Bedford Park

UPDATE Bronx Community District 7 Residents Disappointed with Delays in CB7 Parks’ Budget Requests

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Bronx Community Board 7 (CB7) Parks committee spent much of their September meeting discussing the district’s needs from a parks, recreation and cultural affairs perspective, in preparation for the City’s budget discussions next year. Since many of CB7’s capital and expense requests previously submitted last year to various city agencies have been pending for several years, some residents voiced their concern and frustration at the delays in actioning those requests.

UPDATE Bedford Park: Gas Rupture at 379 Bedford Park Blvd Results in 5 Minor Injuries, Gas Outages

By SÍLE MOLONEY, MIRIAM QUIÑONES & DAVID GREENE
Five people incurred minor injuries, according to FDNY officials, after a major emergency services response to a gas rupture was witnessed by residents at 379 Bedford Park Boulevard between Decatur Avenue and Webster Avenue in Bedford Park on Sunday, Sept. 22. Some gas outages are ongoing as a result and Con Ed said they were and will continue to be working to restore service to the affected residents and businesses throughout Sunday, overnight on Sunday, and into Monday.

Norwood: HPD Launches Housing Lottery Described as Affordable at 3056 Decatur Avenue

By SÍLE MOLONEY
NYC Department of Housing, Preservation & Development (HPD) has launched a housing lottery described as affordable at 3056 Decatur Avenue, a four-story residential building in the Norwood section of The Bronx, as reported by YIMBY. Designed by Node Architecture, Engineering, Consulting, and developed by Zef Perperpaj, the structure will yield nine residential units.

Driver Sought in Chain Reaction Crash 

By DAVID GREENE
Police are looking for a hit-and-run driver who veered out of his lane and collided with a truck in Bedford Park. A second vehicle then plowed into the back of the truck.

Inquiring Photographer: Thoughts on Arrest of DL Leader and BOE Employee Nicole Torres

By DAVID GREENE
After federal prosecutors recently announced that Nicole Torres, an NYC Board of Elections employee and a Bronx district leader in Assembly District 81, which broadly covers the northwest Bronx, was arrested for allegedly illegally demanding payments from Bronx residents to herself and to a local Bronx organization in exchange for selecting those individuals as poll workers, and for allegedly falsifying documents to fraudulently obtain poll worker paychecks, this week, we asked readers if they still had faith in the NYC Board of Elections ahead of November’s presidential and other general elections.