Yankee wins, a working boiler, safe streets

Photo Credit: Andrew Lampard

As September gives way to October in Highbridge and the first cold winds are felt by its residents, many of those in the neighborhood have three hopes: the Yankees will still be playing, the boiler in the apartment building will still be working, and the neighborhood streets and parks will be safer. Read the full story

The debate rages how to get kids to read

October 29, 2009

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The last book Glenn Afriyie, 15, read was “Holes,” by Louis Sachar, an adventure story whose main theme is racial equality. It was assigned to him last year in school. The next book the ninth-grade student at Jonathan Levin High School of Media and Communications in the Bronx will read has also been assigned to him through school. He has no interest in reading it. Read the full story

Music motivates South Bronx students

For nine years, a Bronx youth music ensemble electrified Morrisania.

Every day after school at P.S. 2 elementary school, in one of the poorest and most crime-ridden neighborhoods in the country, Tom Hall, 48, brought together 30 children, aged 6 to 12. He taught them to play piano and organ, showed them how to channel their anger, frustration, and emotions into music and transformed them into a world-class musical act. Read the full story