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‘They Don’t Know Yet?’

The shocking death of Angie Grullon: a shooting in The Bronx that left many victims.

From ‘Twilight’ to the Bard

East Harlem teens are -- what else? -- unpredictable readers.

Tales From the Food Stamp Front

As more people fall below the poverty line, more Americans turn to food stamps.

A Statement from The Bronx

A Bronx Renaissance: Four young people have opened up expectations in fashion.

‘Maus’, not ‘Moby Dick’ for teens

Picking a title from this 103rd street bookseller is an adventure.

“Be a Bird, Your Bird”

The Dance Theatre of Harlem is once again alive and well.

Paulino Valenzuela

“Arrest Me, I’ve Just Killed Someone”

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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The Destruction of Two Lives

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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After three years, enthusiasm is gone

17 November 2011

Belmont residents are pessimistic about future but don’t blame Obama By Caterina Clerici   On November 4th 2008, Zelma Acosta and her 18-year-old daughter celebrated Barack Obama’s victory against John McCain and his election as the 44th president of the United States. It was the first time her daughter voted, Acosta said, and she recalled [...]

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Fantasy and Reality

17 November 2011

Some Highbridge students find reading compelling   By Chris Mascaro Arnold Andujar is a high-school senior who thinks life —and death — is fun when it’s between the covers of a book. Andujar won a laptop last year for having the highest grade point average in the junior class. A soon-to-be 17-year old who attends [...]

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Stigma and Culture in Mott Haven

17 November 2011

Trying to find common reading ground By Maral Noshad Sharifi   On a sunny Tuesday in the early fall, 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 [...]

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A Room to Read

17 November 2011

It’s hard to find when your school has no library By: Raisa Zaidi A mother and her young son and daughter sit on the No. 2 train near Simpson Street in the South Bronx. The daughter starts sifting through her mother’s bag and pulls out two magazines, then asks if she can read them. Her [...]

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Complaint Factor at 690 E. 182nd St.

17 November 2011

The tenants fight on  By: Victoria Turk Eba Ortiz spent the day at home on Wednesday looking after her granddaughter.  She prepared the evening’s chicken dinner in the kitchen while the sound of children’s television came from the living room.  Her apartment is spacious; the walls are beautifully decorated and the floor spotless.  “I love [...]

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Spanning the World

17 November 2011

Learning the rolling globe, an eight-foot plastic ball on which a circus performer walks (and sometimes juggles), is helping Patricia Persaud travel the globe. There are no windows in the Living From the Edge Theatre at The Point community center in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx. But the circus program it houses allows its members to see the world like never before.

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The Stress Factor

10 November 2011

The conversation had started about football outside the Drew-Hamilton housing projects, and how foolish it was to bet on the Eagles in their game against the Falcons. Melvina King, a short woman with a black turtleneck and chin length black hair, said she bet on the Eagles, as she always did, and lost. It was late September in central Harlem, but an early fall breeze brought a brief change to the temperature, and a shift in conversation.

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Safer but still troubled

10 November 2011

John Flanagan, 44, was born and raised in Highbridge in the South Bronx. He still lives on Woodycrest Avenue, a few blocks west of Yankee Stadium. He has seen the neighborhood transform over the years from the troubled, violent 1980s to the calmer, safer times of today. But drugs, he said, still blighted the area.

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