23 April 2012
Stepping outside to walk her dog on a brisk, but sunny November day, Sarah Holland, a senior citizen, said crime has increased over the year she has lived in Central Harlem. She said she occasionally hears gunshots or sees police cars stopped on her block. While she is aware of crime, she does not feel threatened, though, because she tends to be on streets when other people are around.
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23 April 2012
While not everyone in Central Harlem will vote for Obama, most interviewed said they would support him again and described the challenges facing the President—from a bad economy to partisan congressional battles. Even with the election a year away, a group of Harlem residents attended a rally held by Harlem 4 Obama, a grassroots campaign organization that supports the President on October 9th in front of the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. statue on 125th street.
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29 February 2012
Seven of Anita Haimraj’s family members arrived at Ferry Point Park in the Bronx on the early evening of July 6, 2005 while it was still bright and clear outside. At the park gate, Anita’s sister Angie Parasram headed to the left with two relatives, while four others went to the right.
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08 February 2012
Highbridge is part of Assembly District 77, which like most of the Bronx voted overwhelmingly Democratic in the 2008 election. Of the 32,480 ballots counted in the district, 30,549 (or 94 percent) were for the Obama/Biden ticket. Disillusionment with the government has been a staple of the poor communities in the Bronx, which often leads to poor voter turnout.
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07 February 2012
Mayra Perez puts up with a lot living at 1055 University Avenue, mostly because she has to. When flies come in through the broken window screens, she hangs sticky tapes from the ceiling. When shower water seeps through the ceiling from the apartment above, she washes extra towels to mop up the mess. When the drug dealers congregate in the courtyard, she makes sure to be in her apartment by nightfall.
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17 January 2012
On Aug. 30, 2007, Robert Fernandez was working at the Bronx Supreme Court at 215 East 161st Street. He stood in his court officer’s uniform at the barrier where the public waited to pass through X-ray machines before entering the courtrooms. At about 8:30 a.m., a man of average build came down the right hand side of the marble stairs.
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17 January 2012
The Shawangunk Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison, is in an old farm valley in Wallkill, a small hamlet with about 2,000 people in Ulster County. A half hour drive from the Trailways Bus Station in New Paltz, the prison is surrounded by empty meadows, with the cars in the parking lot representing the only sign of civilization.
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17 November 2011
From senior citizens to immigrant workers seeking citizenship to Fordham University students, most of the people interviewed in Belmont shared the feeling that the two main American parties had let the country down with opposite agendas and empty rhetoric.
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17 November 2011
These days many young men and women are lost in a dark, post-apocalyptic fantasy world, and that couldn’t be more beneficial to their reading habits. According to students and teachers at BCA, a public school located just off the Grand Concourse in the Highbridge section of the Bronx, Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games,” the first in a trilogy of science-fiction novels, is as popular as the Harry Potter series was to tweens just a few years ago.
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17 November 2011
Franceska Sespedes, 14, was sitting on the stairs of the New York Public Library in Mott Haven, on Alexander Ave and 140th street, with some of her friends. The group of high school students attend different schools in Mott Haven and other sections of the South Bronx. About thirty in number, they met each other at the library two years ago and ever since have gathered at the library almost every day, to hang out, talk about school, use the internet, do their homework and read books.
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