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Baker’s characterization does not mean the stories of death, injuries, and robberies get silenced. They’re told, but nothing ever goes beyond the surface-level report or incident — the narratives of people involved are never conveyed or even mentioned. DNAinfo, the champions of neighborhood coverage, almost solely report on these violent or negative developments within the South Bronx. Of the 50 most recently published articles with the South Bronx tag, 31 were negative, 10 were neutral or did not pertain to the South Bronx specifically, and 9 were positive.

And of these 50 published articles tagged under South Bronx, 17 of them relied on second-hand information of what happened (indicated in title with “Entity X Says”). While this is also the case for other area tags, such as Riverdale and Kingsbridge in the Bronx as well as Greenwich Village and SoHo in Manhattan, the articles filed under those tags contrast with the types of stories covered.

Riverdale and Kingsbridge are filed together, and of their 50 most recent articles, 24 were negative, 13 were neutral or did not pertain to their areas specifically, and 13 were positive. Greenwich Village and SoHo are also filed together, and of their 50 most recent articles, 17 were negative, 11 were neutral or did not pertain to their areas specifically, and 22 were positive. And these sets of 50 articles were all published during different time periods. 

While all from the same news outlet, these 50 most recent articles from the South Bronx; Riverdale and Kingsbridge; and Greenwich Village and SoHo were published in a span of 31 days, 30 days, and 67 days respectively. Therefore, the negative articles were the most spread out for those in Greenwich Village and SoHo, with the area only seeing 1 negative article approximately every 4 days. Riverdale and Kingsbridge saw about 1 negative article every 1.25 days, whereas the South Bronx had 1 negative article per day.

And using the same news source to balance that out, the South Bronx only saw a positive article about their area once every 3.5 days. That is dismal compared to Riverdale and Kingsbridge as well as Greenwich Village and SoHo, which see a positive story once ever 2.4 days and 3 days respectively.

As the local media source, DNAinfo New York’s stories serve as a window into daily life on the ground, so the narratives unfortunately reach outward to greater audiences. Although The Times is no longer covering metropolitan news as much or as diligently anymore, their numbers for the South Bronx are also unfortunate.

Within the past 12 months, its opinion section mentioned the South Bronx 9 times — each one was to help prove a point either about a failing system or about its most recent Murder in the 4-0 series with Baker. The paper’s Editorial Board characterized the South Bronx as “a misbegotten stub” and as a place “where violence and poverty and mistrust of the police are entrenched” in two separate articles.

These are not flattering descriptions, paired with how the area’s charter schools have 1 spot for every 4 applicants — another fact the editorial board uses in another article. A 25 percent placement rate makes it more competitive than the class of 2021 admissions rate for New York University, which stands at 27 percent.

Meanwhile, The Times’ N.Y./Region Pieces within the past 12 months mentioned the South Bronx 80 times: 41 were negative, 23 were neutral or did not pertain to the South Bronx, and 16 were positive. That means from the “paper of record,” a nickname for major newspapers that are the most reliable sources, those in the South Bronx see negative coverage of their area once every 9 days, while they must wait about 23 days before seeing a positive piece.

And across the country in Southern California, the Los Angeles Times only turns 8 results for the South Bronx. The paper’s main coverage was on the Legionnaires’ Disease outbreak in 2015, dedicating 3 articles to it, while 2 articles were reviews on a play that used outdated South Bronx stereotypes to portray it (characterizing the woman from the area a pot-smoker “who’s lived outside the law for years”).

One article that came up as a search result from the Los Angeles Times did not relate to the South Bronx, and 2 pieces were positive. Although they only tangentially touched on the South Bronx, the area played a vital role in the stories by serving as learning institutions for the subjects of the stories.

And now spanning even larger, BBC News mentioned the South Bronx 72 times since it started documenting all its content online. The earliest South Bronx result was dated on February 26, 2000 — Richard Quest reported on the Amadou Diallo shooting that happened a year before.

