Just after midnight last Wednesday night, neighbors on Reservoir Place, a block away from Williamsbridge Oval Park in Norwood (and around the corner from the offices of the Norwood News), were disturbed to find a small army of cops and a group of Asians standing in front of a row house on the block.

When police arrived on the scene, Nino Ganan was still breathing and struggling for his life after being shot twice in his back and once in the leg. But by the time medics arrived moments later, the husband and father of two had succumbed to his wounds and died.

Subway riders looking to get home on the D train were turned away last Friday evening from Norwood down to at least Yankee Stadium following a death at the Fordham Road station.

The Bronx Museum of the Arts is to host Cuban avant-garde artist Quisqueya Henríquez for her first major appearance in the United States in an exhibit called The World Outside from Sunday, Sept. 16 through Jan. 27, 2008, with an open house Sept. 16 from 2 to 6 p.m.

Friends and relatives of the five Norwood siblings who were killed in a horrific car accident last month gathered Friday night to say final goodbyes at McCall’s Bronxwood Funeral Home on Bronxwood Avenue in Wakefield.

Looking back on his early life – cycling in and out of prison as a drug dealing, crack-addicted young hustler – Stanley Richards can still remember his Riker’s Island inmate number: 2418616600.

As the New York Times reported in July, Council Member Joel Rivera, 28, the Council’s majority leader, is planning to run for borough president in 2009, a decision that’s likely to put him on a collision course with close friend Assemblyman Ruben Diaz.

So far, Community Board 7 has received about 10 applications for the district manager position that’s been vacant since July 1. CB7 Chair Greg Faulkner said he expects to receive several more applications, especially since an advertisement for the position just went up on the city’s Web site a week and a half ago.

Congressman Eliot Engel introduced legislation to fight abuses in the calling card industry by requiring disclosure of terms and conditions on packaging.