Monte Nurse Book Drive

A group of nurses at Montefiore Medical Center held a book drive this holiday season, collecting children’s books to distribute at one of the hospital’s children’s health clinics.

Kappy Heads Downtown With One Foot in Boogiedown

The Daily News’ Bob Kappstatter, who writes the popular political news and gossip column in the paper’s weekly Bronx Boro News section (get your copy on Tuesdays), is leaving his longtime role as the News’ Bronx bureau chief to chase down citywide police and crime stories.

2010 Year in Review: Espada Loses Seat; Freedom Next?

If 2010 was a terrible year for Pedro Espada, Jr., the soon-to-be former state senator, then 2011 could be even worse. In April, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a civil suit, charging that Espada had used Soundview HealthCare Network, the nonprofit he founded and runs, as a “personal piggy bank.” He stole $14 million, the suit alleges, spending it on family trips, restaurant bills and, famously, take-out sushi delivered to Espada’s Westchester home.

2010 Year in Review: Armory Fight Spawns Legislation, More Task Forces

If 2009 was the year the city finally voted on a proposal to redevelop the enormous and vacant Kingsbridge Armory, then 2010 was the year everyone tried to figure out the significance of the City Council deciding overwhelmingly, one year ago, to kill a Bloomberg-backed plan to mold the Armory into a shopping mall.

2010 Year in Review: After the Fires, Frustration

For many Norwood-area residents and merchants, 2010 was a frustrating year as the community struggled to rebound from two devastating fires that left a gaping hole in the heart of a thriving shopping district.

2010 Year in Review: Discovery H.S. Gardeners Remake School Lunch

A group of Bronx students are helping to lead a green revolution right out of their own classroom, growing their own herbs and vegetables as part of gardening program at Discovery High School, on the Walton Campus in Kingsbridge Heights. The project is the brainchild of Steve Ritz, a longtime public school teacher who decided to incorporate some real life plants into his earth science and biology classes, rather than have his students read about them in a book. Before long, the classroom was the garden, and his students now grow their own herbs and vegetables in tall, vertical planters they keep in the back of the room.

2010 Year in Review: Violent Crime Rises in City, Borough, Precinct

If you look at the latest statistics published by the NYPD for the 52nd Precinct — which encompasses the entire Norwood News coverage area — overall crime is down by less than one-half of one percent. But even that miniscule drop in crime is deceiving. The Five-Two was hit hard in 2010; by a barrage of murders, a significant rise in felony assaults (including shootings) and rapes, as well as a string of robberies that rocked area churches in late fall.

2010 Year in Review: Tolentine on Mend After Suspicious Fire

St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church, on University Avenue and Fordham Road, is still rebuilding this winter after a two-alarm fire severely damaged much of the parish’s front vestibule in March. “It’s progressing,” said Father Joseph Girone. “It looks like it could be done by Easter, and we’re looking forward to having something to really celebrate then.” Girone said Fire Department officials are still investigating the cause of the fire, which broke out the morning of March 5 and appeared to have been set deliberately because of its intensity and how it quickly it spread, Deputy Fire Chief Kevin Scanlon told the Norwood News at the time.