Dear Fellow Readers!

The latest edition of the Norwood News, covering the northwest Bronx, is out with its latest edition for 2018. We welcome you to check out plenty of stories featured in this fresh edition.

We begin, of course, with page one and a story involving a community garden and one headstrong neighbor who refuses to throw in the towel. Read about Elizabeth Carson and her quest for governance at Risse Street Garden. Also, get a sense of how the agency tasked to bring order to community gardens is handling this.

Inside the cover you’ll find a recap of the New York City Council’s vote that approved the rezoning of 92 blocks of Jerome Avenue, paving the way for affordable housing and investment. Read why opponents from the other side are up in arms over the vote.

In the pages of the Norwood News you’ll find our two specials once again: Housing Matters, where we look at specific housing issues impacting the city. This time we’re focusing on how housing segregation goes hand in hand with an unfortunate result of it: school segregation. We then have our second special, The Bronx Food Fight, a collaboration with WFUV Radio and BronxNet Television. This week, reporter Rowan Hornbeck looks at the existing dichotomy between discarded food that’s edible at a time when a quarter million New Yorkers are starving every day.

We then have stories ranging from the Jerome Gun Hill Business Improvement District’s project for an art installation at the Grand Concourse and Mosholu Parkway, coverage of a fire in Norwood that displaced several families, and a neat photo spread of MMCC’s annual SpringFest. Definitely worth a read.

As usual, we have the regular staples–Inquiring Photographer, Neighborhood Notes, Health Check, and Out & About–all intended to make you the smartest person in the room.

So check out the latest edition of the Norwood News, and be sure to me some mail at dcruz@norwoodnews.org. We always enjoy hearing from our readers and what they have to say about this great paper.

Until next time!

David Cruz
Editor-in-Chief, Norwood News