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After Outrage, No More Bronx 'Ghetto' Tours

2013-05-23T08:18:24Z

NEW YORK -- A company that promised sightseer tours to the Bronx that included a New York City "ghetto" has stopped the bus rides under protest from a...

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John J. Healey: Finnegans Wake in the Bronx

2013-05-15T19:00:49Z

I remember looking at it out of curiosity, knowing nothing at all about Joyce, when I was eight or nine-years-old. It stood out from the other books adorned with more romantic covers and titles. And I remember leafing through it, lying on the floor, and finding it absolutely nonsensical.

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Gregg S. Lipman: Can Manhattan Get Its Groove Back?

2013-05-10T11:18:59Z

Brooklyn shouldn't get too comfy with its current cool status; it's just a matter of time before the borough suffers a backlash as well, and the cool hunters go in search of the next big thing.

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Ruben Diaz Jr.: New York Needs a Gun Offender Registry

2013-05-03T18:53:49Z

New York City is the safest big city in America, in part because our registry allows the police to shine a light on gun offenders. Now, the State Legislature must follow in the City's footsteps by providing law enforcement with this common-sense crime-fighting tool that will help keep the public safe.

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Jim Luce: Up-Close Look at Group's Grassroots Effort to Reduce Homelessness

2013-05-02T06:38:00Z

It is an understatement to call homelessness a growing problem. More accurately, it's a tragedy. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that an a...

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84-Year-Old Woman Dies in Bronx Fire, NYPD Says

2013-04-30T16:17:38Z

NEW YORK CITY — An elderly woman died when a fire tore through an Ampere Avenue home in the Bronx Tuesday morning, officials said.

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Craig Kanalley: PHOTOS: A Day At The Bronx Zoo

2013-04-29T14:38:25Z

I know a good zoo when I see one. The Bronx Zoo is a great zoo. The animals represented are diverse and from all parts of the world.

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Nancy Biberman: Increase Fresh Food Access to Improve Health Outcomes

2013-04-25T17:02:43Z

Conventional wisdom suggests that the neighborhoods near the world's largest produce market would be veritable fresh food paradises where locals have access to an endless array of nutritious fruits and vegetables. Unfortunately, that's not the case.

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Julio Pabon: A Press Conference to Address Political Scandals and a Growing Distrust of Latino Elected Officials in the South Bronx

2013-04-05T18:51:29Z

Our democracy has to rely on the younger generation. A generation who tends to be less enthusiastic about voting. We need to do anything and everything we can to get them out to vote.

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PHOTOS: Teen Sparked Massive Bronx Fire, FDNY Says

2013-04-08T09:52:53Z

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS -- A teenage girl was arrested and charged with arson Saturday night after fire marshals found she set the blaze that left 27 peopl...

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Peter Van Buren: We Were Once the American Dream

2013-04-03T20:25:19Z

You can't raise a family on minimum wage. And you can't build a nation on the working poor. It is a rough portrait of an American past and a tough vision to push into an American future. But my goal isn't to speak in broad terms.

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First Gorilla Born In NYC Dies At 40

2013-04-01T08:21:44Z

NEW YORK -- Pattycake, the first gorilla born in New York City, has died at the Bronx Zoo. She was 40 years old and suffering from chronic cardiac pro...

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Bill Moyers: WATCH: 'Bronx Defenders' Redefine Public Defense

2013-03-29T13:52:24Z

The Supreme Court ruled in the case of Gideon vs. Wainwright that criminal defendants have the constitutional right to legal representation. It was a promise to provide equal rights in the judicial system and one, says attorney and public defender Robin Steinberg, that's far from being fulfilled.

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Steve Zack: Volcano Birds in the Modern Age

2013-03-27T15:18:10Z

We humans, and our dogs, cats, and rats, have collided with megapodes in ways that make their conservation imperative. In Sulawesi I saw how our efforts to conserve the species are working.

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The Corrupt History Of What Used To Be The Bronx's Once And Only Amusement Park

2013-03-22T15:52:09Z

On the swampland where the towers of Co-op City now stand, a writer pieces together the corrupt and convoluted backstory of the Bronx’s once and onl...

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Julio Pabon: South Bronx Makes History With or Without Mayoral Candidates

2013-03-14T14:42:38Z

I have seen many forums and debates for candidates running for mayor taking place in other parts of the city, but never in my neighborhood. It's like, people in the Bronx don't count?

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Pit Bull Attack Of Girl Caught On Tape

2013-03-14T12:56:34Z

A pit bull sprinted across a Bronx street and attacked a young girl on Sunday, as shown in horrifying surveillance video, CBS New York reported.

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Kate Quarfordt: Broadway in El Barrio (and The Bronx): For a New Generation of Actors and Audience Members, In The Heights Hits Home

2013-03-11T12:56:15Z

For a decade, the kids in our program have been stretching far outside their cultural comfort zones to put on musicals that have little do to with their own life experiences.

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Virginia Sanchez-Korrol: A Forgotten Piece of Women's History

2013-03-08T17:33:33Z

Not quite realizing that behind every exceptional woman there is a community of faceless and nameless women who have helped sustain her, the legacies of the migrant women from Puerto Rico, sculptors of today's communities in New York, are all but forgotten.

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Lincoln Mitchell: The Next Yankee World Series Team

2013-03-08T11:04:55Z

The Yankees are in sufficiently bad shape that even a great year by Rivera will not bring them back to the World Series. Moreover, Rivera is not the only aging Yankee seeking to recover from an injury.

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Kate Quarfordt: Is Piano Class the Key to Public School Music? Working Individually as a Group May Be the Answer

2013-03-04T17:15:34Z

2013-03-04-PixfromHomeComputer173.jpg From its humble beginnings in the trailer and the closet to illustrious stages at performance venues throughout the city, the Bronx Prep Piano Program has transformed the lives of hundreds of talented South Bronx students.

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Mother's Son Charged In Her Gruesome Murder

2013-02-28T08:24:42Z

A Bronx man was charged Wednesday night with second-degree murder in connection with the death of his mother, whose dismembered body was found in plas...

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NYPD: Man Implicates Self In Dismemberment Of Mother

2013-02-27T08:35:30Z

A 23-year-old Bronx man was in custody Tuesday in connection with the grisly killing and dismemberment of his mother, whose body parts were found in t...

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Man In Custody For Dismembering Woman

2013-02-26T16:16:28Z

NEW YORK — A man out walking his dog early Tuesday morning made a gruesome discovery: the dismembered remains of a woman in a heavy duty plastic...

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Body Parts Found In Bag On Bronx Street

2013-02-26T10:15:54Z

By Trevor Kapp and Aidan Gardiner

MORRISANIA — Police believe they have identified the dismembered body found inside bags scattered around a resi...

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