NORWOOD RESIDENTS ARE confidently using this mailbox at the corner of East 207th Street and Perry Avenue after its swing flap was replaced with a slit cover to fend off so-called “fishing.” The scheme involved thieves feeding a lassoed bottle affixed with glue traps into the mailbox to fish out mail containing checks or gift cards. So far, this is one of three mailboxes with the new slit cover, with the second one found at the corner of East 207th Street and Decatur Avenue, and the third at the southeast corner of Jerome Avenue near Gun Hill Road. Mailboxes along East Gun Hill Road, between Jerome and Webster avenues, still have swing flaps, as do the other ones on Jerome Avenue between Gun Hill Road and Mosholu Parkway.
Photo by David Cruz
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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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