Unlike the other news outlets, BBC News mentioned the South Bronx often due to its music coverage and fascination with hip hop’s origins. It reported on the South Bronx as the origin of hip about 15 times, and it often mentioned the South Bronx as the birthplace of many artists it featured in its BBC Radio 1Xtra segments.

However, it still only reported 5 positive stories of the South Bronx and had 29 negative portrayals of the South Bronx, calling it “the national emblem of urban collapse,” one of America’s two “most notorious ghettos,” and a place where “life prospects are less promising for those stuck at the bottom of the American pile.”

Web Research

(All data as of April 27, 2017)

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Neutral or Unrelated Characterization of South Bronx
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New York Times: The Past 12 Months — Opinion Pieces
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-       Can Citizens Sue Over Climate Change? (May 23, 2016 - Carlton Mark Waterhouse, Indiana University McKinney School of Law)

  • A settlement over noxious emissions from a sewage plant in the South Bronx

-       Crime and Gratitude in New York (January 7, 2017 - Editorial Board)

  • The Times spent the last year logging every murder in the 40th Precinct in the South Bronx, one of several neighborhoods beset with gangs and guns, where violence and poverty and mistrust of the police are entrenched. New Yorkers there have not shared in the peace dividend the city as a whole enjoys.

-       The Immigrants Turned Away (September 2, 2016 - Timothy Egan from Seattle, WA)

  • And Trump wants to make sure that countries associated with drugs don’t send their people here, either. Sorry Colin Powell. His parents were from Jamaica, the largest illicit producer and exporter of marijuana in the Caribbean. Sure, Colin would became a four-star general and secretary of state, but the parents? Would they have been living in the South Bronx if they could show “an ability to be financially self-sufficient?” Not sure about that.

-       Race Issues and the Women’s March on Washington, Letter to the Editor (January 12, 2017 - Kimberly Marcus)

  • I am a white woman. I work in the South Bronx. I feel my privilege every day from when the New York Police Department doesn’t give me a second glance to getting served first when I am in a deli. But I also know this: When I walk down the street and something happens, so many times my eyes have met the eyes of other women walking by — other women of different races — and we’ve smiled or spoken to one another or just shook our heads. At that moment, we are women. The color of our skin doesn’t matter.

-       A Misguided Attack on Charter Schools (October 13, 2016 – Editorial Board)

  • In Harlem and the South Bronx, there are now four applicants for every charter school seat.

-       Why There Is No War on the Police (July 20, 2016 – Edward Conlon, former NYPD officer)

  • But while violent death was always a risk for cops, it was a daily reality for the African-American and Latino residents of the South Bronx, where I worked… During the two years I walked a beat in a housing project in the South Bronx two decades ago, I was called all the time, hailed on the streets or summoned through 911, because kids weren’t doing their homework or because the toilet wasn’t working.

-       How Cities Should Take Care of Their Housing Problems (February 21, 2017 – Eric Uhlfelder, New York-based writer)

  • The city [NYC] has already channeled approximately $1 billion from luxury development for affordable housing into communities like Harlem and the South Bronx.
  • The money could finance new construction over municipal parking lots and abandoned industrial areas and along coastlines in the Bronx, in Brooklyn and on Staten Island.

-       A Grand Bronx Plan Requires Local Input (March 30, 2017 – A Grand Bronx Plan Requires Local Input, Editorial Board)

  • The Sheridan Expressway has blighted its corner of the South Bronx since the 1960s… it is a prime example of a Moses mistake — a misbegotten stub of a road that separates the neighborhood from the Bronx River, which it parallels.
  • [Gov. Andrew Cuomo] has put nearly $700 million in this year’s budget for the first phase of a $1.8 billion project to turn the expressway into a ground-level boulevard, with trees and crosswalks and grassy medians. The new mile will “transform the South Bronx,” Mr. Cuomo said, with his usual understatement.

-       A Shooting and a Hospital in the Bronx, Letter to the Editor (May 13, 2016 – Robert S. Kurtz, former director of service for trauma and surgical critical care at Kings County Hospital Center)

  • “A Shooting, the Hospital and Then, Months Later, a Homicide” (“Murder in the 4-0” series, front page, May 8) is a brilliant, far-reaching exploration of homicides in the 40th Precinct in the South Bronx.

