Webster Avenue

Ozzie Brown looks at the oil-drenched industrial stretch of Webster Avenue and sees a completely different future for this wide corridor that runs parallel to the Bronx River.

“We want to see bookstores, museums and cafés, so that it has a village feel,” said Brown, the chair of Community Board 7’s Land Use Committee. “We want to see nightlife, cuisine and culture.”

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Despite ongoing community concerns, work will begin in February on a 6-story, 48-room Comfort Inn on Webster Avenue in Norwood, as the McSam Hotel Group moves ahead after struggling for more than a year to convince neighbors that the project will be good for the area.

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