My name is Robert Lopez. I’m a longtime Norwood resident. When I first moved to Norwood by Gun Hill Road and Jerome Avenue, the neighborhood was mainly middle class, working folks. It was a very desirable, quiet and convenient place to live with mass transit and shopping around the corner. Fast forward to the present, I am sad to say that within the past five to six years, and despite some nice curb-appeal improvements like new street trees and renovated parks in Norwood, I have noticed the working class fleeing out of Norwood in disgust of what the neighborhood is becoming as the working class in Norwood is slowly being replaced by people on public assistance, Section 8, HASA and other city subsidized programs. Of course I am not saying all subsidized people are low-class. However, as we all know, the "bad apples" ruin it for the good ones. It is these "bad apples" that I refer to.

High School football is back in full force across the Bronx. Here’s a quick roundup of all the latest scores and highlights from our local teams in the northwest Bronx.

State Senator Pedro Espada, Jr. met with leaders of the Jerome-Gun Hill Business Improvement District (BID) on Saturday, Sept. 12 to discuss economic development opportunities and community needs.

This past summer, national clothing chain American Eagle Outfitters gave $9,000 in funding to the Mosholu Preservation Corporation’s horticultural program to aid the Parks Department in cleaning, beautifying and maintaining parks in the community.

The Norwood News’ arts, entertainment and recreation guide for our readers in the northwest Bronx and beyond.

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In a sharp break from his predecessor’s lenient approach to development in the borough, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz has applied the brakes to a city-backed proposal to turn the Kingsbridge Armory into a shopping mall.

Reconfirming long-held beliefs by local watchdogs and activists, the city comptroller’s office released a report recently saying that, from the beginning, the Croton Water Filtration Plant being built in Van Cortlandt Park has been, and continues to be, a huge, money-eating disaster.

Pedro Espada Jr.’s new district office, eight months in the making, sits seven floors above the street in a swank office building on Fordham Road. It’s beautiful. New carpeting, new paint job. Giant photos of the controversial Bronx State Senator adorn the back wall. One shows Espada wearing a suit and red boxing gloves.

It’s a fitting image because the pugnacious Espada – his ringtone is "Eye of the Tiger," a song made famous in the "Rocky" films – literally fought his way into this office