Financial Focus: Work? Rich in Money or Rich in Life?

Neighborhood Notes: Free Immigration Service

By PROF. ANTHONY RIVIECCIO, MBA, PFA

So what is the purpose of work? To take care of yourself? To take care of family? To build a career? Is having a job the same as a career? And does it provide you the same satisfaction? While you think I might be talking about today’s gig economy, I was actually thinking about the entrepreneurship wave that took place in the 1980s and 1990s. From former President Ronald Reagan’s supply-side presidency, to former President Bill Clinton’s workers throughout the nation were getting hired, albeit with low wages, watching the new technology of the 1980s and 1990s slowly start to

By DAVID GREENE

This week we asked readers if former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a chance at securing the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. Yes, I do think he’ll get the nomination because he’s a billionaire and he knows politics; he’s been involved; he was a good mayor. But the stop and frisk policy for the NYPD was very questionable. The only thing he’s good at is being a businessman, which would help with jobs and help developers. There wouldn’t be much difference between him and [President] Donald Trump. Shirley Velasquez Mount Eden I think he can win

Inquiring Photographer: Thanksgiving Thoughts

By DAVID GREENE

This week we asked readers their plans for Thanksgiving, what’s on the menu, and how they hope to spend the day. Well, my plans are to visit my sister, her husband and family, and my other sister and her husband and family up in White Plains. I’ll have some turkey and watch the football game. It’s either Dallas or Detroit. And of course will have all the trimmings. Robert Rowe Morrisania I’ll probably be at home. Yes, I hope to be eating on Thanksgiving Day; my vegan Thanksgiving with Portobello mushrooms and cranberry-orange relish and cauliflower rice and a glass

By PROFESSOR ANTHONY RIVIECCIO, MBA, PFA

When one is on Social Security, their “raise” or cost of living adjustment, is usually tied in to a federal measurement called the Consumer Price Index or CPI. So, when one looks at the CPI measurement coupled with Social Security recent 2020 announcements show, in our opinion, national troublesome wage stagnation while enjoying a helium balloon type economy. First, a little back history. CPI measurements showed in 2012 that the CPI, was 3.6 percent, the highest in several years prior. Since 2012, the measurement has continued to trickle down. In 2018, the CPI was at two percent. Our new government

A Special Report on the Vanishing Homeowner, Railing Against Express Bus Service Cuts: Latest Edition of the Norwood News is Out!

By DAVID CRUZ

Dear Fellow Readers, The year’s twenty-third edition of the Norwood News is out with 28 pages packed full of news from this corner of the Bronx. Let’s begin with page one! Our top story looks at the problem of homeownership in the Bronx, or the growing lack thereof, with more and more limited liability companies snatching up one- to four-family homes across the borough. The Norwood News spent two months delving into the topic, and we’ve got some interesting findings to share. Inside the cover you’ll read a piece on a Norwood man’s mission to change the way the prison

By PROFESSOR ANTHONY RIVIECCIO, MBA, PFA

Over the course of the last several years in New York City we have seen a moving change in our citizens and the way they are voting. We have become, as some would say, much more progressive than in any time in our city governance. Others would say we are going back in time! Yes, an oxymoronic moment has taken place this election season! We have gone back to the future! Think of Abbott and Costello’s “13 x 7= 28” bit (or go to YouTube). But the following math really does add up to 28, and it’s called ranked-choice voting.

By DAVID CRUZ

Dear Fellow Readers, The year’s twenty-second edition of the Norwood News is out with plenty of community news stories to read and share. We have 28 pages packed full of news from this corner of the Bronx, so let’s start with page one! Our top story focuses on what’s happening at Bronx Community Charter School on Webster Avenue. There, students took on an ambitious project to understand the neighborhood of Norwood, the players and the issues. Read about one student, Blessing Owusu, who delved deeply into the controversial topic of gentrification. It’s a true story of the power of community

Opinion: A Love Letter to the Bronx Should Serve as an Inspiration

By DAVID CRUZ

For anyone who hasn’t had the chance to catch HBO’s documentary, The Bronx, USA, I have two words: see it. For 90 minutes you’ll be spellbound by the essence of the Bronx, captured beautifully in this dazzling documentary that follows famed Seinfeld producer George “Georgie” Shapiro, and his Bronx buddy Carl Golub, who travel back to Norwood, embracing its halcyon past. The documentary is a parallel story of sorts, with a portion of the documentary dedicated to Shapiro’s adolescent days in Norwood (strangely, the neighborhood isn’t referred to as Norwood, but “the neighborhood”) and the other to a group of

Inquiring Photographer: Early Voting in New York City

By DAVID GREENE

This week we asked readers their thoughts on early voting, allowing them several days to cast a ballot ahead of Election Day. I was aware of it, and I think it will help a lot of people. I’m used to going on Election Day; I’ve been doing it for 40 years, so I will continue to do it on Election Day. But it’s convenient for some people who can’t vote because it’s late, or they rush, or some people don’t take it seriously. Now some people will say they have time before the big day, so it’s convenient. Melvin Roseborough