 

New York Times: The Past 12 Months — N.Y./Region Pieces
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-       In the South Bronx, Lives Derailed by Guns
-       Why One School Lives as Another Dies in the Same Building
-       Cuomo Plots Demise of Bronx’s Unloved Sheridan Expressway
-       A Peephole Camera in the South Bronx

  • A video camera installed in a peephole picked up hours of drug activity in the hallway of a South Bronx apartment building

-       No People in Sight Yet, but South Bronx Gets Ready for Development
-       Grandmother’s Killing Lays Bare a Dilemma in Child Welfare Work
-       Kept in Line by an Angel When Fort Apache Wasn’t Enough

  • Through the dim memories of a South Bronx childhood…

-       Rift Between Officers and Residents as Killings Persist in South Bronx
-       New York City to Close ‘Persistently Struggling’ School in the South Bronx
-       Quest for a New Life Ends in a Tangle of Gang Ties
-       Bronx Teenager Won’t Be Tried as Adult in Gang Case
-       Grandmaster Flash Beats Back Time
-       A Shooting, the Hospital and Then, Months Later, It’s a Homicide
-       A Man is Shot in the Back, and Only the Police are Kept in the Dark
-       An Enduring Heroin Market Shapes and Enforcer’s Rise and Fall
-       Starving for Greenery, South Bronx Finally Gets a Link to an Island Oasis (May 15, 2016)
-       Social Circles Collide on a Dance Floor, Then a Brawl Ends in Death
-       New York Police Urged to Fix Inequalities in Deployment of Investigators

  • The 40th Precinct in the South Bronx, where overall crime climbed by 13 percent last year, had the city’s highest murder rate

-       A Mother Is Shot Dead on a Playground, and a Sea of Witnesses Goes Silent
-       Toddler Sisters Fatally Burned in South Bronx
-       The Greenest Building in the South Bronx
-       A Tribute to the South Bronx
-       A Voice for the Poor and Powerless of the South Bronx Falls Silent
-       A Killing Hidden by the Light
-       De Blasio Faces Tough Road Replacing Rikers With New Jails

  • In the two places where new jails could possibly be built — in the South Bronx and on northern Staten Island — the tone is very different.

-       In the Bronx, Heroin Woes Never Went Away
-       Not Everyone in the Bronx Hates the Sheridan Expressway
-       Once a Musician’s Haven, the Bronx is Pricing Out Its Sidemen

  • There was once a time when the streets of the South Bronx nurtured genres of music that went on to influence American — if not global culture.

-       A Priest’s Legacy: Blessing His Flock, and Organizing It
-       From College Hopes to Immigrant Travails, Neediest Cases Had Global Reach

  • Work in the garden would be used as a model for her group’s neighborhood reclamation initiative, which will start in the South Bronx with the intention of spreading nationwide.

-       Five Leaders on New York’s Five Boroughs
-       After a Killing :’I Only Wanted to Scare Them’
-       In Home of Hip-Hope, a Concert Hall to Honor Its Musical History
-       Police to Strengthen Force in New York’s Most Violent Borough
-       Fighting for New York’s Homeless: What’s Fair?

  • Just as poorer neighborhoods should include more good things — parks, libraries — affluent neighborhoods should help shoulder the burden of shelters, waste transfer sites and so on, the logic goes. If the Rikers Island complex were to close, for example, smaller jails would pop up around the city, and they would need to be in Forest Hills, Queens, as much as they would in the South Bronx.

-       Robert Garcia Dies at 84; Bronx Congressman Undone by Scandal
-       How Malay Spends His Sundays: Cooking at Home, Music in the Studio
-       New York’s Growth Can Be Measured in Trash Bags

  • In the South Bronx, Councilman Rafael Salamanca Jr. said he sees overwhelmed trash baskets every day.

