UPDATE: Kingsbridge Heights: Building Applications Filed with DOB to Expand 2835 Sedgwick Avenue to 4-Story Structure

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Building applications have been filed with New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) to expand an existing two-story, two-family structure into a four-story, residential building at 2835 Sedgwick Avenue in the Kingsbridge Heights section of The Bronx, as reported by YIMBY. Located between Perot Street and West Kingsbridge Avenue, the lot is a 7-minute walk from Kingsbridge Road subway station, servicing the D line, and a 13-minute walk from the 231st Street subway station, servicing the 1 train. Yaakov Lefkowitz of Lefko Capital Group is listed as the owner behind the applications. The proposed 54-foot-tall development will yield

By DAVID GREENE

One 45-year-old driver is dead, and a second driver is on the run after a fatal, early morning collision on Webster Avenue in the Morrisania section of the borough. A female spokesperson at the NYPD confirmed the 4:26 a.m. crash involving two moving SUVs and other parked cars at Webster Avenue and East 168th Street on Sunday, June 5, telling Norwood News, “On arrival, it was determined that a 45-year-old male was operating a Toyota Camry traveling westbound on East 168 Street, when the vehicle was struck by another vehicle traveling northbound on Webster Avenue.” She continued, “The

By EMILY SAWAKED

The following is an extended version of the story that appears in our latest print edition. The Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC) hosted a candidates’ forum at Monroe College on Wednesday, May 26, for candidates running in the 78th and the 81st Assembly Districts in the upcoming June Democratic primaries. Both Assemblyman José Rivera (A.D. 78), who was not present on the night, was re-elected to his seat in 2000, having previously served in the Assembly from 1982 to 1987 and who won in 2020 with over 86 percent of the vote, and Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz (A.D. 81),

By SÍLE MOLONEY

Building applications have been filed with NYC Department of Buildings (DOB) to expand a two-story, two-home structure into a seven-story residential building at 2073 Ryer Avenue in the Tremont section of The Bronx, as reported by YIMBY. Located between East Burnside Avenue and East 180th Street, the lot is two blocks from the 182nd-183rd Street subway station, serviced by the B and D trains. According to YIMBY, Aleksander Mici is listed as the owner behind the applications. The proposed 60-foot-tall development will yield 13,116 square feet designated for residential space. The building will have 23 residential units, most

By SÍLE MOLONEY

A 51-year-old man has been arrested following the shooting of a 34-year-old man in Wakefield. The man died following a gunshot wound to the head. As reported, police officials said that on Sunday, June 5, at approximately 8.39 a.m., officers responded to a 911 call about an aided man at Wilder Avenue and Cranford Avenue, within the confines of the 47th Precinct. “Upon arrival, officers observed a 34-year-old man inside a vehicle with a gunshot wound to the left side of his head. EMS responded and pronounced the man deceased at the scene,” they said. There were no

By DAVID GREENE

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) held a town hall on Friday, May 27, to discuss how the latest redistricting maps approved by a court-appointed special master on May 20, 2022, have impacted her constituents in The Bronx and Queens. As reported, the approval of the latest redistricting maps concludes a long and drawn out redistricting process, overseen by New York State Legislative Taskforce on Demographic Research and Reapportionment, which has been ongoing following the latest census in 2020. Referring to the latest approved map for NY-14 as of May 20, the congresswoman thanked all those who had joined the

By DAVID GREENE

A Bronx man has pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the grisly stabbing to death of a Olinville man, who was killed in 2019. The Office of the Bronx District Attorney, Darcel Clark, announced that Terrance Caudle, 33, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday, May 18, after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the death of O’Brian Maxwell, found dead in the stairway of his building at 3677 White Plains Road in Olinville, on Sunday, June 30, 2019. According to the prosecution’s investigation, Caudle “repeatedly stabbed O’Brien Maxwell, 30, in the neck inside the victim’s apartment

By JOSÉ A. GIRALT

Thousands of worshippers from Norwood’s North Bronx Islamic Center were looking forward to the annual, collective prayer service observance, known as Eid al-Fitr on the football field of Williamsbridge Oval Park to mark the end of Ramadan in May. The weather, however, forced them to move services indoors. The leadership team at the Islamic Center was forced to make alternate plans due to rainfall the night before the May 2 holy day. “We had permission [for Eid al-Fitr prayers] in Oval Park,” Mohammed Hussain, secretary of the North Bronx Islamic Center, told Norwood News. “But due to weather conditions,

By JOSÉ A. GIRALT

A steady stream of family members, friends, and fans fill up the Bronx Museum of the Arts one hour before the exhibit, “Eyes on the Street” opens for a private reception at 6 p.m., on Tuesday, April 5. The retrospective exhibit reviews four decades of photographs from Jamel Shabazz. “It’s a joy to be here in The Bronx,” Shabazz told Norwood News at the exhibit’s opening. “This great institution has always been so kind to me. It’s the Bronx Museum that gave me one of my most important shows about, maybe, 15 years ago…. They’ve always respected the work

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