Fernandez Proposes Mental Health Days

Neighborhood Notes: Free Immigration Service

By SHA-NIA ALSTON and DAVID CRUZ

Assemblywoman Nathalia Fernandez, who represents Norwood, is proposing students take look after their mental health more by introducing a bill that would allocate mental and behavior days for students during the school year. “Given, well, the current conversation and rightful awareness to the issue of students need that extra help. We have seen how some students can act out because of the balance school, and home life, maybe bullying within the school. This is just to give them that time that is needed,” Fernandez told the Norwood News. Fernandez introduced the bill on Aug. 23. The change would involve the state

Crime File: Push-In Robbers Wanted in Bedford Park

By DAVID CRUZ and SHA-NIA ALSTON

Push-In Robbery Two armed men are wanted for forcing their way into an apartment in Bedford Park, tying up the victims, and burning one of them with an iron. Police said this happened at 1 p.m. inside 400 E. Mosholu Pkwy. S. on Oct. 13. The victims, a 33-year-old woman and 45-year-old man, were tied with shoe laces, and pressed for money, which they did not give up. The men then took off, taking the victims’ cell phones with them. The woman was not hurt and the other victim declined medical attention. Video surveillance captured one of the suspects wearing

By Judy Noy

Editor’s Pick Fall Festival Fun The public is invited to attend the Jerome Gun Hill BID’s 18th annual Fall Festival, Oct. 12 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. along Jerome Avenue between East Mosholu Parkway North and East Gun Hill Road. Events include music, games, arts & crafts, face painting, pumpkin patch, vendors, food, and adoptable dogs. For more information, call (718) 324-4946. Onstage Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance (BAAD), 2474 Westchester Ave., presents 2019 BlakTinX Performance Series, a variety of performances through Nov. 2, featuring singers, dancers, musicians and actors. For more information and a detailed schedule including

Councilman Fernando Cabrera Looks to Unseat AOC

By JONATHAN CUSTODIO and DAVID CRUZ

From serving the 14th Council District to running in the 14th Congressional District. Councilman Fernando Cabrera, whose council district covers Kingsbridge Heights, announced he’s running for the 14th Congressional District, becoming the eleventh candidate to enter the race against Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), a race that’s widely comprised of Republican challengers. Speaking to the Norwood News, Cabrera, who’s known for his moderate conservative stances that have earned him scorn over the years, blasted Ocasio-Cortez for her neo-progressive views hostile towards big corporations. “My first concern was the Amazon deal,” said Cabrera, referring to the online giant’s backpedaling of its plan

Vaping-Related Death in Bx. A Bronx teen has died from a vaping-related illness, marking the first such death in the state, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo, who has taken up the issue of vaping, announced the death at a news conference. “This vaping is a public health crisis. It is affecting our young people. It has been marketed to young people,” Cuomo told reporters. The teen was rushed to Montefiore Medical Center after he became ill, according to published reports. More than 100 people across the state have become ill from vaping, with 21 across the city. The teen

By DAVID CRUZ

Dear Fellow Readers, The year’s twentieth edition of the Norwood News is out with plenty of interesting community news stories to read and share. We have 28 pages packed full of news from this corner of the Bronx, so let’s start with page one! Our top story focuses on an impending sewer rehabilitation project that’s expected to make commuting in Norwood even more problematic. The New York City Department of Design and Construction says the project on Bainbridge Avenue near East Gun Hill Road–an already tough intersection–will last upwards of a year. We ask folks living in Norwood what they thought

By JEROME GUN HILL BID

For the last 28 years, Dawn Param-Knight has been in the business of making people feel beautiful. She opened her salon, Perfect Pose Hair Design at 323 E. Gun Hill Rd. in 1992, shortly after arriving in New York City from Jamaica. Ever since then she has been hard at work, honing her craft to ensure that her customers feel more confident after they leave her chair. Param-Knight first became interested in doing hair when she was just nine years old. “I grew up as an only child. I had no one else to play with but my doll. So

SEE VIDEO: 14-Year-Old's Stabbing Linked to Trinitarios

By MICHAEL TURAY

A suspect involved in the June 2018 gang attack of a 14-year-old teen on the Bronx River Parkway near the East Gun Hill Road exit is among those arrested in a sweep of Trinitarios on Wednesday morning. NYPD cops coordinated a number of raids in the Bronx and Manhattan, arresting multiple alleged leaders of the Trinitarios gang, according to PIX 11. The arrests happened in the Soundview section of the Bronx. The members were detained for stabbings and attacks conducted over the last several years throughout upper Manhattan and the Bronx, including the attack on Bronx River Parkway. HAPPENING

By JOSÉ A. GIRALT

Twenty-five years ago, Mohammed Iqbal Hussaine, 71, moved to Norwood from Queens and was surprised by the number of Irish neighbors he met. “They treated me very well,” Hussaine recalls. After spending two years traveling to Parkchester for the closest mosque, Hussaine, his friend Syed Jamin Ali and a few others founded the North Bronx Islamic Center (NBIC) inside the basement of a private house at 3150 Perry Ave. Today, as the neighborhood continues to undergo a cultural transformation, Hussaine, now retired, volunteers as the secretary of the NBIC with a new four-story building serving as the mosque, or Masjid,