Show Aimed at Teens, Run By Teens

With only minutes until show time, production assistants untangle wires, set up props, and position lighting equipment. In a corner, a handful of newscasters huddling to review their scripts shout across the room for pens and make last-minute changes.

It’s a scene typical to any television newsroom, but this one in particular happens to be staffed and run entirely by teenagers.

Summer Camp Guide

The Norwood News guide to local summer camp options for parents and kids.

Knights Slayed in City Final

The Kennedy Knights boys hoop squad, playing for the Bronx and the memory of fallen teammate Andre "Pops" Davidson who died last summer during a pickup game, could only hold off the Lincoln Railsplitter juggernaut and history for so long.

Out & About

The Norwood News arts and entertainment calendar. Find out what’s happening in the Bronx.

Neighborhood Notes

A listing of classes, services, programs and community events for our readers in community district 7 and throughout the Bronx.
Supportive housing is not a facility, but rather permanent affordable apartments with on-site services, including case management, mental health services, substance abuse counseling, and employment programs, to homeless, disabled and at-risk New Yorkers. Supportive
Last Wednesday, the city approved a proposal that could lead to $17.8 million in tax breaks for the Related Companies, the developer that plans to transform the massive landmarked Kingsbridge Armory into a shopping center.

For the Kingsbridge Armory Redevelopment Alliance (KARA), the decision was a setback. The Alliance hoped the agency would postpone its decision until Related committed to negotiating a community benefits agreement.
Ozzie Brown looks at the oil-drenched industrial stretch of Webster Avenue and sees a completely different future for this wide corridor that runs parallel to the Bronx River.

The Department of City Planning, working closely with Brown’s committee and the whole board, have drafted a plan designed to bring in new apartment buildings, stores and businesses on Webster, between Fordham Road and Gun Hill Road.
After nearly three years of debate and delay, a Comfort Inn is slowly rising on Webster Avenue. But the project is once again on hold because of a partial stop-work order due to unapproved steel work and a fight with neighbors over property boundaries.