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INQUIRING PHOTOGRAPHER: Meet Norwood’s WILL COUNCIL BILLS HURT NYPD? | PG. 4 Barman | pg. 3 SHELTER MIX COMING

Torres Empowers TO CB7 BORDERS Young People | pg 2 Affordable Housing/Shelter Hybrid in Univ. Hts. Conflicts With Vision

Be Healthy: World Diabetes Day at NCBH | pg 6

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Photo by Adi Talwar COMMUNITY BOARD 7’s Land Use/Housing Committee hear from Muzzy Rosenblatt (gesturimg, right) of Bowery Residents Committee, outlining plans for a rare affordable housing/homeless shelter in University Heights.

By DAVID CRUZ tions of the people who live Residents Committee (BRC), Road, near the Fordham Hill When Jean Hill heard a in [the developer’s] backyard. a 43-year-old homeless shel- senior housing complex. The developer’s plan to build its ‘Have you had any problems ter and social service pro- committee heard from BRC latest shelter proposal, the with them? Is everything ko- vider. The -based on Nov. 18. idea of a fact-finding visit to sher?’” said Hill, serving as group outlined its plan to “We’re not proposing to Business Beat: the developer’s other sites Community Board 7’s Land build a 150,000-square-foot, do anything that we haven’t quickly surfaced. After all, Use/Housing committee $62 million affordable hous- already done,” said Muzzy Diaz Jr. Lobbies she’s poked around other chairwoman. ing/shelter building at 233 Rosenblatt, BRC’s executive Beauty Biz sites before. In this case, the latest site Landing Rd. in University director. Though its flagship | pg 11 “We do go out, ask ques- under review is the Bowery Heights, off West Fordham (continued on page 11) 2 • Nov. 27-Dec. 10, 2014 • Norwood News IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST

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By Anton K. Nilsson with orange juice, and beer-and- At McDwyer’s on East 204th a-shot are the most popular drink Street, time passes slowly. Little has choices of the nightshift crowd. Cus- changed in this old school Irish bar tomers who stop by during the day, since it opened in 1966. It comes off as or on weekend nights, usually enjoy Bronx’s own McSorley’s, Manhattan’s a game of pool with their drink. Oth- oldest bar, only with relics from the ers play the pinball machine or watch entire second half of the 20th century a sports game on one of the bar’s 10 instead of from the 1800s. Eighties TV sets. sports memorabilia—showing sup- Bainbridge Avenue used to be the port for The New York Mets, and The city’s prime barhopping lane, McD- New York Yankees—line the walls. wyer said proudly. “If an Irishman A poster from the 1980 Winter Olym- arrived to New York by plane and pics, depicting the U.S hockey team’s someone asked him, ‘Where to?,’ he victory over the Soviet Union, reads, would answer, ‘Bainbridge.’” McD- “4 to 3—An American Dream.” wyer can recall dozens of Irish bars And after 48 years, one can expect that used to be his competitors, but Eamonn McDwyer still behind the which have now closed: “Fiona’s, bar. In a pinstripe dress shirt, tie, and Artie Smith’s, the Village Pub, the suspenders, the 77-year-old evokes Phoenix, Mill Town…” The list goes the friendly but gruff nature of an old on. school bartender. He will yell at a de- McDwyer stays in business liveryman for leaving the back door thanks to his persistence and hard open, or answer the phone with five Photo by Anton K. Nilsson work, as well as a loyal clientele. consecutive yells of “Hello?” followed Eamonn McDwyer (pictured) behind the bar he has tended since 1966. “People are thirsty. But I wish they by “What do you want?”—and the were thirstier,” he said. next minute, turn to a regular and of- morning. Just keep going, keep going, up the bar and welcomes a trickle of Editor’s Note: Read up on some fer a Budweiser on the house. never give up,” he said. “Never throw graveyard shift workers who come to of Mr. McDwyer’s stories on the online Work keeps him young, McDw- in the towel.” enjoy “a few cocktails” before hitting version of this story. Just go to www. yer said. “It’s what gets me up in the At 8 a.m. each day, McDwyer opens the sack. Scotch on the rocks, vodka norwoodnews.org. 4 • Nov. 27-Dec. 10, 2014 • Norwood News INQUIRING PHOTOGRAPHER By DAVID GREENE This week we asked readers if proposed legislation changing NYPD policies (i.e. police requesting those stopped if they can be searched, no arrests for people carrying 25g or less of marijuana, and limiting chokeholds) will help or hurt their fi ght on crime and violence, or police and community relations.

