Neighborhood Notes

DYCD Application NYC’s Department of Youth and Community Development is accepting applications for the 2015 Summer Youth Employment Program through April 10. SYEP is available for young people ages 14 to 24 with up to six weeks of entry-level experience at worksites in the city. Participants are selected by lottery for the program, which runs from July 6 through Aug. 15 and are compensated for their work. Worksites interested in providing jobs have until May 16 to apply. For more information, call 311 or DYCD Youth Connect at (800) 246-4646. Poe Cottage Adds Hours The Edgar Allan Poe Cottage, 2640 Grand Concourse, is

Out & About – Gearing Up for An Annual Flea Market

Editor’s Pick BMCA Flea Market The public is invited to a flea market sponsored by the Bedford Mosholu Community Association at St. Mary’s Orthodox Church, 360 E. Bedford Pk. Blvd. (at Decatur Avenue), on March 7 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call (718) 584-1900.

Digital Edition of the Norwood News Is Out!

By DAVID CRUZ In another day filled with snow, snow, and more snow the Norwood News hopes you stay warm, cozy and aware of the latest edition of our neighborhood newspaper. We have twenty pages full of community news you can use. We first begin with a plan by The Doe Fund to build Webster Green, a supportive/affordable housing at a prime piece of real estate on the ever-changing Webster Avenue, an area that seems to be pushing in different directions. Find out what community stakeholders have to say along with the developers of Webster Green. We also have an

Housing Advocates Seek Community Input for Burgeoning Jerome Avenue Plan

BY JENNY SHARP New York politicians have turned their gaze to the west Bronx, unfurling plans to tap into the neighborhoods’ commercial and residential potential. And community stakeholders want in on the process.

At Amalgamated Houses, a New Center for Teens Courtesy of MMCC

The Mosholu Montefiore Community Center (MMCC) teamed up with the Amalgamated/Park Reservoir Housing Development, to officially open a Boys & Girls Club in the Amalgamated Houses.

De Blasio Clears Way for Margaret Mack Triangle

By KIMBERLY JACOBS The de Blasio administration has honored the Norwood/Bedford Park community’s request to have a street renamed on behalf of a community activist who passed away last year.

Inquiring Photographer – Passing the Mid-Winter Point

By David Greene This week we asked readers on how they’ve been coping with all the snow and how the city has dug itself out of a series of snowstorms. Hey, it’s a piece of cake; the city’s doing good. I’ve been getting along fantastic. I don’t own my own home, so I don’t have to shovel. It’s Mother Nature, that’s all. –Sean Slattery, Norwood I’ve been dealing with it the best I can as far as paying attention to the weather reports and getting out when I have to get there and get back when

By MONICA MELTON An ‘Artify’ movement is coming to a neighborhood near you. And it starts in Norwood.

Out & About: Celebrating Black History Month

EDITOR’S PICK Celebrating Black History Month at Bronx Library Center The Bronx Library Center, 310 E. Kingsbridge Rd., presents the following programs in celebration of Black History Month. For more information, call (718) 579-4244/46/57 or visit www.nypl.org.