Following the conclusion of an internal investigation, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Jun. 26 that 17 uniformed Department of Correction staff will be charged for their conduct surrounding the death of 27-year-old trans woman, Layleen Polanco, at Rikers Island in June 2019. As reported recently by Norwood News, Polanco, according to earlier […]
As the 15th Congressional District race gets closer to its midpoint, it’s at this point (or perhaps even sooner) where Democratic candidates have laid out a platform they hope can resonate with voters of the district that covers virtually the entire Bronx. The Norwood News reviewed all the positions of confirmed candidates to that were […]
A street renaming in the memory of a dead man was unveiled on his birthday. “To Kalief, I want to say happy birthday to him. My brother would’ve been 24 today,” Dion Browder said of his late brother, Kalief Browder. With a blue tent shielding him from punishing rain, Dion was joined at the street […]
Jose Cotto, living a seemingly solitary life on Decatur Avenue for the last several years, replays the circumstances leading to his mother’s death, Santa Torres, at a hospital in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. She died June 6, 2014, a day after undergoing simple surgery on a fractured hip from a fall while seeing her […]
On Election Night, the Norwood News stood glued to the results of voter returns in the race for Bronx District Attorney, a contest rife with political intrigue wrapped in rarity. The news of an actual race, the first in 27 years following the long tenure of borough District Attorney Robert Johnson, could have spurred a big […]
By JASMINE GOMEZ “I can’t take it anymore,” were the words Kalief Browder, a 22-year-old Bronx man, uttered to his mother, the night before he hanged himself on June 6 from his home.
Happy Friday, lovely readers, we're back with another edition of the Bronx News Roundup. Here are the stories we're following today, starting with the weather forecast: Cool, rainy, high of about 70. Weekend should be very nice, with lots of sunshine and temperatures in the low 80s. Enjoy.
The first time I walked out of the Mosholu Parkway No. 4 train station - well before I worked for the Norwood News - something clicked. I was instantly drawn to Jerome Avenue and its throngs of shoppers, workers and high-schoolers. This was a nice place. Perhaps I'd come back. I did - over 1,000 times. In my four years at the Norwood News, I've written about 603 stories. We've run roughly 254 of my photos. I have managed production on 98 issues, gone through 22 notebooks (140 sheets each), and attended dozens of meetings. My thousand-plus days working here have been busily consistent. They have never been dull.
I knew what was ahead of me when there were no screeching sounds on Tuesday morning. The No. 7 subway track looms outside my bedroom, and the trains emit a hair-raising noise when they go around my bend in Long Island City, Queens. It was eerily quiet at 8 a.m., as it would be for the next three days of the transit strike.
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