Latest Edition of the Norwood News is Out!

By DAVID CRUZ

Dear Fellow Readers! The latest edition of the Norwood News is out with plenty of Bronx news to spread around. We’ve packed 12 pages of original reporting by our talented rotation of reporters we hope you’ll find insightful. For now, let’s begin with page one and a long-awaited project. That project falls in the heart of Norwood, Williamsbridge Oval Park. It’s there where a ceremonial groundbreaking of the highly anticipated skate park took place to the pride of many stakeholders involved. Read the city Parks Commissioner’s comments on this latest project. Read also why some will view this project as

Dear Fellow Readers, The latest edition of the Norwood News, covering Bronx communities, is out this week! Check out these stories put together by our dedicated interns and freelancers aiming to get the conversation going across the Bronx. Our page one story focuses on the perennial issue in the Bronx–barbecuing at areas that bar the practice. Community Board 7 is once again getting ahead of the issue and is pressuring the Parks Department to have those “No Barbecue” signs where they’re supposed to be. Read mixed feelings behind this issue. Behind the cover story is another parks-related story, this time focusing

Editorial: Bruised Confidence in Our Public Officials

The evidence against former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was overwhelming. It was for him too. In less than three hours after four women gave their accounts to New Yorker Magazine of alleged abuse, he was gone. Along with his career. The article detailed moments when their bodies were so badly damaged they needed medical attention. Compounding that hurt was the subsequent mental torment that came after many told them to stay silent. Some of them included women. Along with the bruised women allegedly at the hands of Schneiderman is a bruised confidence in our elected officials. Just who are they

By PROF. ANTHONY RIVIECCIO, MBA, PFA

So what is inflation? In simple terms, it is prices going up. In longer term measures, it is defined as a sustained increase in the general level of prices for goods and services in a county, and is measured as an annual percentage change. Put differently, as inflation rises, every dollar you own buys a smaller percentage of a good or service. How do we measure it: through a tracking stock called the Consumer Price Index (CPI). According to our government, the Bureau of Labor Statistics uses this CPI value to track inflation on a monthly and annual basis. According to

By DAVID GREENE

This week we asked readers their thoughts on the dramatic changes to the weather as well as plans for the unofficial start of summer. I don’t know, you just have to dress for this crazy weather, that’s the best way to deal with it. I think we’re going to get a very hot summer. I’m a music artist, so I’ll be working on my music a lot over the summer and I’ll make a record. Other than that, the summer is all about the family. Eli Staxx Norwood I don’t even want to talk about it. Yesterday it was mad

By DAVID CRUZ

Dear Fellow Readers, The latest edition of the Norwood News, covering Bronx communities, is out this week! Check out these stories put together by our dedicated interns and freelancers that can get the conversation going across the Bronx. We begin, of course, with page one! The uncommon fatal shootings of two people in the Norwood section of the Bronx prompted it to be our front page. Read the story of 37-year-old Dwayne Saunders, shot to death in broad daylight. Read what the local commander for the 52nd Precinct has to say about these rarer homicides in Norwood. Other stories include the

Neighborhood Notes: Free Immigration Service

By VNSNY

Cramped apartments, amazing skyline views; train delays, a city that never sleeps; suffocating crowds, neighborhoods bursting with cultural diversity – New York City is a place of extremes and our lifestyles and careers are often shaped and impacted by its unique benefits and challenges. For NYC homecare nurses, the adage “There’s No Place Like Home” rings especially true as the communities where they live and work have an enormous impact on the way they deliver care to the city’s most vulnerable populations. May 6th through 12th is National Nurses Week, a time set aside to recognize the men and women who dedicate their

By PROF. ANTHONY RIVIECCIO, MBA, PFA

Did you know that President Donald Trump and the federal government are ready to tear down ten years of financial law. So now your financial representative does not have to work “in your best interest”? Last month, a federal court stuck down a portion of the Dodd-Frank Act that applied to “retirement” plans. While the law allows the Securities & Exchange Commission to govern, because they have been absent to respond, the government, through it’s Department of Labor and ERISA laws put the fiduciary doctrine in place to protect America’s retirement plans. Now, with the court shutting down the law

By DAVID GREENE

With the naming of Stan Brezenoff as interim chairman of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), we asked residents at local housing complexes the specific problems in their buildings and solutions to the bureaucracy of living in a city-run housing complex. The staircases look like crap. I’ve been here 14 years and they were messed up since I got here. We have rats and mice running around. Maintenance is not doing their job and the residents don’t really care as long as they make it through another day. It’s terrible here. Joseph Liborsi Fort Independence Houses (Kingsbridge) They