Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. kicked off Bronx Week 2012 on Monday with a celebration and press conference at borough hall. As you can tell by the video above, the Beep is all kinds of fired up about this year’s event, hyping the borough’s assets and attractions with some help from Montefiore’s Nicole Hollingsworth (the medical center is one of the events chief sponsors) and jazz artist Valerie Capers, a Bronx Walk of Fame honoree. The Bronx Brewery, Mike Greco from Mike’s Deli on Arthur Avenue and borough historian Lloyd Ultan also make an appearance. At the same time, Diaz’s team released its Bronx Week television commercial (below), which features shots of the Bronx and the BP framed by swirling, psychedelic graphics that may or may not cause you to travel into the future. Bronx Week officially starts Friday, May 12 and culminates with parade and festival on Mosholu Parkway, Sunday, May 20. For a complete listing of Bronx Week events, click here.
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Welcome to the Norwood News, a bi-weekly community newspaper that primarily serves the northwest Bronx communities of Norwood, Bedford Park, Fordham and University Heights. Through our Breaking Bronx blog, we focus on news and information for those neighborhoods, but aim to cover as much Bronx-related news as possible. Founded in 1988 by Mosholu Preservation Corporation, a not-for-profit affiliate of Montefiore Medical Center, the Norwood News began as a monthly and grew to a bi-weekly in 1994. In September 2003 the paper expanded to cover University Heights and now covers all the neighborhoods of Community District 7. The Norwood News exists to foster communication among citizens and organizations and to be a tool for neighborhood development efforts. The Norwood News runs the Bronx Youth Journalism Heard, a journalism training program for Bronx high school students. As you navigate this website, please let us know if you discover any glitches or if you have any suggestions. We’d love to hear from you. You can send e-mails to norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org or call us anytime (718) 324-4998.
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