Here are the Bronx news stories we’re following this week.

— The Fordham Road Business Improvement District (BID) in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx is seeking to include 12-story office building, One Fordham Plaza (1FP) within the District, the Bronx Times reports. 1FP, which may bring retail stores including Famous Footwear, Starbucks, and Party City, has already agreed to the expansion and is now finalizing the agreement.

— According to a recent New York City Department of Health survey, 1 in 3 people in the Bronx suffer from diabetes, the Riverdale Press reports. A total of 650,000 Bronx residents are plagued with the condition, with the average rate of diabetes cases in Riverdale and Kingsbridge at 7.3 percent, the highest rate in Fordham-Bronx Park at 14.6 percent, and an overall increase in rates nationwide.

–– The New York Daily News reports that acoustical consultant, Benjamin Sachwald, recently determined that City Island in the Bronx is the quietest spot in the city’s five boroughs, with the sound level recorded at 38 decibels, the lowest in NYC in 10 years. The average city block reaches between 60 and 70 decibels and trains in the outer boroughs can hit 90 to 95 decibels when rounding a corner. According to Community Board 10, which represents the City Island, Throgs Neck, and Pelham Bay, of the 1,292 noise complaints filed, only 145 of them were from the isle.

— Bronx News 12 reports that a Bangladeshi street fair was held for the first time in Norwood. The event, which was sponsored by the North Bronx Bangladeshi American Association, filled Decatur Avenue with live music, colorful clothing, and local cuisine.

— 17-year-old Clyve Norman died last Friday after attempting to jump from across a 10-foot gap between two apartment buildings in Concourse Village, The New York Daily News reports. The teenager jumped from the top of 1055 Findlay Avenue onto a neighboring building, when he missed and fell into an alleyway below. He was rushed to Lincoln Hospital with severe head trauma but later pronounced dead.

— A group of art students from Hostos Community College in the South Bronx are competing to have their work displayed on the scaffolding of a 149-year-old church in Murray Hill, NY1 reports. The winning designs will cover four exterior banners on the scaffolding of the Church of the Incarnation while officials try to raise $1 million to repair the church’s spire.

–– The Bronx Times reports that Bronx Assemblyman Mark Benedetto is calling for the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority and the NYPD to prevent motorists from cutting into the Throgs Neck Expressway near the Throgs Neck Bridge tolls by taking the exit ramp near Harding and Pennyfield Avenues. Benedetto called the practice “unacceptable” and “outrageous,” citing the dangers of potential accidents.

— The New York Daily News reports that the parents of Ramarley Graham, 18, who was shot to death last year by NYPD officer Richard Haste, will travel to Washington, DC this weekend for the 50^th anniversary of the March on Washington. The officer, who chased the teenager into his home, was not indicted in the shooting although federal prosecutors promised to review the case earlier this year to determine if Graham’s civil rights were violated.

— Congressman Eliot Engel, Senator Jeff Klein, Senator Adriano Espalillat, Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, Community Board 8 gathered at the College of Mount Saint Vincent last Thursday to protest the construction of a 143-foot LG Electronics office tower, the Bronx Times reports. Local politicians and activists argue the $300 million dollar project, north of the George Washington Bridge, would violate height restrictions and disturb Bronx views of the New Jersey Palisades.

–– The New York Daily News reports that activist and Assemblyman Samuel Bea has died at the age of 80 after struggling with a long illness. Bea attended the first March on Washington, served as Community Board 12’s first district manager in 1977, and was later elected to the Assembly in 1996. A wake will be held on Aug. 31st at the First Baptist Church in Bronxville from 9 to 9:30 a.m.