Multi-Service POTS Expands to Fill Growing Needs

With local hunger and unemployment numbers on the rise, nonprofit multi-service group Part of the Solution is expanding with the opening of a brand new $8 million facility next door to its current Webster Avenue location.

Op-Ed: A Love Letter to Norwood

Dear Norwood, I can’t remember when I didn’t love you. When I was little, Mom and Dad and a half-dozen siblings would come to Perry Avenue, to Nana and PopPop’s house. It was so exciting after East Greenbush. We’d come down on the Thruway and get off at 233rd Street, and go down Jerome Avenue. I was convinced that the end of the No. 4 train at the Woodlawn station was the gateway to New York. You could see the world from Nana’s house — the subway, the Thanksgiving parade, or just feeding the ducks at Woodlawn Cemetery.

Healthy Recipes: Make Your Own Salad Dressing

Salads are great. Salads can — and should — be a part of your diet. They’re a tasty way to up your daily vegetable and fruit intake and a quick, easy meal to take with you to work. But salads can also be deceiving, when done wrong: a well-intentioned plate of greens can very easily go from healthy to high-calorie once you factor in toppings, and especially when doused in a fattening dressing (many restaurant salads are guilty of both). So why not make your own dressing at home?

City Can End Rental Program for Ex-Homeless, Judge Rules

A Manhattan State Supreme Court judge ruled last week that the city was no longer required to provide rental subsidies in a widely-used but controversial affordable housing program, putting thousands at risk of homelessness as soon as next month, some advocates say.

Another Push for Yankee Stadium Hotel

The Bronx is now one step closer to getting its own major hotel — not the seedy, hot-sheet kind that has so often plagued the borough, but what Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. predicts will be a “world-class” place to stay near Yankee Stadium.

Engel Backs Obama’s Call For ‘Millionaire’s Tax’

U.S. Congressman Eliot Engel, who represents portions of the north Bronx, is praising President Barack Obama’s plan to raise the base tax rates on the wealthiest Americans to raise revenue and reduce the country’s budget deficit.

PS 51’s Move to Crotona Not Seamless

For the parents of kids at PS 51, the move from a contaminated building in Bedford Park to the St. Martin of Tours building in Crotona has been mostly smooth, with some minor hiccups.

Parks Dept. Brings Oval Skaters to a Halt

Giovanni Martinez, 14, has been skateboarding at Williamsbridge Oval Park for about a year, using the concrete, foot-high ledges that surround the park’s trees and walkways to grind and perform tricks. But late this summer, the Parks Department halted the tricks by installing small metal wedges that protrude from the ledges, intended to stop the wheels on a skateboard.

Op-Ed: Ten Years After 9/11, the Last Word is Love

I was at a conference at Fordham University this past May entitled “Moral Outrage and Moral Repair — Reflections on 9/11 and its Afterlife.” The title interested me, as it seemed to accurately describe large portions of my existence this past decade. My brother, Bill Kelly, Jr., died in Tower 1 on September 11th. He wasn’t supposed to be there. He didn’t work at the Trade Center.