Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe (3rd from right) was joined by a phalanx of Bronx elected officials and community representatives at Devoe Park on Aug. 14 to celebrate the re-opening of the park after extensive renovations. The park has new spray showers, seating, landscaping and play equipment. Three other Bronx parks also re-opened on the same day as Devoe: Story Playground, Soundview Park and Aqueduct Lands Playground. The total cost came to $14 million and comes out of a $200 million pool of mitigation funds related to the construction of the Croton water filtration plant in Van Cortlandt Park.
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Welcome to the Norwood News, a bi-weekly community newspaper that primarily serves the northwest Bronx communities of Norwood, Bedford Park, Fordham and University Heights. Through our Breaking Bronx blog, we focus on news and information for those neighborhoods, but aim to cover as much Bronx-related news as possible. Founded in 1988 by Mosholu Preservation Corporation, a not-for-profit affiliate of Montefiore Medical Center, the Norwood News began as a monthly and grew to a bi-weekly in 1994. In September 2003 the paper expanded to cover University Heights and now covers all the neighborhoods of Community District 7. The Norwood News exists to foster communication among citizens and organizations and to be a tool for neighborhood development efforts. The Norwood News runs the Bronx Youth Journalism Heard, a journalism training program for Bronx high school students. As you navigate this website, please let us know if you discover any glitches or if you have any suggestions. We’d love to hear from you. You can send e-mails to norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org or call us anytime (718) 324-4998.