-       As Silence Follows Bronx Mother’s Killing, Commissioner Focuses on Trust
-       Armed Man is Fatally Shot by Officers in the Bronx, Police Say
-       Bronx Assemblyman Files Complain Against the Police
-       In 6 house, 4 Are Killed in Separate Shootings in New York City
-       Comic-Book Heroine to Make Puerto Rico Proud
-       500 Affordable Units to Rise on Housing Authority Land in Bronx and Brooklyn
-       Trading the ‘Ugliness’ of Drugs and Jail for Motherhood and College
-       New York Charters Enroll Fewer Homeless Pupils Than City Schools
-       For Women of Immigrant Heritage, the ABC’s of Running for Office
-       Stepping Out of the Ring While Rolling With the Punches
-       A New Immigrant Hopes for a Culinary Career
-       Bronx Official Urges Odell Beckham Jr.: Skip the Strippers Next Time You’re Here
-       Where the Carnegie Deli yet Lives, on Certain Nights [not Bronx-related]
-       Invoking Radicals of America’s Recent Past in a Politically Fraught Present
-       A Case for Using Street Art to Clean Up Dreary Stretches of the Bronx
-       5 Neglected New York City Parks to Get $150 Million for Upgrades
-       Under New Policy for Homeless Families, Children Can Miss Less School
-       Waiting 8 Days in the Heat for a Career in Carpentry
-       A Pioneering Break Dancer Returns to Battle
-       John Timoney, Longtime Police Leader, Is Recalled at His Funeral as ‘One of a Kind’
-       New York Today: A Bird’s Eye View of Poe

  • A bullet’s fatal detour in the 40th Precinct in the South Bronx: Maribel Cavero’s death in 2016 puzzled detectives.

-       Where Trash Makes a Stop in Brooklyn, Neighbors Want it Gone

  • The burden [of the trash] fell particularly heavy on three neighborhoods in North Brooklyn, the South Bronx and southeast Queens, where some 75 percent of the city’s trash is hauled and sorted.

-       New York Today: Who Is Your New Yorker of the Year?
-       Sisters’ Deaths Reveal Strains in City’s Efforts to Tackle Homelessness
-       New York Today: A Moment for the Mets
-       New York Today: Guitars in the City
-       New York Today: Offbeat Playgrounds
-       New York Today: A Drone Invasion
-       A Garden Helps Heal a Family
-       Outrage in Bronx as Barnes & Noble is Set to Close
-       New York Today: Architecture for All
-       New York Today: Commuting on Two Wheels
-       New York Today: How to Meditate on Your Commute
-       New York’s LED Streetlights: A Crime Deterrent to Some, a Nuisance to Others
-       New York Today: The Home of Hip-Hop
-       New York Today: Outdoor Gaming
-       After Iraq, Trying His Hand at a Project Closer to Home: Brooklyn
-       New York Today: Becoming a New Yorker
-       A Bullet Misses Its Mark, and Then Takes a Fatal Detour
-       Can the Big Apple Circus be Saved?
-       Milton Glaser Still Hearts New York
-       The Real Mayors of New York

 

