Latest Edition of the Norwood News Is Out!

Hello Faithful Readers! The digital edition of the latest Norwood News, bringing you plenty of Bronx community news you can use, is out and hitting stands as I write. So many stories, it’s hard to know where to begin. We can start at the front page, with a missing persons case that’s rattled Bedford Park, Kingsbridge Heights and the Bangladeshi communities in the Bronx. Mahfuza Rahman, an aspiring nurse and mother, has not been seen since December. Police are now looking to question the husband, who flew back to his native Bangladesh with their 9-year-old daughter. Find out what representatives from

Eamonn McDwyer celebrated 50 years at the helm of his business, McDwyer’s Pub, at the corner of East 204th Street and Hull Avenue. Some bars in the Bronx have been under family ownership for longer, but McDwyer the barkeep says his is the only one that’s been managed by the same person for five straight decades. Known to regulars as “Eddie,” (Eamonn is Gaelic for “Edward”), McDwyer presides over his low-key, friendly watering hole like a watchful grandfather. He moves slowly from one end of the bar to the other, topping off a Guinness at the tap, and mixing cocktails

By DAVID CRUZ & DANIELA BEASLEY

With the whiny tunes of bagpipes bellowed throughout, Rambling House once again hosted an Irish Heritage Celebration that underscored the Bronx’s Gaelic heritage. [URIS id=20474]

(Advertorial) Financial Focus: Is Netflix Tax-Deductible?

By Staff of the Financial Advisors Group

Boy, this time of the year, the questions get wonderfully crazy for financial advisors during tax season. Boy I wish some of the Presidential candidates can hear some of these: “I just had my nails done, is this tax deductible?” * I had to take my friend to a concert because I owed him a favor. Can I write it off as a business expense or as charity?” Well, there are just too many “good” questions like this to answer them all in this article. But guess what? The IRS (and your representative in U.S. Congress) must be listening. Let us

Report: Missing Bedford Park Mom Could Be Dead

By DAVID CRUZ

Police have spent the last two weeks conducting an active search for a Bedford Park woman they say has been missing since December. Investigators have intensified the search after the woman’s husband and 9-year-old daughter flew to his native Bangladesh a week after the woman was reported missing. Across the Bronx, members of the Bedford Park community are now demanding the husband, Mohammad Chowdury, show himself to answer questions about the whereabouts of his wife, Mahfuza Rahman, last seen on Dec. 8 at around 4:35 p.m. Mohammed N. Mujumder, a lawyer immersed in the Bronx’s Bangladeshi community in Soundview, spoke at

By DANIELA BEASLEY

The Concourse Yards Development proposal is an innovative idea but not the first time that this airspace has been looked at to become something more for the Bronx. For years, a number of projects similar to Diaz’s current proposal languished in development, with starts and stops that cost the city millions, or ignored completely. It’s a fate that could or could not mar the proposals this time around. An original proposal dates back to 1961 when a plan to create a platform over the Concourse Yards in Bedford Park was proposed by Bronx Community College (BCC). The platform would have

By DAVID GREENE

Police are looking for an individual who stabbed a young man along in Bedford Park following a wild street brawl involving teen thugs. Officers from the 52nd Precinct and paramedics were called to 3201 Grand Concourse, at the corner of Van Cortlandt Avenue East, when they discovered the victim lying on the ground at 8:30 p.m. The suspect, meantime, fled. Offering few details, NYPD spokesman Detective Martin Speechley said, “The victim stated an unknown male stabbed him with an object in the back and he suffered a small laceration and we have no arrests at this time.” A spokesman for the FDNY the victim, believed to

At a low-income residence for the elderly in Kingsbridge, a resident opened their window one recent grey morning and plunged to their death, spattering on the pavement. The suicide, happening at the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Webb Avenue Residence directly across from the James J. Peters Veterans Administration Hospital, startled plenty of onlookers even as a security guard draped a white blanket over the body. Many began their work day with the disturbing image burned in their mind, and plenty of questions. The suicide wasn’t even a blip in the local media’s radar, except the Norwood News’, which made note

Police have begun an active search for a Bedford Park woman they say has been missing since December. Investigators have intensified the search after the woman’s husband and child have also vanished. Police have so far zeroed in on the small, two-story home the couple lived. On March 6, a cadre of investigators, officers and police dogs were combing through the home on East 198th Street off Jerome Avenue. It had been empty except for stacks of mail left unattended for months. In front of the home was a mound of dirt neighbors said was dug up by police. The missing