residents around Van Cortlandt Village were willing to speak on the record.

UPDATE Elections 2025: Rivera Canvasses in Bedford Park for Mamdani & Hosts “No Cuomo” Rally in Fordham

By DAVID GREENE, MIRIAM QUINONES & SÍLE MOLONEY
State Sen. Gustavo Rivera (S.D. 33) joined local supporters of mayoral candidate and, according to some recent polls, the frontrunner in the Democratic mayoral race, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (A.D. 36), on Mosholu Parkway in Bedford Park on Sunday, June 22, to canvass for his number one mayoral pick, before later heading to Fordham for a separate “No Cuomo” rally. The latter was organized to oppose Democratic mayoral candidate and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. 

Mayor Visits Site of 5-Alarm Fire in Fordham Manor in which 15 Were Injured, Highlights E-Bike Safety

By SÍLE MOLONEY
After a 5-alarm fire ripped through a two-family wooden home located at 2462 Devoe Terrace in Fordham Manor on Sunday evening, June 22, injuring 15 people, including FDNY and EMS personnel, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Fire Commissioner Ben Tucker, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Kaz Daughtry and other FDNY officials gathered for a press conference on Monday afternoon, June 23, outside the ruins of the building to give a further update on the blaze and on the investigation into its cause.

Elections 2025: Norwood: City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams Assesses Structural Needs of Tracey Towers

By SÍLE MOLONEY
City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, a Democratic mayoral candidate, along with her colleague, “Jack,” from the city council finance team, paid a visit to Tracey Towers in Bedford Park at the end of April, accompanied by local Councilman Eric Dinowitz (C.D. 11), to assess the structural needs of the 40-floor Mitchell Lama housing complex, and to hear from its many residents.