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

By DAVID CRUZ The corner of East 204th Street and Webster Avenue serves as a kind of marquee gateway into Norwood and Bedford Park’s small business community.

County Leader Search Continues The Bronx Democratic County leader post remains vacant…for now.

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.

New Related Properties In Bronx Put Spotlight on City Real Estate Investments

By DAVID CRUZ When Sally Dunford, executive director of West Bronx Housing, learned a multi-billion dollar conglomerate snatched up a portfolio of Bronx buildings through a city deal, she began scratching her head.

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.

Report Finds NYCHA Buildings in Disarray With Little Accountability

By ROSE ITZCOVITZ In a city of thousands of building landlords, a pair of Bronx lawmakers has pegged the New York City Housing Authority one of the worst landlords.

In State of the Borough Address, BP Diaz Jr. Touts Bronx on the Mend

By DAVID CRUZ In a State of the Borough speech packed with pomp, ambition and proposals, Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. talked of the Bronx on the mend, powered by a list of accomplishments and tempered gravitas.