Public-school students in the South Bronx who need a boost will have new options this summer.
City services were slashed, property values plummeted, and the South Bronx nearly burned to the ground.
S. 65 in the South Bronx, which Dahn claims has incorporated brain education exercises into the curriculum.
Chief JOHN TIMONEY (Miami Police): I worked the streets of the South Bronx which are pretty tough.
This does not indicate a violent-crime problem: in the South Bronx, only 3% of convictions are for felonies.
The architect behind the Longwood Historic District, a tiny, landmarked South Bronx enclave 30 minutes from Grand Central.
And 25% of children in much of Harlem and the South Bronx have had one of their parents imprisoned.
Fears that the South Bronx has somehow migrated to Britain are, however, misplaced.
Now, there are more than 3, 000 participating buildings around the city, mostly in higher-crime areas such as the South Bronx.
At South Bronx Prep, the graduation rate was also higher than 90%, yet only around 15% met the college readiness criteria.
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The neighborhood is the South Bronx, where Sister Edgar and her young colleague, Sister Gracie, are going about their good works.
Carter founded Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx) in 2001, spearheading a campaign to restore what has become the Hunts Point Riverside Park.
He eventually became a naturalized U.S. citizen and opened his medical office to help treat the Spanish-speaking poor of the South Bronx.
But by the early 1960s, the South Bronx began to fall apart.
Born in the South Bronx, she was raised in a housing project not far from Yankee Stadium, making her a lifelong Yankee's fan.
Alongside very poor Puerto Ricans in areas such as the South Bronx, there are growing middle-class Puerto Rican neighborhoods in the New York suburbs.
New York officials will test the new board structure with three pilot regions in Staten Island, the northwest and South Bronx, and Rockland County.
The South Bronx Greenway will eventually be an eleven-mile network of bike and pedestrian pathways, she explains, complete with storm water management and recreational systems.
Areas of Brooklyn, Queens and The South Bronx were also flooded.
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Sotomayor was raised in a housing project in New York's South Bronx by Puerto Rican parents who came to the United States during World War II.
Four ingredients are essential to forging these 21st-century skills whether we're talking about South Bronx or South America, and together they comprise a holistic solution for education.
We wonder if Kasparov will ever make a comeback or if some fantastic chess prodigy in Cleveland or the South Bronx will become the next Bobby Fischer.
That's because his mother's South Bronx building is one of thousands of private dwellings patrolled by the New York Police Department under a program known as Operation Clean Halls.
As I said, she was born and raised a Puerto Rican from the South Bronx, in an environment, by the way, as materially poor as anywhere in New York City.
"This was all new to me: we didn't have trees brushing up against windows in the South Bronx, " Sotomayor recalled in a speech to the Princeton Women's Network in 2002.
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Majora Carter, who set up Sustainable South Bronx to help lift the area out of poverty by creating green-collar jobs, is frustrated by this difference between the European and American industries.
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So when Ms. Quinn and her campaign spoke about the issue, they repeatedly referenced neighborhoods like the South Bronx, which are heavy in minorities and receive a large proportion of the city's trash.
The Clean Halls lawsuit was filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union and Bronx Defenders on behalf of Ligon and others who live in South Bronx apartment buildings enrolled in the program.
"When I was raised in the South Bronx as a little girl, I watched an awful lot of television, and it was a big influence on my life, " Manzano said in an interview in 2004.
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