With Goal of Forging Community Bond, NYPD Top Cop Tours Bronx

By DAVID GREENE & DAVID CRUZ

A crowd of more than 200 community residents turned out for a public safety forum organized by Congressman Adriano Espaillat of the 13th Congressional District and held on April 3 at Our Lady of Refuge Church on East 196th Street in Bedford Park. The event brought NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill, whose attempts at forging stronger community relations prompted him to hold open forums. Topics covered in the more than two-hour meeting included gangs, crime, the local opioid epidemic that’s crushing Bedford Park and Fordham. The meeting was held within the 52nd Precinct, covering Norwood, Bedford Park, Fordham, Kingsbridge, Kingsbridge Heights

Dear Fellow Readers! The latest edition of the Norwood News, covering the northwest Bronx, is out with its latest edition for 2018. We welcome you to check out plenty of stories featured in this fresh edition. We begin, of course, with page one and a story involving a community garden and one headstrong neighbor who refuses to throw in the towel. Read about Elizabeth Carson and her quest for governance at Risse Street Garden. Also, get a sense of how the agency tasked to bring order to community gardens is handling this. Inside the cover you’ll find a recap of

Latest Edition of the Norwood News is Out!

By DAVID CRUZ

Dear Fellow Readers! The latest edition of the Norwood News, covering the northwest Bronx, is out with its latest edition for 2018. We welcome you to check out plenty of stories featured in this year’s sixth edition. We begin, of course, with page one and a story involving a back-and-forth battle between a Norwood resident and a developer building right next door to his house. Hear this ping-pong of a story and why both sides remain at an impasse. Inside the cover you’ll find the latest on the Kingsbridge National Ice Center, where the founder of the mega-project stopped to

Illegal Parking Takes a Back Seat Following Crackdown (Picture)

By DAVID CRUZ

Van Cortlandt Village residents are getting their spots back! After months of illegal parking on Goulden Avenue by commercial vehicles for a litany of reasons, a major crackdown by the 52nd Precinct at the behest of electeds saw plenty of those vehicles not come back. The stretch on Goulden Avenue between West 197th Street and Sedgwick Avenue is close to Van Cortlandt Village’s heavy residential population, making those spots a premium. When a major, monthslong Con Edison project on Sedgwick Avenue saw a number of spots reserved exclusively for work trucks, it squeezed parking even more. “Parking is one of

By DAVID CRUZ

Two men are wanted for questioning in a case involving a stolen $8,000 watch from a Fordham jewelry store. Police say the theft happened on Feb. 19 at around 3:45 p.m. They say one of the suspects was inside 13 W. Fordham Rd. looking at a watch. Once the suspect was allowed to look at the watch, the employee let the suspect’s accomplice inside. The suspect holding the quickly ran out the store along with his accomplice holding the door open, police say. Both men took off in an unknown direction with the pricey watch. No one was hurt. Police

Neighborhood Notes: Free Immigration Service

By DAVID GREENE

With the recent school shooting in Florida, we asked readers if such a tragedy could happen here. To be honest, it is possible because people get bullied a lot. I’d heard about the student who stabbed two students here in the Bronx and the killer was actually bullied. So it is possible. The victims of bullying like to take things into their own hands. When you’re in school you don’t really think about these things, but sometimes you do see signals and I’ll think about it. People need to ask a person how he feels; he could be suicidal. Friends

By DAVID CRUZ

The fifth edition of the Norwood News, primarily covering the northwest Bronx, is out with plenty of community news. We have 16 pages full of news for you to share with your friends, family, and make you the smartest person in the room! We begin with page one and a quality of life inconvenience that is being addressed: loud parties and spurts of violence at Devoe Park in University Heights. Reporter Niall Ridgley reports that it’s the off season now, and Councilman Fernando Cabrera has ordered gates to be installed at nine of the park’s entrances. Hear what residents have

A 21-year-old man from the Bedford Park section of the Bronx has been reported missing for several days. Mohammed T. Hossain was last seen on Feb. 21 at the area of Mosholu Parkway North and Bainbridge Avenue at around 5 p.m., according to police. He was last seen wearing a black coat, a black hooded sweater, blue jeans and black and yellow sneakers. He stands at 5′ 5″ tall, weighs 110 pounds, has brown eyes and black hair. He lives on Bainbridge Avenue. Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s CrimeStoppers Hotline at (800) 577-TIPS (8477).

Norwood Man Pleads Guilty to Supporting ISIS

Norwood Man Charged with Aiding ISIS Terror Network (Picture)

By DAVID CRUZ

A Knox Place man has admitted to a federal judge that he attempted to fly to the Middle East so he can train with and join the terrorist group known as ISIS, among the many admissions made. Sajmir Alimehmeti, known as Abdul Qawii, faces numerous charges including one count of attempting to provide material to ISIS, making a false statement in an application for a US passport with intent to support ISIS, and attempting to join ISIS. He faces a maximum sentence of 45 years. “Sajmir Alimehmeti took steps to travel overseas to support ISIS’s terror campaign. He also bought