I believe that the police have Personally, I don’t think it will have Yes, they say you’re allowed I do not like what they’re doing If a chokehold needs to be used, many options, and if you stop much of an effect. At the end of the to carry up to an ounce [of now because all they are thinking then use it, but a lot of these one action, they have many day, people are going to smoke marijuana], but I’m still scared to about are themselves. Meanwhile cops use excessive force and more. I don’t think it will stop the weed and cops are going to put walk with a bag in my pocket. But they are out here hurting people don’t know how to keep their cops from inventing something people in chokeholds because hopefully it will get better. Most of and thinking it’s okay. It’s not OK. self-control and they overdo different. They’ll have options they feel they have a need to the people out here do it because Life is hard and times are bad. Half everything. It will look more like where they can come up to you, sometimes. Making weed legal they have issues. I do it and I have the people out here are smoking the police are actually trying to search you and throw something is cool for the people who smoke some issues and it helps to calm marijuana for a reason. help people rather than hurt them. in your pocket. weed and it might be easier for me down. Ebenita Taylor It’s a complicated issue. Mortee Shannon Garrett the cops because they no longer Sanjay Thirkapersaud Parkchester Fabian Pascal Kingsbridge have to arrest those people. Middletown, NY West Farms Cynthia Perez Morris Park

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By DAVID CRUZ Naloxone to revive users, an initia- Nearly 50 people streamed inside tive pushed by Assemblyman Jeff a cafeteria at a church basement in Dinowitz. But the campaign largely the South Bronx for a meeting. Hand- targets young middle class users, the shakes followed by hugs and kisses new demographic of heroin users. opened the gathering that would last The second heroin epidemic, as 90 minutes. Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget The signs of fellowship are the Brennan views it, really appears to usual standards at Narcotics Anony- refer to other parts of the city where mous. Judgments are left at the door. heroin has never been this preva- Sorrow is there but not dwelled upon. lent. It simply seems accepted in the Humility is forthwith. Coffee brews Bronx. in the back. Multi-colored pamphlets Statistics by the New York State on the program are organized neatly Office of Alcoholism and Substance on a table. Users know the first step Abuse Services (OASAS) show that to recovery is admitting they’re an the same high risk areas in the year addict. At a church in Morrisania, 2000, mainly neighborhoods with the confession is even more cathar- high poverty rates such as Hunts tic. In the Bronx, the scene is played Point, Morrisania, Mott Haven and out in community centers, housing Photo by Anton K. Nilsson Melrose, overlap with the same high projects and other houses of wor- THOUSANDS WALK INTO the doors of VIP Services in Tremont, yearly, many of them risk areas of today. ship—survivors looking to hit the heroin addicts in the Bronx. The stubborn 2010-2013 numbers reset button. by the Health Depart- Mainly middle-aged African- reputation over the years has led Cuomo administration intended to ment also indicate a problem that Americans and Hispanics were the Office of National Drug Control tackle the problem have been intro- has not sprung overnight—heroin, present, pouring out their souls on Policy to label the Bronx a High In- duced in recent months, including as many experts and users confirm, how much drugs consumed them. tensity Drug Trafficking Area. expanded availability and usage of has stood the test of time. For several, heroin was their drug of Its presence in the borough has choice. consistently led to the most heroin Heroin, by many measures, has overdose deaths in the city, accord- remained a constant in the Bronx, a ing to 2010-2013 statistics by the New borough that’s made some headway York City Health Department. Even in revamping its identity. more telling is that Hispanic men But unlike Staten Island, which aged between 35 and 54 are most vul- has seen a recent uptick of heroin nerable to lethal heroin overdoses, use due to prescription drug abuse, according to figures. In 2013, His- the heroin crisis has long shot into panic men contributed to 65 percent the vein of the Bronx, immersed in of heroin overdoses, a spike from the Mott Haven tenements, the outskirts year before, when the rate was 56 of Hunts Point (a “shooting gallery” percent. dubbed the Brickyard is known by This is the state of heroin in the many users there) and in private Bronx. homes where heroin is stashed, And if these commonplace statis- packaged and trafficked to northern tics are a metric for 2014 trends, es- states. The origin of heroin comes timates will likely once again show from Colombia’s Sinaloa cartel, sell- that the Bronx is suffering from the ing the drug to Mexican traffickers most lethal heroin overdoses even who use the Bronx as a hub and mar- as media attention focuses on Staten ketplace. Island and Long Island. Experts sug- “What we’re finding is where 15 gest that Hispanic men will once to 20 years ago [Drug Enforcement again be the most likely to die from Agency] in New York was arresting an overdose even as steps from the a lot of Colombians dealing, we’re state level are working to quell the now arresting a lot of Mexicans deal- problem. ing heroin,” said Acting Special Agent-in-Charge James Hunt with A Decades Long Problem the Drug Enforcement Agency. In recent years, heroin use has Some users often convert their risen throughout the boroughs, but homes into drug dens, charging ad- in the Bronx, the problem has never dicts $2 to use in their home. Its quite laid dormant. Initiatives by the 6 • Nov. 27-Dec. 10, 2014 • Norwood News