DNAinfo New York: South Bronx tag - 50 most recent
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  1. 60-Year-Old Woman Killed by Hit-and-Run Motorcyclist Remembered as 'Angel'
  2. Thursday is Free Cone Day at Carvel
  3. Fordham Shut Down Pro-Palestinian Group Over ‘Polarization’ Fears: Lawsuit
  4. Snot Otters, Which Are Not Otters, Arrive at Bronx Zoo
  5. Bronx Counselor Gets 12 Years for Raping Mental Disabled Women
  6. Manhattan DA To Donate $12M to Groups Helping Vulnerable Crime Victims
  7. Landlords Drag Feet on Cooking Gas Outages, Tenants Say
  8. Rent Hikes as High as 4 Percent On Table After Board Vote
  9. Man Critically Stabbed at Yankee Stadium Subway Station, NYPD Says
  10. Post Office Audit Confirms That South Bronx Mail Service is Awful
  11. MTA’s New Open-Plan Subway Cars Have More Space, No Odor Shield
  12. Prostitutes, Beer, Trips Used to Bribe Officers in Gun License Probe: Feds
  13. De Blasio Announces Pre-K for All 3-year-Olds in City by 2021
  14. Beer Burglars Bash Rail Worker’s Face With Concrete Block After Heist: NYPD
  15. Pedestrian Crossing Bruckner Expressway Injured by Hit-and-Run Motorcyclist
  16. Mayor De Blasio Will Spend a Week in The Bronx in Late May
  17. Selina Meyer of ‘Veep’ Doesn’t Seem to Like the South Bronx That Much
  18. Thief in ‘Not Today’ Shirt Can’t Open Register and Trashes Laundromat: NYPD
  19. Livery Driver Stabbed in Neck and Face by Passenger, NYPD Says
  20. NYPD Sergeant’s Debut Novel Explores the Complexities of Policing the City
  21. Man Arrested After Bronx Police Chase That Injured Officer, NYPD Says
  22. Lisa Lisa to Perform Free Concert in The Bronx This Summer
  23. Man Shoves 64-Year-Old Off Subway After Accusing Him of Taking Photo: NYPD
  24. Burglar Steals over $3K Worth of Products from Bronx Pharmacy, Police Say
  25. Drunk Passenger Steals Sikh Cab Driver’s Turban, Police Say
  26. Bronx Man Dies After Being Shot in Buttocks, Police Say
  27. Possible Gang-Related Machete Attack Injures Man, Police Say
  28. Judge Frees Bronx Man From Prison Because Key Trial Evidence Withheld
  29. Officer Released from Hospital After Injuring Arm During Chase
  30. Suspect Won’t be Charged in Street Fight Death After DA Foul-Up
  31. Where to Eat Outdoors in Mott Haven
  32. New Suspects Indicted for 2012 Bronx Murder Years After Wrongful Arrest
  33. Person Fatally Struck by 6 Train at Brook Avenue Station, Officials Say
  34. Cowboy Hat-Wearing Father of Bronx Borough Prez Running for City Council
  35. Rapper Bobby Shmurda Gets 4 Years for Trying to Smuggle Shank Into Rikers
  36. Walking Tour Inspired by ‘The Get Down’ Kicks Off in The Bronx
  37. Enraged Uber Passenger Threatens to Falsely Accuse Driver of Rape
  38. Burglars Steal Ice Cream Freezer in South Bronx, NYPD Says
  39. New Playground, Turf Field Coming to South Bronx Park
  40. Former Record Exec Plans to Open ‘Cooler Red Lobster’ in Hunts Point
  41. Program to Prevent Homelessness Among Bronx Seniors at Risk of Closing Down
  42. No Charges for Officers in Emotionally Disturbed Man’s Death: AG’s Office
  43. Yankee Fans Are More Excited for Derek Jeter Night Than Opening Day
  44. DOT Plans to Put Bus-Only Lane in E. 161st Street Tunnel to Fight Traffic
  45. Man Pries Open Car Window to Steal Purse
  46. $3.3 Billion of Development Poured Into Bronx in 2016, Report Says
  47. VIDEO: Robbers Stuck Up Man for Gold Chains and Cash Outside Bronx Building
  48. Suspect Arrested in Fatal Shooting of 21-Year-Old Mott Haven Woman: NYPD
  49. Drug Dealer Responsible for Woman ODing in Rehab Center Arrested: Officials Say
  50. Man Steals $1,800 From Chase Bank in South Bronx, Police Say (March 28, 2017)

 

DNAinfo New York: Riverdale and Kingsbridge tag - 50 most recent
https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/bronx/riverdale-kingsbridge

