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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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