HowPercentage much of ofa person’s Fordham life Vital residents with diabetes. Stats Be Healthy 33%14.6 is(Source: dedicated New York City to Health sleep. Department) World Diabetes Day at NCBH Focuses on Preventive Care

By JANAKI CHADHA borough is particularly affected by dia- Standing in front a crowd of diabet- betes. According to a 2013 report by the ics at North Central Bronx Hospital, New York City Department of Health, instead of speaking on curbing the Fordham-Bronx Park, the Northeast disease, Dr. Gayotri Goswami took an and the South Bronx were among the unusual route and backtracked even city neighborhoods with the highest before the disease’s onset: pre-diabe- number of diabetics. tes. She spoke on the ignorance of this “Patients complain to me all the early stage and the high percentage of time when I teach them about the pre-diabetics who will develop diabe- types of food they should eat. They say tes in the near future. that those foods are too expensive in “We have a huge support system the borough,” said Junor. “I tell them, for diabetics at the hospital, but I don’t if all you can afford is a head of lettuce think anybody is talking to pre-diabet- Photo by Janaki Chadha for one dollar, get it and fill half the ics,” Goswami told the Norwood News. DR. GAYOTRI GOSWAMI (left) of North Central Bronx Hospital talks of the benefits of plate with that.” A major illness nationwide, diabe- pre-screening for diabetes. Carmen Moolah, an NCBH patient, tes has a significant presence in the has been a diabetic for 25 years. The Bronx. In honor of World Diabetes Day Miriam Junor, a registered nurse struction of their eyes, their heart, disease ran in her family; her father on Nov. 14, NCBH held an awareness who has been a Certified Diabetes Edu- their kidneys. And therefore, we don’t died from it. But it is only recently that event where physicians, patients and cator for almost eight years, explained have to spend billions of dollars on di- she’s heeded the warning on what dia- educators gathered to spread the word the long-term importance of catching alysis, eye exams, amputations, and betes can do, thanks to support groups on care, control, and prevention. Along the disease early on and teaching pa- other destruction caused by the dis- and classes she attends at the hospital. with speeches, the event included tients on how to regulate it. She noted ease.” “I have to keep trying,” said Moolah. “I zumba sessions and opportunities for that “educated patients are much more Because of the Bronx’s large low- know I have to do more of the work to patients to share their stories. likely to know how to prevent the de- income and minority populations, the get it down.”

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Vol 27,ORWOOD No 22Q • PUBLISHED BY MOSHOLU PRESERVATION CORPORATION • NOVEEWSQ MBER. 1 3 - 2 6 , 2014 N     PUBLISHED BY MOSHOLU PRESERVATION CORPORATION N     seeks a freelance GUN VIOLENCE FEARS INQUIRING PHOTOGRAPHER: PLAGUE BEDFORD PK. | PG. 3 WHAT YOU WANT FROM POLS | PG. 4 advertising sales ST. ANN’S CHURCH rep to help grow Solving The Cramped Schools FACES CLOSURE Problem | pg 2 the Bronx’s Parishioners told to join St. Brendan’s Church best community Be Healthy: Montefiore Opens Bed-Free Hospital | pg 6 newspaper. Applicants must Business Beat: CPR Training Breathes in Photo by adi talwar Wakefield | pg 9 be self-starters FATHER PAUL LEADS MASS at the Shrine Church of Saint Ann’s at 3519 Bainbridge Ave. in Norwood, one of six Bronx churches slated to close by August 2015.

