Norwood, Bronx

Norwood is a neighborhood in the Bronx, New York. It is geographically well-defined, rare for a neighborhood in New York City, because it is surrounded by non-residential green space: Van Cortlandt Park and Woodlawn Cemetery to its north, Bronx Park (including the New York Botanical Garden) to its south and east, and Mosholu Parkway to its south and west. Nearby neighborhoods include Bedford Park, Williamsbridge, and Woodlawn. The neighborhood is served by the 205th Street subway station on the D (IND Concourse Line), the Mosholu Parkway and Woodlawn stations on the 4) elevated (IRT Woodlawn/Jerome Line), and the Williams Bridge station of the Metro North Railroad.

Demography

As of the census ² of 2000, the seven census tracts that make up the neighborhood have a population of 40,748. The racial makeup of the neighborhood is 32.66% White, 22.27% African American, 0.90% Native American, 9.01% Asian, 0.09% Pacific Islander, 28.23% from other races, and 1.59% from two or more races. 6.83% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Based on sample data from the same census, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that 37.54% of the population 5 and over speak only English at home. 46.26% speak Spanish at home, either exclusively or along with to English. Other languages spoken at home by more than 0.5% of the population of Norwood include Tagalog (1.90%), Urdu (0.93%), Korean (0.82%), French (0.68%), Chinese (0.60%) and Gujarati (0.59%). In addition, 2.69% speak "Other Indic languages," 2.47% speak "Other Indo-European languages" (mainly Albanian), 0.85% speak "African languages" and 0.52% speak "Other Slavic languages," (mainly Bulgarian).

Montefiore Hospital, now the university hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, was founded in 1884 as a Home for Chronic Invalids, housing mainly tuberculosis patients. It has long been a leader in the field of medicine, establishing the United States' first hospital departments of social medicine and home health care
Valentine-Varian House/Museum of Bronx History
Reservoir Oval, now a park, formerly a facility distributing water to the North Bronx