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“What Darkness She Lived”

Trying to prevent the very abuse that killed a Bronx nurse

Living with the List

Trying to get repairs at 3580 Broadway

Vincent Morgan

Laughing Through the Sorrow

Vincent Morgan, the good humor man, has a unique take on the funeral business

A Time to Remember

How Red Hook residents outlasted the storm

A Sense of Place

Miguel Amadeo is a music legend in the South Bronx

Left With Nothing

A familiar refrain on Staten Island

Miracle on 57th Street

The crane that threatened New York

Edgar Allan Poe's house in the Bronx

“It Was Many and Many a Year Ago”

Edgar Allan Poe wrote "Annabel Lee" and other classics at this cottage in Fordham

“The Epicenter of the Epidemic”

A Bronx HIV / AIDS Odyssey

Head to Head

Harlemites saw a contentious third debate (Photo by Pool-Win McNamee | AP)

Out of the Cold

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12 February 2013

Gabriel Thompson grabbed his black, thick-framed glasses by the tape that held them together close to his right temple. He lowered them slightly and pulled a map he had drawn on the back of a prison supply form close to his face. He put the paper down and drew an X in the middle of East 190th Street in the Bronx. Thompson then grimaced and curled his body over the visiting room table, indicating the X represented where Miguel Lopez fell after being stabbed outside 1013 E. 190th St. on August 31, 1985.

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Fatal Moment

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05 February 2013

They stepped out of the convent in Harlem at 8:40 a.m., walking slowly on West 124th street, then around Marcus Garvey Park and onto West 122nd street straight to Lenox Avenue. They were going to visit Sam Morjaria, a physical therapist, just like they did every Tuesday for the past six months. Patricia Cruz, an aide at Partners In Care, had her arm around Sister Mary Celine Graham. It was June 22, 2010.

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A Christmas Tragedy

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05 February 2013

George Talavera's cell phone kept ringing. Ringing, ringing, ringing. All Alberto Vasquez could do was sit and watch the phone jiggle as it vibrated on the blood-splattered hardwood floor. As much as he wanted to pick it up, the police told him no. Vasquez knew who was calling – Laura Cassimere, the mother of Talavera's only daughter, Nylah. It was around 3 a.m. on Christmas morning 2009 and Cassimere hadn't heard from Talavera all night. Vasquez just wanted to answer the phone to tell her that George was dead.

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The Death of a Family Man

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05 February 2013

Heavy humid air had settled over the Bronx on the evening of August 16, 2009 when Ahamadou Ndiaye planned to visit the office of his cousin, Papa Ndiaye, at East 179th Street and Prospect Ave. The temperature hovered in the merciless 90s as Ndiaye, a 6-foot Senegalese immigrant, dressed in a green and yellow shirt over a white tank top and wearing denim shorts, reached his cousin’s office.

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Speed Kills an Innocent Bystander

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05 February 2013

As a sunny Sunday afternoon slowly faded into evening in the northwest Bronx on July 12, 2009, Tamika Jennings and Mark St. Pierre walked out of the Chuck E Cheese restaurant on East Gun Hill Road, fighting about a cell phone.

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A Matter of Jealousy?

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05 February 2013

Glenn Terrell Sr., 53, sat on a black leather couch in his South Bronx apartment as he went through a large box of old family photos. On the wall above where he sat, there was a framed photograph of him and the rest of his army colleagues at Fort Benning, Georgia, 1977. “That was a long time ago,” he said, glancing up at the picture.

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Where Washington Walked

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06 December 2012

“George Washington stayed here one month during the Revolutionary War. This is his meeting room,” she said. “We are actually on the same wood floors George Washington walked on.”

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Mr. Fixit

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06 December 2012

In the parking lot behind the Auto Zone parts and supply store on Jerome Ave. in the Highbridge neighborhood of the South Bronx, a man in oil-stained camouflage pants with a gap-toothed grin approaches a customer returning to his car. “Need some mechanical work?” he asks.

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Johnny Ramirez

The Great Escape

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06 December 2012

It has been less than two years since stay-at-home dad Johnny Ramirez and his family moved into Hunts Point. During that time, he said, parts of their ceiling collapsed five times, his daughters went to the hospital three times, and two of his neighbors moved out of the building at 735 Bryant Avenue.

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Business 101

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06 December 2012

Victor Arias, a clerk at the Fast Cash pawn shop, knows as much about today’s economic climate as any politician. Fast Cash, a chain of pawn shops in West Harlem, is where clients have been selling or pawning beloved items since the financial meltdown of 2008.

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