Stagg Group To Build More Housing On Webster Avenue

Property owners make its second major purchase along desirable corridor By DAVID CRUZ The large-scale developer building up Webster Avenue has purchased another chunk of property along the burgeoning corridor.

Accepting Applications for Winter/Spring Session Bronx Youth Heard

The award-winning Bronx community newspaper the Norwood News is now accepting applications for the spring semester of Bronx Youth Heard, an after-school journalism program for high school students. The program is free and open to any high school student who lives or goes to school in the Bronx. Throughout the course of the semester, students learn the fundamentals of writing, reporting, and photojournalism through classroom instruction and hands-on reporting in their own neighborhoods. They learn about community activism and civic responsibility, how their neighborhoods work (or don’t), who has power, who doesn’t and why. We take them on field trips

Opinion: “Why I am Visiting Israel”

by Ruben Diaz Jr., Bronx Borough President The people of the United States have stood strong with the people of Israel from the day that country was founded in 1947. As the only democracy in the Middle East, and as our key ally in the fight against terrorism, Israel holds a special place in the hearts and minds of Americans. This is especially true in New York City, which has shared a unique and significant relationship with the Jewish people and the state of Israel for decades.

Bronx News Roundup: Stories From Bronx Journalists

by David Cruz The Norwood News is putting its aggregator cap on to bring you Bronx News Roundup, a collection of some of the stories Bronx journalists around the borough are working on. First up, in light of the freezing temps we’ve been feeling around the borough lately, News 12 The Bronx is reporting on sub-zero conditions at International Leadership Charter School that’s compounded by a running air conditioner. Over in Hunts Point, food workers are threatening to walk off the job at the Hunts Point Produce Market if they’re denied a $5 raise, reports the Daily News. Winnie Hu of the New

Editorial – Forecasting the Norwood News Stories of 2015

The New Year is often marked with questions. For the Norwood News, our key question is this–what will the state of the northwest Bronx be on Dec. 31, 2015? To answer that, the Norwood News is turning to the past, examining last year’s stories to predict some of this year’s hot topics for the northwest Bronx:

Digital Edition of the Norwood News, First of 2015, Is Out!

by David Cruz If you’re in the northwest Bronx, take a walk to one of 300 locations to pick up your free copy of the Norwood News. Or you could just read it from the comfort of your computer or smart phone. We’re excited to publish the first edition of 2015, loaded with local news, a New Years editorial and our ever-popular Out & About and Neighborhood Notes section. We’re also proud to host Bob Kappstatter, a guest contributor for the newspaper, who drafted our lead story–year-end crime stats for the 52nd Precinct. Stats show the precinct is headed in a

By DAVID CRUZ Behind the holiday lights strung throughout four commercial strips, a blueprint for bolstering economic fervor along a major thoroughfare, and a revamped Norwood News, the Mosholu Preservation Corporation (MPC) has overseen it all. And that’s just in 2014.

Norwood News’ 2014 Year In Review

By HAYLEY CAMACHO The northwest Bronx has seen quite a batch of news stories that have gripped, intrigued and caused quite a stir during 2014. The Norwood News tracked many of these stories this year, and in some cases, broken them. As part of a yearly tradition, we look back at some of the top stories of 2014.

After Shooting of Brooklyn Officers, the Bronx Presses the Need for Unity

by David Cruz A push for calm in the aftermath of two cops fatally shot in Brooklyn has reverberated in the Bronx, with legislators siding with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s stance for unity following weeks of tensions and strained relations. In Kingsbridge Heights, legislators and residents stood outside the 50th Precinct, pushing for a more tempered city two days after Police Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were gunned down by Ismaaiyl Brinsley, a mentally ill Baltimore man bent on killing police officers. Brinsley would later kill himself while on the platform of a subway station.