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By SÍLE MOLONEY & EMILY SAWAKED

Local People Reported Missing in Recent Weeks A 22-year-old woman was reported missing in the Norwood section of The Bronx. Click here for more details. A 29-year-old man was reported missing in the Wakefield section of The Bronx. Click here for more details. A 75-year-old man was reported missing from Van Cortlandt Village. Click here for more details. A 16-year-old girl was reported missing from Bedford Park. Click here for more details. A 68-year-old man was reported missing in the Wakefield section of The Bronx. Click here for more details. A 76-year-old woman was reported missing from Kingsbridge Heights. Click

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Building applications have been filed with New York City Department of Buildings for a new 6-story, residential building at 3991 Saxon Avenue in the Van Cortlandt Village section of The Bronx, as reported by YIMBY. Located between Sedgwick Avenue and Van Cortlandt Park South, the lot is a 4-minute walk from Mosholu Parkway subway station, serviced by the 4 train. Leunard Vushaj is listed as the owner behind the applications. \ The proposed 55-foot tall development will yield 11,813 square feet designated for residential space. According to YIMBY, the building will have 17 residential units, most likely rentals based

By SÍLE MOLONEY

As the incumbent assemblyman representing Assembly District 81 since 1994, Jeffrey Dinowitz is both a seasoned politician and candidate when it comes to election campaigns. He has seen off a number of political challengers over the course of his political career to retain his Northwest Bronx seat and appears adamant to keep it that way. Given his many years in office, and the countless pieces of legislation on which he has worked throughout his career, Norwood News asked Dinowitz if he could speak to what he felt were the top three priorities for his current campaign. “It’s really hard

By EMILY SAWAKED

The lack of trash cans for pedestrians on Bronx streets has been noticed by residents for quite a while. As reported, the situation worsened amid the pandemic with many people eating outdoors in parks, especially in summertime, often causing existing cans to be overloaded. Though that specific problem is not yet resolved, Bronx Community Board 7 (CB7) and City officials are working, in the meantime, on other ways to keep the borough’s sidewalks and parks clean. CB7 held its latest sanitation committee meeting on Tuesday, June 7, and members discussed how litter and other trash is consistently dumped onto

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Building applications have been filed with New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) for a new, 6-story, residential building at 256 Mount Hope Place in the Tremont section of The Bronx, as reported by YIMBY. Located between Monroe and Anthony Avenues, the lot is a 5-minute walk to the Tremont Avenue subway station, serviced by the B and D trains. Moshe Steinmetz, under MS Investments 3 LLC, is listed as the owner behind the applications. The proposed 70-foot tall development will yield 9,620 square feet designated for residential space, according to YIMBY. The building will have 21 residential

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Building applications have been filed with New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) for “a vertical and horizontal enlargement” of a 2-story structure into a 4-story residential building at 51 West 174th Street in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx, as reported by YIMBY. Located between Macombs Road and Grand Avenue, the lot is a 5-minute walk to the 176th Street subway station, serviced by the 4 train. Yitzi Salamon is listed as the owner behind the applications. The proposed 55-foot-tall development will yield 13,179 square feet designated for residential space. The building will have 25 residential

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Building applications have been filed with New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) to expand an existing two-story, two-family structure into a four-story, residential building at 2835 Sedgwick Avenue in the Kingsbridge Heights section of The Bronx, as reported by YIMBY. Located between Perot Street and West Kingsbridge Avenue, the lot is a 7-minute walk from Kingsbridge Road subway station, servicing the D line, and a 13-minute walk from the 231st Street subway station, servicing the 1 train. Yaakov Lefkowitz of Lefko Capital Group is listed as the owner behind the applications. The proposed 54-foot-tall development will yield

By EMILY SAWAKED

The following is an extended version of the story that appears in our latest print edition. The Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC) hosted a candidates’ forum at Monroe College on Wednesday, May 26, for candidates running in the 78th and the 81st Assembly Districts in the upcoming June Democratic primaries. Both Assemblyman José Rivera (A.D. 78), who was not present on the night, was re-elected to his seat in 2000, having previously served in the Assembly from 1982 to 1987 and who won in 2020 with over 86 percent of the vote, and Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz (A.D. 81),

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Building applications have been filed with NYC Department of Buildings (DOB) to expand a two-story, two-home structure into a seven-story residential building at 2073 Ryer Avenue in the Tremont section of The Bronx, as reported by YIMBY. Located between East Burnside Avenue and East 180th Street, the lot is two blocks from the 182nd-183rd Street subway station, serviced by the B and D trains. According to YIMBY, Aleksander Mici is listed as the owner behind the applications. The proposed 60-foot-tall development will yield 13,116 square feet designated for residential space. The building will have 23 residential units, most

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