The Norwood News has been on the grind all day putting together this week’s print edition of the paper. Look for it in northwest Bronx community centers, medical offices, pizza shops, bodegas, banks and libraries starting tomorrow afternoon. In the meantime, here’s a link to an AM New York Q&A with occasional Norwood News op-ed contributor Gregory Lobo Jost. A Norwood resident who is the deputy director of the University Neighborhood Housing Program, Jost talks about the state of the Bronx.

One quick snippet:

AM New York: Why is the Bronx our nation’s poorest urban county?

Jost: We’re the last part of New York City to offer affordable housing, but we also have the highest concentration of people who pay more than half their income on rent. Wages stagnated while housing costs continue to rise. Combine those forces with red lining and disinvestment and you get high rates of poverty. The people who could afford to leave, left. The people here are working: they’re just not making very much money.

Also, a quick reminder:

The Department of Transportation is holding a workshop to discuss traffic and pedestrian safety around Williamsbridge Oval Park on Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 7 p.m. at Mosholu Montefiore Community Center, 3450 DeKalb Ave. For more information, call (718) 933-5650.