El Rinconcito opened its glass doors to the public around six weeks ago. Since then, the restaurant has been serving breakfast, lunch and dinner and delivering quality Latin food to the surrounding Bedford Park area.

For the first time in 10 years, holiday lights can be seen running along Kingsbridge Road. With help from Senator Pedro Espada, support from local merchants, and backing from the Montefiore Medical Center (and its affiliate, the Mosholu Preservation Corporation, the publisher of the Norwood News), both Kingsbridge Road and Gun Hill Road-Jerome Avenue business districts will be receiving more resources this holiday season.

A listing of arts, entertainment and recreational events for all our readers in the northwest Bronx and beyond.

A listing of programs, services and events for our readers in the northwest Bronx and beyond.

Despite meeting face-to-face on at least two recent Saturdays, the Bronx City Council delegation and the Related Companies are not budging on the issue of living wage in the Kingsbridge Armory redevelopment project. This standstill might just be the kiss of death for the development, which could be voted on by two Council committees as early as Thursday, Dec. 3.

The day before Thanksgiving, the Lutheran Church of the Epiphany in Norwood, as it does every year, opened its doors to provide a free hot meal for anyone in want of a filling turkey dinner.

"The Lord tells us to feed the hungry and to give drink to the thirsty," said Pastor Robert Rainis

Bronx community activist Desiree Pilgrim-Hunter left the Federal Reserve’s foreclosure forum at New York’s Trinity Church earlier this fall feeling frustrated. As a member of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, she and other local leaders had pressed the Fed for greater consumer protections and lender accountability.

The Fed had listened, but Pilgrim-Hunter just wasn’t sure that they were doing much else.

One by one, six tearful mothers and fathers stepped up to a podium on Nov. 23 in a candlelit room at the Bronx County Courthouse. With trembling voices, they told the crowd about their murdered children. The vigil, hosted by Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., was part of the National Day of Outrage.

It was a sight unseen along the Grand Concourse for more than two years: a buoyant throng of people waiting in line outside the iconic Loew’s Paradise Theater. Braving a steady rain and defying a dreary economy, nearly 3,000 people turned out for the reopening of the classic theater on Oct. 24.