C-Rock from Eric Branco on Vimeo.
While we’re hard at working grinding out the next print edition of the Norwood News, take a look at this fantastic footage, set to an Arcade Fire song, of a Bronx/Riverdale right-of-passage: kids jumping off cliffs of various heights into Spuyten Duyvil Creek. It’s part of a documentary being developed by Jordan Roth and it just screams SUMMER! The Riverdale Press’ Adam Wisnieski wrote about the documentary and the tradition earlier this month. His story begins: “It’s called C-Rock. For generations, it has represented summer, freedom and a rivalry over who takes the steepest risks and who are the biggest wimps among local teens.” Enjoy.
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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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