Fears That ‘Managed’ Medicaid Means Less Care

The letter came one day this winter, while 57-year-old Norwood resident Nilta Vazquez was still in the midst of recovering from an extensive spinal fusion surgery she’d had that fall. At the time, she was unable to walk on her own, and had a health aide helping her at home.

LGBT Activists Discuss Solutions to Bronx Intolerance

Through a series of town hall meetings and other public activities, advocates and organizers are working to promote lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender tolerance in the Bronx, a borough that gained a bad reputation for its intolerance last fall when a group of young adults in Morris Heights were arrested for viciously beating and sodomizing two youths and another man because they suspected the victims were gay.

Cabrera Bill Would Make Nabe Crime Stats Public

Addressing a public safety issue raised by the Norwood News, Councilman Fernando Cabrera has drafted legislation to require the New York City Police Department to share neighborhood crime statistics with community boards and the general public on a quarterly basis.

Weapon Found in Dumpster Alarms Residents

Norwood residents got a good scare Tuesday morning, when emergency vehicles arrived at a construction site at 3524 Hull Ave. to remove what they thought might be a missile. Found in a dumpster by workers at the building, it turned out to be an inert artillery shell, the NYPD said.

Fight Over Worship at Schools Puts U-Heights Church in Spotlight

When the leaders of Bronx Household of Faith, an evangelical Christian congregation based in University Heights, first approached the city, in 1994, about using its public schools to hold worship services, they didn’t think much of it. They certainly did not think they would find themselves, 17 years later, fighting for freedom of religion and speech as part of a back-and-forth legal case that could end up in front of the Supreme Court.

Reservoir Access Fight Escalates as BP Takes Lead

There’s a path around the Jerome Park Reservoir, just like the Central Park Reservoir. And while Manhattanites can run around theirs with a view of the water, Bronxites aren’t allowed to run and walk next to theirs and many are fed up.

Pride, Relief, and Uncertainty for Lehman Graduates

“Why does King Lear suffer? What is a neutron?” poet Billy Collins asked a crowd of 3,000 anxious graduates, proud parents, and supportive friends, during his speech at Lehman College’s commencement ceremony two weeks ago in Bedford Park. “It’s not about knowing the answers to these questions,” Collins said. “It’s about having the intelligence to know how to think.”

Teen Chefs Wage Battle for Better Health

Earlier this month teen chefs squared off in a final competition at Evander Childs Educational Campus. The program, sponsored by the Montefiore School Health Program, is part of its healthy eating initiative. Although the program is intended to promote good nutrition and healthy meals, it has not only transformed the way Evander students eat, but the way they connect with one another.