New NYPD Community Partnership Initiative Launches to Transform Future of NYC Policing

By SÍLE MOLONEY

On Tuesday, Oct. 13, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea announced a new partnership with Arva Rice, president and CEO of the New York Urban League; Jennifer Jones Austin, CEO and executive director of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies; and Wes Moore, CEO of Robin Hood, “to engage communities and people who live, work and serve throughout the city in the department’s ongoing effort to ensure public safety that is fair, responsive to, and considerate of all New Yorkers.” In partnership with the mayor’s office, the NYPD announced a department-wide undertaking to transform New York City policing to be safer

By NORA THOMAS & SÍLE MOLONEY

Norwood News, in partnership with WFUV radio and BronxNet Television, presents a five-part series on national issues affecting voters in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election, seen through the local lens of Bronx neighborhood communities. Part 2 looks at crime and criminal justice. New York State and City officials have drawn a lot of criticism from President Donald Trump this election cycle. In a Sept. 2 memo to the Department of Justice, drafted to review federal funding for certain state and local governments, Trump said New York City officials were “permitting anarchy, violence, and destruction,” in

By SÍLE MOLONEY

A coalition of community groups and local leaders are holding a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Mott Haven Community Refrigerator official launch on Monday, October 12, 2020 at 12 p.m. in Mott Haven at the intersection of 141st Street and Saint Ann’s Avenue in The Bronx. The Bronx Community Foundation, State Assembly candidate, Amanda Septimo, (D/WFP-84), and leaders from The American Dream Charter School, have joined forces to establish the first community refrigerator in Mott Haven. Co-organizers Daniel Zauderer and Charlotte Alvarez, both sixth-grade teachers at the American Dream School, say the community refrigerator is a freestanding outdoor refrigerator

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance have reminded New Yorkers of two important deadlines: Taxpayers who obtained a filing extension must submit their personal income tax returns on or before Thursday, October 15; and Some 538,000 New Yorkers who haven’t claimed the federal Economic Impact Payment that they’re eligible to receive from the IRS must do so by November 21. “With less than two weeks before the deadline for filing personal income tax returns on extension, we’re reminding taxpayers to take advantage of online guidance and free tax filing software available on our website,” said

By NORA THOMAS & SÍLE MOLONEY

By KEITH LOPEZ

As a father of three, a husband, and the son of a mother who raised me on her own, I know what it means to care for people. Day in and day out, I care for the students and staff at my job as a porter at St. John’s University, work to put food on the table at my humble West Farms, Bronx apartment, and to make sure my kids have a safe bed to sleep in at night. Because I care so much, the thought of having, for four more years, a president who clearly doesn’t care

By JOSÉ A. GIRALT

Traffic in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx was held up for more than half an hour at the start of the rally on Friday, Sept. 25. Horns blared as invited speakers addressed a crowd of more than 50 people who had gathered at the busy intersection of Bainbridge Avenue and Bedford Park Boulevard. There was no need to call the cops, however; they were already lined up for the Community March Against Gun Violence. Thomas J. Alps, deputy inspector of the 52nd precinct, told Norwood News before the rally the event had been organized to bring together

By AURÉOLE RIBES

On Sept. 17, the “2020 Virtual Healthy New York Summit,” took place. The aim of the summit was to examine the ways in which COVID-19 has and will affect New York State’s health care policies, innovation, and future. During the three-hour summit, health care decision-makers, politicians, and policy experts examined obstacles encountered to date in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, while also discussing solutions and suggested improvements to health care policy. Jon Lentz, editor-in-chief of City & State New York, opened the annual summit, emphasizing how the topic of health care policy is ever present, before introducing

By DAVID GREENE & SÍLE MOLONEY

Opponents of abortion arrived early on Saturday, Sept. 26, to Bronx Abortion GYN Services at 2070 Eastchester Road in the Indian Village section of the Bronx, but what was expected to be a single-issue protest quickly evolved into an all-out debate on a whole range of political topics and the upcoming presidential election. A handful of anti-abortion demonstrators quietly held signs across the street from the location while a separate group of nuns prayed a short distance away outside the clinic. A third group of pro-abortion activists stood in front of the clinic’s entrance, and provided safe passage to

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