September Primary Results: Familiarity Trumps Fresh Faces in the Bronx

By DAVID CRUZ, WENDY JOAN BIDDLECOMBE, and JALEESA BAULKMAN

The Bronx political landscape stayed on course in the northwest part of the borough, with incumbents and frontrunners predictably winning in the September Democratic Primary, a contest that closely predicts the outcome of Bronx races in November’s General Election. The victories once again signaled the party machine at work, as major support and campaign money helped secure victories for the favorites. 36th Senate District The 36th State Senate District, covering Norwood, Bedford Park, Wakefield, Edenwald, Co-Op City, and Mount Vernon in Westchester County, saw Jamaal T. Bailey edge out four other contenders in a decidedly easy victory for the young

By the time the next edition of the Norwood News rolls in, droves of voters will have headed to schools, community centers and the like to cast their ballot for their next legislator this primary election cycle. Or, if the cynical side prevails, they’ll stay home. Voting, it seems, has become blasé and an avoidable chore. Sadly, the Bronx, a borough that’s home to some 619,241 voters facing issues of income inequality, housing and health disparities, only saw 6 percent of its electorate go to the polls in 2015 (coincidentally, Norwood also had 6 percent of its residents go to

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

By DAVID CRUZ

The tenants of 267 E. 202nd St. no longer call that address home. At least not for now. It didn’t come as a result of their ongoing legal dispute with their landlord, Peter Fine, who long sought to aggressively evict tenants while apparently eyeing the property for high-rise redevelopment, but an overnight fire that tore through the entire two-story home, displacing four families and complicating their lawsuit. But Fine, a multimillionaire and real estate magnate whose portfolio includes Boricua Village in the Melrose section of the Bronx and several luxury homes in Florida, may still be on the hook

Dear Fellow Readers: How much does your neighborhood mean to you? For some, it’s a place to reside. For others, it’s a place to build a family. Whether transient or a mainstay, we are all products of a neighborhood, charged up by its tempo and space. In the Bronx, a kaleidoscope of communities east and west, north and south, give the borough a uniqueness unlike most of the city. If you look to the west, a bustling Fordham shopping district sees some 80,000 people overrun the ever-growing strip while City Island, resting at the eastern tip of the Bronx, offers

By DAVID GREEN

Paving the way to housing equality stood on the top of an agenda for a social justice group the last week of July. Hundreds of Bronx residents turned out for the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition’s (NWBCCC) unveiling of its Roadmap From Displacement to Abundance Community Resource Fair, held on Sunday, July 31 at St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church on Andrews Avenue North in Fordham. The campaign, part of NWBCCC’s core mission tenets, offers information to combat displacement. The group took a broader look at fighting issues of tenant harassment in the Bronx. Invited guests included state Senator