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JULY 6-19, 2017 ORWOODQ EWSQ Nvol Proudly Serving Bronx Communities Since 1988 3URXGO\6HUYLQJ%URQ[&RPPXQLWLHV6LQFHFREE 3URXGO\6HUYLQJ%URQ[&RPPXQLWLHV6LQFHFREE ORWOODQ EWSQ FREE NVol. 27, No. 8 PUBLISHED BY MOSHOLU PRESERVATION CORPORATION N April 17–30, 2014 Vol 30, No 14 • PUBLISHED BY MOSHOLU PRESERVATION CORPORATION •JULY 6-19, 2017 ORWOODQ EWSQ NVol. 27, No. 8 PUBLISHED BY MOSHOLU PRESERVATION CORPORATION N April 17–30, 2014 INQUIRING PHOTOGRAPHER: SEE PHOTOS: STATE OF AMERICA | PG. 4 OPEN HOUSE AT FIVE-TWO | PG. 9 DOWNZONING FINDINGS REVEALED G&T Report Out | pg 2 Report fi nds Bedford Park and Kingsbridge Heights can be downzoned Kingsbridge Step Street Gets $6M Fix pg 7 Police Up Patrols at St. James Park | pg 11 Photo by Adi Talwar JOHN REILLY AND his wife Lois Harr stand across the street from their private home at East 202nd Street in Bedford Park (left). The couple hopes a report supporting downzoning of the neighborhood can prevent construction of a much taller building two houses down (right). By DAVID CRUZ be assessed before submitting clip in Bedford Park had espe- board convenes again. Even At its June 14 meeting, them to the city. cially prompted the study. then the city would have to Community Board 7’s Land For Lois Harr, a resident “Time is running out,” give final approval of any zon- Use/Zoning & Housing Com- in Bedford Park, the motion Jean Hill, committee chair, ing changes, which could take mittee approved the findings represented a victory in pre- said at the meeting. “So we months. This offers a window of an independent study that venting further construction need to jump on it.” for developers to continue its would limit height restric- of high-rise properties in Bed- But even as the commit- sweep of Bedford Park and tions on new buildings in two ford Park and Kingsbridge tee approved the results, it Kingsbridge Heights, neigh- Bronx neighborhoods, despite Heights, the two neighbor- still needs the full board’s borhoods where two-story the study’s author recom- hoods studied. Concerns of approval, which won’t hap- homes abound. pg 14 mending more neighborhoods overdevelopment at a rapid pen until September when the (continued on page 15) 2 •July 6-19, 2017 • Norwood News IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST Vol. 30, No. 14 Vol. 27, No. 10 NorwoodVol. 27,News 27, No. No.is 10published 10 bi-weekly on Thursdays by Bronx BP Releases Report on G&T Inequity Fix MosholuNorwoodNorwood Preservation NewsNews is Corporation ispublished published (MPC) Norwood3400 Reservoir News Ovalis published East bi-weeklybi-weekly on on Thursdays Thursdays by by bi-weeklyBronx, New on YorkThursdays 10467 by MosholuMosholuPhone: Preservation 718 324 Corporation 4998 Corporation Mosholu Preservation Corporation 34003400Fax: Reservoir 718 324 Oval Oval2917 East East E-mail: [email protected], Reservoir New York 10467Oval East Bronx, New York 10467 Web.:Bronx, www.norwoodnews.org New York 10467 Phone: 718 324 4998 Fax: 718 324 2917 Publisher Phone: 718 324 4998 E-mail: [email protected]: 718 324 4998 Mosholu PreservationFax: 718 324 Corporation 2917 Web:Fax: www.norwoodnews.org 718 324 2917 ExecutiveE-mail: [email protected] Director of MPC E-mail:Web: [email protected] www.norwoodnews.org Melissa CebolleroWeb: www.norwoodnews.org Editor-in-Chief,Publisher NorwoodCEO, Mosholu News DavidMosholu Cruz, Preservation [email protected] 3UHVHUYDWLRQ Corporation Corporation PublisherAccounts Receivable CEO, Mosholu PublisherEditor-in-Chief RobertoCEO, S. 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