Neighborhood Notes

Tenant Assistance The Office of Senator Gustavo Rivera offers assistance on tenant-related issues every Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. by appointment at 2432 Grand Concourse. For more information or to make an appointment, call (718) 933-2034. Halloween at Gracie Mansion Free tickets for a Spooky Halloween at Gracie Mansion on Oct. 28 and 29 are available now through Oct. 17. To reserve a spot, go to www.nyc.gov/GracieHalloween or call 311. Donate Used Coats The Office of Councilman Andy King is accepting winter coats for the less fortunate, starting Oct. 31. Donate new or gently used, clean coats to 940 E. Gun

By DANIELA BEASLEY

Flu Season may peak during December and March, but Beatrice McMillan, along with others, isn’t chancing it this year and has already gotten her shot. “I think they are out of their minds,” McMillan said of people who choose not to get vaccinated. “I would feel unsafe if I didn’t get it. I need that flu shot.” This is the third year in a row McMillan has gotten her vaccination at the R.A.I.N. Boston Road Senior Center. A member of the center since 2009, the fact that it’s free certainly works as an incentive to get her shot as early

Hello Fellow Readers! David Cruz, editor-in-chief of the Norwood News, here with another edition of the Norwood News, bringing you plenty of Bronx community news you can use! This week we bring you stories that have a direct impact on your life! We first begin with a proposal to bring a homeless shelter by a nonprofit provider with a checkered past. The plan is still in the talks phase, though sources tell us the developer has been eyeing one Norwood location that’s across from an elementary/middle school. Read reaction from parents and community stakeholders. Venturing inside the cover you will read a story

Friends of Mosholu Parkland, the civic group boasting and promoting the verdant dale of Mosholu Parkland, held its first annual Fall Festival (not to be confused with Jerome-Gun HIll Business Improvement District’s event of the same name). The group headed to Kossuth Playground on Mosholu Parkway North, for the daytime soiree. It was all fun and games, really, with the group hosting games, planting dafodils and hearing the musical stylings of Steve Oates. Pictures by Miriam Quinones [URIS id=21919]

Furry Bandits Raid Norwood Store

By DAVID GREENE

For the second time in as many weeks a pair of bandits has broken into a local GNC store and police and passersby were baffled to learn that the intruders were of the 4-legged kind. Police were called to the vitamin supplement shop at 3453 Jerome Ave. along the Jerome-Gun Hill Business Improvement District at 9 a.m. on Sept. 29, for an “animal incident,” involving raccoons. A dispatcher quickly reported it had “one in custody.” The four officers met the employee, who watched as the pair of furry creatures scurried about the store’s counter-tops and shelves in a search for food. Asked

Staffers with Councilman Andrew Cohen, representing Norwood, led a workshop session at the Williamsbridge Oval Recreation Center on Participatory Budgeting, an initiative that empowers residents to offer input on how a portion of capital monies should be spent. The process on choosing a project can take months. Staffers helped civic-minded residents figure out what could work as a potential project. Photos by Miriam Quinones [URIS id=21876]

Latest Edition of the Norwood News is Out!

By DAVID CRUZ

Hello fellow readers, The newest edition of the Norwood News is out with 20 pages of Bronx community news you can use. We begin with a familiar story: The Kingsbridge Armory. The latest in this poor, ongoing saga is the Kingsbridge National Ice Center’s attempt at wanting to purchase the enormous property from the City of New York. Read about those attempts by the developers attorneys who are using every legal maneuver in the book to grab a hold of the property. Here in Norwood, we feature a story on the District Manager of Community Board 7, Andrew Sandler, facing the possibility

By DAVID GREENE

A firefighter chief is dead and twelve others were injured following an explosion of a home in Kingsbridge, which is now under suspicion for housing a so-called “grow house.” Battalion Chief Michael Fahy, a 17-year veteran with the FDNY, was struck with debris from the exploding home at 300 W. 234th Street as he directed operations from outside the home. “It’s a terrible loss for the family, for the Fahy family,” FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said at a news conference at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where Fahy was rushed to. “It’s a loss for the Fire Department family. We are a

COMMUNITY BOARD 7 will hold its general board meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 20, at 6:30 p.m. at Sister Annunciata Bethell Senior Center, 243 E. 204th St. CB7 committee meetings are held on the following dates at the board office, 229 E. 204th St., at 6:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted: Housing, Land Use & Zoning Committee on Sept. 21; and Economic Development Committee on Sept. 27. For more information, call the Board office at (718) 933-5650. THE 52ND PRECINCT COMMUNITY COUNCIL will meet Sept. 22 at 2455 Sedgwick Ave. (across from Fordham Hill Oval Cooperative) from 7 to 9 p.m. For