  1. Preschools Eye De Blasio’s 3-year-old Pre-K Expansion Plan With Caution
  2. Pol Hopes New Bill Will Embarrass Agencies Into Finishing Projects On Time
  3. City Takes Too Long and Spends Too Much to Finish Cultural Projects: Report Says
  4. Purse Snatcher Mugs 83-Year-Old Woman in Broad Daylight, NYPD Says
  5. Hate Crimes In New York City Continue to Soar, but Arrests Lag, Data Shows
  6. Why Kindergarten Offer Letters Don’t Give Families Their Waitlist Positions
  7. TRUE OR FALSE? Opting Out Could Mean Big Problems for Your Child and School
  8. Mayor Blames Trump’s Election for Spike in Subway Hate Crimes
  9. Here Are The Most and Least Competitive Neighborhoods for NYC Home Buyers
  10. Are Brokers Necessary? Controversial StreetEasy Tool Sparks Debate
  11. Number of Kids on kindergarten Waitlists Drops 4 Percent, City Says
  12. My Mom Was a Robot, Says Man Ruled Unfit to Stand Trial for Her Murder
  13. 34 of the Best Irish Bars Where You Can Grab a Pint in NYC
  14. Diaz Attacks Trump, Talks Up Development in State of The Bronx Speech
  15. Has Riverdale Officially Made It as a Hot Real Estate Market?
  16. Car Slams Into Bronx Shops and Traps Victims Behind Debris, FDNY Says
  17. City Helps 690 Homeless Find Housing, But Problem Persists
  18. Kingsbridge Poised to be City’s Hottest Neighborhood in 2017, Report Says
  19. Train Engineer Who Nodded Off in Fatal Derailment Blames Metro-North
  20. JFK High School Explosion Prompts Council to Pass Law on Gas Pipe Safety
  21. One of Bronx’s Last Jewish Delis Stays Alive by Taking Care of Customers
  22. Man Shot Twice in Face, Police Say
  23. Eliot Engel Wins Riverdale and Kingsbridge’s 16th Congressional District
  24. Fourth Suspect Arrested in Fatal Bronx Beating, Police Say
  25. Charges Upgraded to Manslaughter in Fatal Bronx Beating, DA Says
  26. Convicted Carjacker Arrested for Stealing NYPD Squad Car, Police Say
  27. Thief Takes NYPD Squad Car on Joyride after officer Leaves Keys Inside
  28. Suspect in Fatal Pot Lab Explosion Says He Didn’t Know House Contained Weed
  29. 4-Month-Old Boy Dies After Being Found Unconscious in Riverdale Motel: NYPD Says
  30. Man Dies from Beating After Pushing Woman in Bronx, Police Say
  31. Clown Incidents Spark Safety Letter to Public School Parents
  32. Assault Charges Imminent Against Suspects in Blast that Killed Fire Chief
  33. VIDEO: Man Shoves Woman, Then 6 Other People Attack Him
  34. ‘Dad, You Are My Hero’ — FDNY Chief Killed in Blast Honored at Funeral
  35. DA Mulls Murder Charges Against Suspect in Blast That Killed Fire Chief, Sources Say
  36. Suspect in Deadly Bronx Marijuana House Blast is ‘No El Chapo,’ Sources Say
  37. Funeral for FDNY Chief Killed in Blast Planned for Saturday, Union Says
  38. MTA Bosses Refused to Lower Flag for FDNY Chief Killed in Explosion
  39. Suspect Grabbed in Pot House Explosion in The Bronx, Officials Say
  40. Musician Shot by Cameraman With ‘Achieve the Impossible’ Tattoo, NYPD Says
  41. State Assembly Candidate Vows to Fight for Tenant Rights Uptown
  42. Bronx Garden to Celebrate Roald Dahl’s 100th Birthday with Giant Insects
  43. Spuyten-Duyvil Real Estate Prices Creeping Up to Brooklyn Levels
  44. Find a Story Time for Your Kid at a Bronx Public Library Branch Near You
  45. School Bans Students’ Cellphones in Violation of De Blasio Order
  46. 3 Men Shot in Van Cortlandt Park, Police Say
  47. Bronx School Parents Furious over Political Fighting and Lack of Leadership
  48. Assemblyman Tried to Block Minorities From Attending Riverdale School: Suit Says
  49. Get an ‘I Voted’ Sticker that Actually Represents Your Primary Experience
  50. Jogger Attacked by 2 Men in Van Cortlandt Park: NYPD Says (March 29, 2016)

 

DNAinfo New York: Greenwich Village and SoHo Tag - 50 most recent
https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/manhattan/greenwich-village-soho

