Serving Norwood, Bedford Park, Fordham and University Heights NORWOOD NEWS Vol. 25, No. 21 ■ PUBLISHED BY MOSHOLU PRESERVATION CORPORATION ■ November 1 –14, 2012 Northwest Bronx Avoids Major Storm Damage Downed Trees Biggest Problem By ALEX KRATZ Shanta Nair-Kalia hunkered down in her Van Cortlandt Village home on Monday as Sandy, the much-hyped hurri - cane, built steam and swerved into the northeast as an “extra-tropical storm.” Although she lost power for about an hour on Monday afternoon, Nair-Kalia spent the rest of the night leisurely watching television and doing some “internet browsing.” The next day, with subway and bus service suspended, she walked to work at Montefiore Medical Center, where she is a patient care systems specialist, and snapped photos of fallen trees along the way. While the regions coastal areas, including the east Bronx, lower Manhattan, Long Island and the Jersey Shore, experienced massive flooding, extensive power out - ages and severe damage from the unprecedented rising tides, the northwest Bronx remained relatively unscathed. Most local residents spent the storm like Nair-Kalia, Photo by David Greene waiting it out without much hassle. WHILE THERE was scattered damage caused by fallen trees, like this car crushed on East 198th Street, the While 40,000 Bronx Con Edison customers remained northwest Bronx emerged largely unscathed from Super Storm Sandy compared to the coastal regions of the without power on Wednesday afternoon, the northwest northeast. See more photos on pages 8 and 9. Bronx experienced only a few pockets of short-term out - ages. Montefiore Medical Center’s Moses campus in Nor - wood, the area’s biggest hospital containing one of the Armory Market Plan Boosted by country’s busiest emergency rooms, remained open throughout the storm. More than 3,000 people in University Heights reported Community Rally Ice Out power outages on Tuesday, but only about 800 remained in (continued on p. 8) By LAUREN DUCA 7 meeting just a week before the rally. (continued on p. 10 ) Brian Boggan stood nervously in the press box out - Police Relations lined with tape on the side of the St. Nicholas of Tolen - tine School gym in University Heights. Boggan had come to a rally, organized by the grassroots Northwest Exposed in Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, with an opin - ion about plans for the long vacant Kingsbridge Armory. As a physical education teacher with a long history Council, Court of ice skating, Boggan was ready to defend the Kings - bridge National Ice Centers’s bid to fill the empty armory with nine ice rinks. and Class But no one from the ice center group showed up to receive Boggan’s support. As a row of empty chairs By BRITTNEY JACKSON and Coalition leader Alice McIntosh noted, the front- running bid to revamp the armory declined to attend The police department’s most controversial crime pre - the rally. vention strategies are coming under increased scrutiny The ice center group, which is headed by a former with politicians debating their merit and the court system Wall Street executive and supported by prominent ice ruling on their constitutionality. athletes including hockey star Mark Messier and fig - In the meantime, the question remains: Are tactics like ure skater Sarah Hughes, is one of two bidders hoping stop and frisk and Operation Clean Halls “putting a dis - to redevelop the armory. Photo by Lauren Duca tance between police and communities?” The other group, Young Woo & Associates, was in LOCAL TEACHER Brian Boggan talks with represen - That was a question addressed at “Crime and the Num - attendance at the rally. Both groups showed up to make tatives from Young Woo & Associates about their bers Game,” a lecture and discussion held at the Monroe presentations at a forum hosted by Community Board plans for the Kingsbridge Armory. (continued on p. 4) ■ General Election Guide, p. 2 ■ Church Break-In, p. 4 ■ The Storm Aftermath in Photos, p. 8 –9 www.norwoodnews.org 2 ■ November 1 –14, 2012 ■ Norwood News In The Public Interest Vol. 25, No. 21 General Election Preview New York Voting Norwood News is published Information bi-weekly on Thursdays by Nov. 6 is ELECTION DAY! Mosholu Preservation Corporation Polls are open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. 3400 Reservoir Oval East You will receive a postcard from the Bronx, New York 10467 Board of Elections telling you where to vote and your election district number. 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