By DAVID CRUZ
The latest, community-packed edition of the Norwood News is out with plenty of community news you can use. This is our month-long edition where we hope to keep you in the know with some community happenings taking place near you.
We first, however, go to Kingsbridge where tenants at a newly plush apartment building are getting soaked with a proposed rent increase as high as $500. Read what tenants and the building landlords have to say, and how elected are stepping in to get a handle on this. Check out another related story of a Creston Avenue landlord alleged to have ignored pleas from tenants to have their apartments fixed.
An editorial on page 2 emphasizes the need for upgrades of an abandoned lot. A picture featured on that page will tell you a lot.
And then of course, we have your Norwood News staples–Inquiring Photographer, Out & About, and The Bronx Beltway to name a few. Also, check out Montefiore Medical Center’s goal of signing up more people to be organ donors.
So check out 20 pages of this award-winning newspaper, and be sure to check us out on www.norwoodnews.org. If you want a hard copy you can visit one of the many stores, offices and other institutions that carry the newspaper.
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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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This is so sad what NYC is turning into, and now slowly and quietly but inevitably, even my beloved Bronx! I knew when I started to see trees being planted and improvements to highways, parks and buildings, expansion of businesses and foot patrol officers trying to get a grip on crime, and many more improvements around, that it wasn’t for the benefit of the people already living, paying taxes and making the Bronx what it is today. It wasn’t for the working poor, the minorities, the small business man, the single mother raising 3 boys into men on her own! …. And the stories of the struggles can go on and on. But they are our struggles and go hand in hand with the culture and character of the Bronx. The same people of the Bronx that have given so much culture are now being shoved out because of greed.
(http://www.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/educationandculture.p…)
Instead rents are increasing to outrageous figures. If you read further in this article from the Norwood news you will see a Social Worker cannot even afford these rents. This is someone who has gone to college got her degree and still cannot afford to live even in the so called “horrible Bronx.” The borough’s reputation is to most on the outside, that of a negative view. The same people who are like “Oh we are going to Yankee stadium IN THE BRONX…”‘ like they are on some daring brave mission, are the same ones coming and frigging taking over the buildings, forcing people out of their homes by making it financially unfeasible to stay (UM do I pay my rent or not eat for the month?… decisions, decisions) WORKING PEOPLE! Of course crime is going to go up and things are going to get out of control. By the time you pay your light bill, taxes, carfare, health insurance, food (maybe) and any other various everyday necessities who the hell has 2500 a month left to pay rent? It is out of control!! Where are the laws to help??? Rent stabilization has so many loopholes to it that the regular person can even understand. Some lawyer’s don’t even understand!
Come on our government elects ! YOU ARE RUINING NYC…….. I am utterly disgusted! So all I can do is rant on this page and then look to the Lord and wait, because at the end of the day these people in supposed power will have to answer to him!