By MICHAELA ROSS y e a r . sadness and many, many ques- services forces congregants to Tears and questions echoed St. Ann’s parishioners will tions,” a tearful Scanlon told worship elsewhere. from the pews of Norwood’s now have to celebrate Masses his parish at weekend Masses. The announcement came with some sales Shrine Church of Saint Ann, and sacraments alongside the The merger is slated for Au- after a five-year archdiocese commonly known as St. Ann’s, congregation at St. Brendan gust 2015. initiative called Making All located at 3519 Bainbridge Church on East 206th Street, The wording of the archdio - Things New, which evaluated Ave., as Rev. Francis Scanlon according to a letter from the cese’s letter is slippery--consol- parishes with dwindling at- announced last weekend that Archdiocese of New York Car- idation or merger is simply eu- tendance and financial woes. Out&About the Catholic church will close dinal Timothy Dolan. “I read phemisms for closure, intended Last May, archdiocese officials pg 10 for regular worship by next this letter to you with great to soften the blow. The lack of (continued on page 11) experience Email resumes to [email protected] Nov. 27-Dec. 10, 2014 • Norwood News • 9 BOOK YOUR HOLIDAY PARTY NOW!

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One and 21 at 4 p.m. in the Ross Hall; • The Mosholu Library, 285 E. 205th sponsored by the Jerome-Gun Hill BID is on Dec. 3 from 5 to 7 p.m. at and Holiday A Cappella, Saturdays St., offers for adults Knitting Circle Greenstreets Park on Jerome Avenue and Mosholu Parkway North (info: and Sundays at 1:30 and 3:30 at 3 p.m.: Dec. 4 and 11. For more (718) 324-4946); and the other sponsored by Community Board 7 is on p.m. through Jan. 18. For more information, call (718) 882-8239. Dec. 11 at 6 p.m. on Mosholu Parkway and Bainbridge Avenue (info: information, call (718) 817-8700. (718) 933-5650). •The Jerome Park Library, 118 • The Lehman Center for the Eames Place (near Kingsbridge Performing Arts, 250 Bedford Road), offers for kids: Active Health Onstage schedule of events including tours Pk. Blvd. W., presents Viennese at 4 p.m.: Yoga and zumba, Dec. 5; and walks, call (718) 549-3200. Christmas by the Hollywood and Chess Program: Learn to play, • The Bronx Library Center, 310 E. Concert Orchestra, Dec. 6 at 8 p.m. Dec. 9 at 4 p.m. (both for ages 5 to Kingsbridge Rd., presents Music: Holiday Events (tickets are $15 to $25; $10/12 and 12); and Toddler Time at 11 a.m.: Bronx Songwriters Showcase, under). For more information, call Dec. 10 (for ages 18 to 36 months). (718) 960-8833. Teens/young adults can enjoy fi lm: featuring singer and jazz trio, Nov. • The Bronx Arts Ensemble presents Dec. 11 at 3:30 p.m. Adults can 29; and Celia Cruz H.S. Orchestra Holiday Concert: Music for St. attend: Computer Basics Open Lab in Concert: Dec. 6; both at 2:30 Nicholas, Dec. 6 at Van Cortlandt Library Events at noon: Dec. 4 and 11. For more p.m. For more information, call (718) House Museum, VC Park, Broadway information, call (718) 549-5200. 579-4244/46/57 or visit www.nypl. near 246th Street; and Dec. 13 • The Bronx Library Center, 310 org. and 14 at Bartow-Pell Mansion E. Kingsbridge Rd., presents for HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL Museum, 895 Shore Road, Pelham children: Preschool Story Time at OUR READERS! Events Bay Pk; all at 1 and 3 p.m. Free 11 a.m.: (ages 3 to 5 years), Dec. tickets are available online at 4 and 11; Toddler Play Time at NOTE: Items for consideration may bronxartsensemble.org or send a noon: (ages 18 to 36 months), Dec. • Williamsbridge Oval, 3225 be mailed to our offi ce or sent to self-addressed stamped envelope to 4 and 11; Tree Ornament Making: Reservoir Oval E., presents Seniors [email protected], St. Nicholas Day Festival, c/o Bronx (ages 7 to 12), Dec. 4 at 4 p.m.; and Fitness Fest, free fi tness and and should be received by Dec. 1 for Arts Ensemble, 80 Van Cortlandt Magnet Magic: (ages 5+), Dec. 6 at computer classes, entertainment the next publication date of Dec. 10. and giveaways, Dec. 4, 10 a.m. to Park South, #7D-1, Bronx, NY 10463 2 p.m. Teens/young adults can enjoy 2 p.m. Senior membership for ages (specify number of tickets; limit 5 62+ is $25 for gym, computer and per order). For more information, call fi tness; adults ages 25 to 61 is $50/6 (718) 601-7399. months or $100/year. For more information, call (718) 543-8672. • Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, 895 NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES Shore Rd., Pelham Bay Pk., presents • Van Cortlandt Park Conservancy’s on Dec. 5: Holiday Luncheon, Reunions on the Trail, invites the 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.; and Music Toy Drive public to its 5K Run or Walk, Nov. and Refreshments, 5:30 to 8:30 The annual Bronx Youth Empowerment Program toy drive runs until p.m. ($12/adults; $10/seniors/ 28 at 10 a.m., at the Tortoise & Hare Dec. 17. Toddlers and teens living in the 12th Council District can receive students; free/members); on Dec. Statue ($25; $15/ages 7 to 12; free/ a gift. Donations can be dropped off at the office of Council Member Andy 6: Annual Holiday Family Day: A under 6. Preregistration is required King, 940 E. Gun Hill Rd. For more information, call (718) 684-5509. at vcpark.org. For more information, Storybook Christmas, 10 a.m. to write [email protected]. 1 p.m., including storytelling (10:15 a.m. and noon), glee club at 11 Medical Supply Drive • Wave Hill, a Bronx oasis at 675 a.m., professional photos with Santa New York State Senator Gustavo Rivera needs help to gather medical sup- W. 252nd St. in Riverdale, offers ($20), and crafts (full day: $20/1+ plies such as surgical face masks, disposable surgical gowns, etc. to treat Family Arts Projects: Harvest Time years; $15/member children; free/ Ebola patients in Sierra Leone. Drop off location is Rivera’s district office, Hangings, to gather leaves and adults/kids under 1 year; Holiday 2432 Grand Concourse, suite 506. The supply drive runs until Dec. 1, Monday Party, including cocktails, caroling, cones and weave them with other thru Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, call (718) 933-2034. materials to create a decorative holiday fare buffet dinner, and more, wall hanging, Nov. 29 and 30; and 7 to 10 p.m.; on Dec. 13: Holiday Holiday Coat Drive Seasons Greetings, to draw tales for Candlelight Tours and Victorian The annual New York Cares coat drive runs until Jan. 1, 2015. Anyone pop-up holiday cards, Dec. 6 and Carolers, 6 to 8 p.m. , includes wishing to donate a gently used coat for anyone of all ages can drop it off at 7; both in WH House from 10 a.m. snacks ($12/adults; $10/seniors/ to 1 p.m. Grounds admission is free students/members). Reservations Congressman Eliot Engel’s office, 3655 Johnson Ave. For more information, until noon Saturdays and Tuesdays are required for each event. For call (718) 796-9700. all year. For more information and a more information, call (718) 885- 1461. CPR Training School Breathes to Life in Wakefi eld Nov. 27-Dec. 10, 2014 • Norwood News • 11 Shelter Housing Roils CB7 Members

