I was born in New York City's poor, rundown and at times dangerous South Bronx, where Blacks ... knowledge is indeed power. As the rich grow richer, they remain remarkably indifferent to suffering ...

Living in the suburbs meant large lots, more green space ... Under New York City Mayor Ed Koch, the South Bronx underwent a long period of revitalization from the 1970s through the 1990s.

the family wanted to honor their matriarch’s rich life and legacy in the Bronx. Hersh said her brother-in-law, Robert Greene, wrote to Wendell Foster, the City Council member for the South Bronx ...

Born in New York City's South Bronx to Puerto Rican and Cuban parents ... You grew up in this community. You become rich out of nowhere. They supported you. Do you leave the hood and have the ...

Then Manhattan fits up next to the Bronx on its western side for more than half its length, lying approximately north and south ... In general, people in the suburbs to the north of this line ...

The South Bronx was described as “very sobering,” and full of “devastation” by President Jimmy Carter when he visited the neighborhood in 1977. It was the same year that a rash of building ...

When former President Donald Trump announced he would hold a rally in the South Bronx, New York Democrats decided the presumptive Republican nominee would not do so without opposition.

NYPD officers, elected officials and community members cut the ribbon on the new 40th Precinct station house in the South ...