It Takes a Village…..

In November 2011, I was traveling solo on a train across China from Shanghai in the east, to Xian in the northwest, and although they have high-speed trains in China (5km faster than Japan’s Shinkansen, not to be outdone) the only train I could book on that day was one on a regular service, which was something like a 17-hour ride. About three-quarters of the way there, the train broke down for several hours. Unfortunately for me, I don’t speak Chinese.

Saying Goodbye to an Institution I Once Led

It’s going to be hard to imagine The Bronx without the Norwood News. Through its near 40-year history it was a paper that fought for its residents, producing high-quality news that arguably made the borough a better place to live. It also served as an entry point to tomorrow’s journalists.

Farewell to Norwood News from State Sen. Gustavo Rivera

It is with great sorrow that I write this message. For almost 40 years, the Norwood News has been much more than a newspaper. It has been a trusted source for so many communities in the Northwest Bronx including Bedford Park, Kingsbridge Heights, Fordham, and Norwood.

Farewell to Norwood News from Council Member Eric Dinowitz

Throughout its decades-long run, the Norwood News has served as a trusted source for hyper-local news. They have reported on housing, transportation, small business, and more. The news is always about our community and about us.

Farewell to Norwood News from Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson

For almost four decades, Norwood News has served as a pivotal source of information and a vital resource for our Norwood community through grassroots hyperlocal reporting. Norwood News has been with us through the good, the bad, and everything in between, with an unyielding commitment to showcasing the people behind the headlines.

Farewell to Norwood News from Council Member Pierina Sanchez

For nearly 40 years, Norwood News has done something essential for our local democracy: ensuring that the people, challenges, victories, and everyday life of the Northwest Bronx are seen and remembered. This loss is personal for me. Norwood News was the first newspaper to write about my first-time candidacy for the New York City Council, helping reintroduce me to the community that raised me, and that I was seeking to represent.

Farewell to Norwood News from State Sen. Robert Jackson

For nearly four decades, the Norwood News has done something increasingly rare and deeply necessary: it has paid attention.   Through generations of change in the Northwest Bronx, it has chronicled the lives, struggles, victories, and everyday realtities of Norwood, Bedford Park, Jerome Park, Kingsbridge Heights, Fordham, University Heights, and surrounding communities.   It understood that a neighborhood newspaper is more than a record of events. It is a place where communities speak to one another, where institutions are held accountable, where residents see their concerns treated with seriousness, and where the work of building a stronger neighborhood becomes part of the public record.   That mission


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Farewell to Norwood News from Assemblyman George Alvarez

For many years, the Norwood News has been far more than a local newspaper. It has been a trusted voice, a community record, and a reflection of the people, families, businesses, schools, and organizations that make The Bronx, particularly the neighborhoods within our district, so special.