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October 26-November 7, 2018 Proudly Serving Bronx Communities Since 1988 3URXGO\6HUYLQJ%URQ[&RPPXQLWLHV6LQFHFREE 3URXGO\6HUYLQJ%URQ[&RPPXQLWLHV6LQFHFREE ORWOODQ EWSQ NVol. 27, No. 8 PUBLISHED BY MOSHOLU PRESERVATION CORPORATION N April 17–30, 2014 Vol 31, No 21 • PUBLISHED BY MOSHOLU PRESERVATION CORPORATION • OCTOBER 25-NOVEMBER 7, 2018 ORWOODQ EWSQ NVol. 27, No. 8 PUBLISHED BY MOSHOLU PRESERVATION CORPORATION N April 17–30, 2014 FREE INQUIRING PHOTOGRAPHER: SEE PICTURES: NORWOOD NEWS 30TH ANNIVERSARY | PG. 4 JGHBID FALL FESTIVAL FESTIVITIES | PG. 14 TENANTS: REPAIRS NOW Water Issues at NW AT NEW STAGG BLDGS. Bronx Buildings | pg 5 Opened in 2016, Webster Avenue buildings show signs of decay Armed Robbery at Norwood Bodega pg 8 Cohen Pledges Frisch Photo by David Cruz Field Fix ZXAVIER SIMPSON STANDS across from The Bedford Manor at 2985 Webster Ave., where quality of life, he says, has dropped. pg 9 By JOSEPH KONIG and he says they have been nonre- some Bronx apartment build- Renewal. DAVID CRUZ sponsive and unhelpful. ings, dilapidated by neglect Community stakehold- Zxavier Simpson moved “No one ever answers the and time. But Bedford Park ers have their own concerns from Harlem in 2016 into 2985 calls,” Simpson said. “The Manor opened just three with The Stagg Group, who Webster Ave., one of two build- maintenance [workers] come years ago and is run by The have become increasingly ac- ings in a complex dubbed in and take the garbage out. Stagg Group, an omnipres- tive in Bedford Park and Nor- “Bedford Park Manor.” Less They don’t mop. They don’t ent construction and realty wood. The firm is set to open than two years later, he’s fed clean… It’s like we’re just here firm with over 150 properties “Norwood Gardens” on East up with the flooding, bro- and they’re just collecting in the Bronx alone. The Bed- 203rd Street and Webster Av- ken elevators, loose wires, money.” ford Park Manor properties enue. and squatters that plague his Shoddy living conditions were built with partial fund- When Mark Stagg, CEO building. Simpson wants more and uncommunicative land- ing from the state’s Division of the Stagg Group, called pg 18 effort from his landlords, but lords is hardly abnormal for of Housing and Community (continued on page 23) 2 • October 25-November 7, 2018 • Norwood News IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST By DAVID CRUZ Vol. 31, No. 21 Vol. 27, No. 10 Blake Announces PA Run the Charter Revision Commission. 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