Out & About: Bronx Week Parade Kicks off at Mosholu Parkway

Editor’s Pick Bronx Week The public is invited to enjoy Bronx Week which takes place from May 5 to 15. Events include outdoor performances, health fairs, and more, culminating on May 15 in the free grand finale which includes Bronx Walk of Fame inductions at the steps of the Bronx County Building on the Grand Concourse at 161st Street (11 a.m.), followed by annual parade at noon (reviewing stand at Mosholu Parkway East at Van Cortlandt Avenue), and food & arts festival and concert on

Dear Loyal Readers, The latest edition of the Norwood News, covering all things northwest Bronx, is out with plenty of community news you can use. We begin, as always, on page 1 with an in-depth story on the 52nd Precinct’s newest commanding officer, Deputy Inspector Peter Fiorillo, who succeeds Inspector Nilda Hofmann. Read where Inspector Hofmann landed (it’s a very interesting place), and her thoughts on the borough she had once called home. Inside the cover you’ll read results on participatory budgeting, politics in the Bronx, and the latest in the Kingsbridge Armory saga. We’ll also bring you Bronx Youth

For anyone who’s lived in the Bronx long enough, they’ll learn it can take an insane amount of time to fix a quality of life problem. So if it’s a busted fire hydrant, perpetually loud neighbors, an overpopulated cat colony, or a lost coin (it’s been known to happen), resolve is almost never instantaneous, a curse that bedevils anyone making a complaint through the city’s 311 hotline. The system, implemented in 2003 during the Bloomberg years, serves as the city’s official customer service line, though that depiction is a stretch, depending on who you talk to. It functions more as

Editor’s Pick Keeping Fit The public is invited to join the following fundraisers, and exercise at the same time, both on April 30: Wildlife Conservation Society – Run for the Wild, a Run and Family Fun Run/Walk at the Bronx Zoo. Registration fee includes complimentary admission and parking, free post-run activities, refreshments, entertainment and a silent disco. For more information, visit wcsrunforthewild.org. Mosholu Community Center – B’N Fit Teen & Community Walk at the NY Botanical Garden, to call attention to ending teen obesity. In-person registration begins at 7:30 a.m.; walk begins at 8 a.m. Participants who raise $50 walk for

Hello Loyal Readers! The ninth edition of the Norwood News, covering community news you can use, is out, hitting over 300 locations throughout Norwood and its surrounding neighborhoods. Of course, we begin in Norwood, at the enormous Tracey Towers. There, residents are supporting a proposal to review the books of its management company’s $40 million renovation. Read why the tenants association are backing an audit proposal. We then recap a meeting involving Norwood’s community stakeholders and the Bangladeshi community. Aldo Perez organized the meeting. Learn why he believes crimes against Bangladeshis and Muslims are under-reported. There’s also a piece on the story

Greetings Loyal Readers! The Norwood News is out with its latest edition, bringing you plenty of Bronx community news you can use. We begin with what was a late-breaking story into our newsroom: developers of the Kingsbridge National Ice Center (KNIC) taking the city to court over its delay of a lease developers say belongs to them. Read what KNIC is alleging in the 35-page complaint filed in Bronx Supreme Court. The development seriously endangers the project, which could force the community, elected officials and the city to start all over. Next, an editorial that shows our cards and respect

Editor’s Pick Circus Comes to the Bronx UniverSoul Circus will take place from March 30 through April 10 at 50 E. 150th St. (across from the Bronx Terminal Market at 149th Street and Exterior Street, next to the bridge). Events include motorsports, canines, bicycles, dancing elephants, aerial acts and more. Tickets range from $16 through $40 depending on venue and day. For more information and schedules, visit www.universoulcircus.com. Onstage Lehman College’s Center for the Performing Arts, 250 Bedford Pk. Blvd. W., presents Lehman Woodwind Quintet, performing classical music, featuring audience participation, April 3 at 2 p.m., in the Recital Hall;

Dear Loyal Readers, The Norwood News, the Bronx community newspaper bringing you plenty of community news you can use, is out with its seventh edition of 2016! This week we once again go back to Kingsbridge Heights and a faceoff brewing between city officials and developers of the Kingsbridge National Ice Center. Apparently, the city is not satisfied with an explanation from KNIC saying it has money committed for the project. The New York City Economic Development Corporation is asking, “Show us the money!” Ice developers now have 30 more days to present funds. We also bring you stories on the

This week we asked readers their thoughts on Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.’s time in office, and asked them to name some of his successes or failures during his administration so far. Well, so far he’s been Borough President for more than four years. It must be more and he’s done a lot of good things. He cleaned up the Bronx River and he’s got us more housing. He’s interested in that stuff, better living and better jobs for us. I think he’s been a good borough president. I think he wants to accomplish a lot for the Bronx and for