Property Housing Struggling Healthcare Nonprofit in Norwood Up For Sale

By DAVID CRUZ An office building home to a struggling social services firm in Norwood is up for sale, amid heavy selling and buying in the Bronx. The building has been home to Federation Employment & Guidance Service (FEGS), an 81-year non-profit that offers education, healthcare, disability care, housing and employment services primarily for the Jewish community, according to its website. The organization boasts 350 other locations citywide. A report in the New York Daily News in January said the firm is on the edge of filing for bankruptcy after laying off several dozen employees and revealing it’s $20 million in debt. Massey Knakal Realty

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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

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.