(continued from page 1) shelter contract. purchased 320 W. Fordham Rd., a rant and storage facility, was written shelter residence in the Flatiron Dis- “By building a shelter with the large parcel abutting the University about extensively in the ULI report trict also holds affordable unit apart- housing, we generate enough income Heights Metro-North station. The as a potential bridge deck. It would ments, this is the first BRC will serve to stay in the project but to make the BRC project would be a block away. extend above the Major Deegan Ex- as a developer. housing work as well,” said Rosenb- One source, who asked to be un- pressway, and the Metro-North The proposed nine-story build- latt, adding that loans from the Hous- named because they were closely tied tracks, connecting to the waterfront. ing will house 135 units—111 studio ing Development Corporation, tax with the Bronx Department of City The bridge would be built within the apartments that rent for $450 per incentives and private monies will Planning office, said DCP is “bang- 10 to 20 year benchmark, according to month, and 24 one- and two-bed- finance the project. ing its head over” the project given the report. room affordable housing apartments the report’s conclusion. The conten- Felix Ciampo, the executive di- marked at $1000. Homeless single men Long Term Plan tion reveals a disconnect between rector of ULI in New York, said, “We who are employed and are screened But the proposal also seems to different visions for the future of Uni- don’t think our recommendations are by caseworkers from the Department conflict with a long-term vision for versity Heights. in conflict with this proposed site of of Homeless Services’ central in- University Heights, which the De- But Rosenblatt, citing BRC’s resi- Landing Road.” take center will occupy the first two partment of City Planning pegged as dence in the Flatiron District, con- The ramp is part of a complete floors. The rest of the units will be set a frontier for economic and residen- tends the shelter won’t interfere with neighborhood overhaul, with mixed- aside for rent-paying tenants already tial development. Its conclusion was the overall residential upgrade. “Our use housing peppering the commu- living in the Bronx, said Rosenblatt. largely due to the community’s prox- project is compatible, like we are nity, though Rosenblatt and his as- Separate entrances will be installed. imity to the barren Harlem River wa- in the Bowery,” said Rosenblatt. A sociates were leery over whether a The project is a rare hybrid pushed terfront, which could be transformed Whole Foods and $20 million Avalon bridge deck was even feasible. by the de Blasio administration in its into a vibrant vista given substan- Bay condominium complex surround The meeting wrapped with Hill continued efforts to increase its af- tial investment. The findings were the shelter. “Our development of the asking to see the Bowery site, which fordable housing stock to poverty- released in a study compiled by the site compared to the way the site is to- Rosenblatt welcomed. The visit will stricken New Yorkers. Over the sum- Urban Land Institute (ULI) over the day will only enhance the attractive- offer the committee a better look at mer, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced summer. ness of the neighborhood.” how BRC operates, said Hill. a lofty 10-year plan to create or repair Contributing to the neighbor- “They look friendly, but everybody 200,000 affordable housing units. One hood’s revision is the possibility A Marquee Lot always shows up looking friendly,” method involves the affordable hous- of a $30 million mixed-use housing Landing Road is the site where the said Hill. “When you come to their ing/homeless shelter model, such as site listed by Massey Knakal, repre- facility would be built. The dead-end house and look at how they live, you BRC’s, which is vying for a 30-year senting an anonymous owner that street, hugged by a nightclub, restau- have a better feel for it.”

