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Editorial: The Armory Vote a Year Later

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Editor’s note: the following editorial is from the most recent edition of the Norwood News, which is out and online now. It’s the one-year anniversary of the nearly unanimous City Council vote that scuttled the mayor’s juggernaut to stuff a cookie-cutter mall inside the landmark Kingsbridge Armory. In that time, the city’s two tabloids, the New York Post and the Daily News, have taken every opportunity to whack at Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. for his opposition to the project, which gave the necessary juice to a community and labor-backed effort to defeat it in the City Council. Regular readers know where we stand on this, but as long as the editorial boards of the city dailies continue to harp on this, we are compelled to reiterate our position. For more than a decade, community organizations led by the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition hammered out plans for a remake of the facility that made room for recreation, community programming, small businesses, a movie theater, etc.

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Freilich Jewelers Featured on Bronx Ink

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The Bronx Ink, a news site produced by students at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, has this video profile on Norwood jeweler Allan Freilich, whose family has been in the local jewelry business for decades. Their store is on E. 204th St., between Perry and Hull Avenues.Keeping the shine, Even in hard times from Connie Preti on Vimeo.

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Bronx News Roundup, Dec. 23

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A tree that was salvaged from the rubble of the World Trade Center after 9/11, and nursed back to health in Van Cortlandt Park, was once again planted back at Ground Zero. The tree’s homecoming coincides with yesterday’s passage of a bill that will give health benefits to 9/11 responders.