An unusually lively local race for Congress in the 17th District is getting livelier as incumbent Eliot Engel and challenger Kevin McAdams exchange jabs.

Natural floodplains will be restored to the Bronx River Forest just beyond the Allerton ball fields and French Charley Playground in Norwood, park officials and advocates announced last week. Construction began on July 12 and will take 12 to 18 months to finish. The results will benefit both wildlife and park visitors.

After eight years of reviving a major Norwood commercial area, the Jerome-Gun Hill Business Improvement District (BID) has been granted a five-year contract by the city to continue its work.

It appears that there is one final hitch in getting things going on the redevelopment of the Kingsbridge Armory. For the project to include schools, the National Guard units that occupy the buildings on the northern perimeter of the facility need to find another home.

Two months ago, the Norwood News sent a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request to the city’s Department of Environmental Protection. We simply asked for the feasibility study for the Kensico City Tunnel, a massive and important project that could have a significant impact on the cost of building the water filtration plant at Eastview in Westchester.

The City Council overwhelmingly approved a watered-down version of legislation to ban the sale of certain egregious car alarms. Advocates wanted a strict ban on all car alarms, but the mayor promised to veto even this weakened version.

On Friday, July 16, the entire block of East 207th Street between Bainbridge and Perry avenues was closed to all motorists – except those headed for the Church of St. Brendan. Police officers clustered at either end to admit vehicles, which double-parked in long rows lining the street.

In her over two decades teaching at city high schools, Norwood resident Pam Sporn has kindled her students’ love of learning in some unlikely places, such as the deep recesses of libraries, storage rooms and other far-flung locales.

Assemblyman Jeffrey Klein said today that he would make an announcement next Thursday concerning his position on the water filtration plant planned for Van Cortlandt Park.   Klein made the statement at a press conference in Woodlawn, where he received the endorsement of Council Member Oliver Koppell in his bid for the State Senate in the 34th District.   Several Woodlawn residents showed up at the press conference with signs protesting the plant, but they dispersed after Klein powwowed with Karen Argenti and Sally Regenhard, two opponents of the project.   After the two politicians spoke regarding the endorsement, the

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