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their bottom line. Diaz Jr. assured the Diaz Jr. Lobbies city will penalize appropriately. The bill is modeled after a city res- Beauty Biz Over taurant grading system installed in Regulation Bill 2009. -- KASIA ROMANOWSKA

Bronx Borough President Ruben Jerome-Gun Diaz Jr. took his bill on grading the beauty industry directly to cosmetolo- Hill BID to Bring gists at a Lehman College symposium Nov. 18. The bill would allow the city Holiday Sparkle to rate every city barbershop, salon and spa, hoping problem spas clean up On Dec. 3 their act. Though it was introduced in September by the bill’s sponsor, Brook- Santa Claus is coming from the

lyn Councilman Rafael Espinal, no ac- North Pole to hand out free gifts to Photo by Kasia Romanowska tion has been taken. children and their parents at the third BRONX PRESIDENT RUBEN DIAZ JR. (at podium) pushes for a new letter grade “The proposals we put forward to- annual Holiday Tree Lighting Cer- system for salons and spas. day will go a long way towards ensur- emony, organized by the Jerome-Gun ing that the people of this city have a Hill Business Improvement District. lit up. “It’s in the park, so there’s a place clean and safe atmosphere to get their “We’re going to design a nice Christ- Hosted by “La Reina del Barrio,” for kids to sit, but normally people hair done, to get a manicure or pedi- mas theme around Santa Claus,” said Rhina Valentin, guests can expect a stand around the stage dancing and cure, or any of the other practices Marcia Cameron, the BID’s executive live DJ, carolers, free hot chocolate, singing,” said Cameron. typically found in spas and beauty es- director. The venue takes place Dec. 3 gift-wrapped presents and a raffle bas- Elected officials and community tablishments,” said Diaz Jr., who regu- from 5 to 7 p.m. in Greenstreets Park, ket loaded with BID merchandise. Last leaders will also take part. For more larly visits spas himself. at the corner of Jerome Avenue and year up to 300 families gathered for the information call the BID office at (718) Beauticians fear any new fines in- Mosholu Parkway North. It’s there sparkling event, with this year expect- 324 4946 or visit www.jeromegunhill- curred by the new rankings can hurt where a natural pine tree awaits to be ing a higher turnout. bid.org. --KASIA ROMANOWSKA