  1. WTC Oculus Escalator Buckles, Sending 2 Men to Hospital, Officials Say
  2. NYC’s hidden LGBT Historic Sites Get Illuminated on Interactive Map
  3. Chihuly Glass Sculptures Take Over New York Botanical Gardens
  4. PHOTOS: Post-WWII New York City In Focus at New Museum Exhibit
  5. Stretch of 7th Ave. In West Village and Chelsea May Get Protected Bike Lane
  6. 14 Things To Do in Your Manhattan Neighborhoods This Weekend
  7. MAP: You Could Save $1,077 a Month by Moving 1 Subway Stop Away, Study Says
  8. Staten Island Professor and Poet in ‘Awe’ Over Pulitzer Win
  9. Pedro Hernandez Sentenced to 25 years to Life for Etan Patz Murder
  10. Renovated Hudson Square Plaza Will Have Swivel Charis, ‘Moonlight’ Lamps
  11. ‘Facebook Killer’ Commits Suicide in Pa. After Police Chase, Officials Say
  12. Man Arrested for Groping, Pushing Woman Onto Subway Tracks, NYPD Says
  13. Ex-Con Stabs Cousin in Butt, Slashes His Stomach on SoHo Street, NYPD Says
  14. What To Do When Construction Noise Becomes Too Much To Handle
  15. Man Gropes Woman, Pushes her Onto 14th Street Subway Tracks, NYPD Says
  16. Black Deliveryman Says Famed Butcher Gave Him a Noose: Police Says
  17. Albany Budget Deal Ends Practice of Charging Nonviolent Teens as Adults
  18. The NYU Hawk Camera Is Back Up and Ready for Eggs to Hatch
  19. Tyson Beckford’s Nephew Convicted For Killing MTA Bus Driver in Crash
  20. NYPD Releases New Photos of Village Restaurateur’s Attackers
  21. Here’s What to Order at EggSlut’s 3-Month SoHo Residency
  22. Trash Cans Will Return to Subway Stations After Failed Bid To Stop Litter
  23. 2 Attackers anted for Robbing Restaurateur Silvano Marchetto: NYPD Says
  24. Liberal Seeks Conservatives to Broaden His Perspective, Fliers Say
  25. Barry Diller-Funded Park Plan Slapped Down by Judge
  26. Man Survives Getting hit by Train After Falling on Tracks, Officials Say
  27. Preet Bharara to Join NYU Law School as Distinguished Scholar
  28. Nearly 50-Year-Old Village Tutoring Program Expanding to Brooklyn
  29. Cornelia Street Café Struggling With High Rent After 40 Years in Village
  30. Woman Suffers Life-Threatening Injury as Bike Hits her on 14th Street: NYPD Says
  31. Celebrate International Women’s Day With These New York Events
  32. Backpack-Wearing Victim Mugged at Broadway-Lafayette B Train Station: NYPD Says
  33. Name New West Village School After Jane Jacobs, Preservationists Urge City
  34. Sicilian Seafood Restaurant Opening in SoHo
  35. Canadian Tourist Choked in Hotel Room With Hair Dryer Cord
  36. New Coffee Shop Opening Near NYU in Greenwich Village
  37. Gang Assaults 2 Men of $250 Sneakers in SoHo, NYPD Says
  38. Lawyers Want Guilty Verdict in Patz Case Thrown Out Over Jury Contamination
  39. Restore $65M Cut From MTA Budget, City Transit Officials Tell Cuomo
  40. Sentencing Postponed in Etan Patz Murder Trial
  41. Man Punches NYPD Officer When Questioned About Breaking a Vase in SoHo
  42. NYC Schools Vow to keep Transgender Rules on Bathrooms Amid Trump’s Changes
  43. Police Looking For Man Who Masturbated on B Train, NYPD Says
  44. People are Asking $1K on eBay for $5.50 ‘Supreme’-Branded MetroCards
  45. NYU Students to Protest Trump Adviser on School’s Board of Trustees
  46. Meg Ryan’s SoHo Loft Up for Sale at $10.9 Million
  47. F Train Weekend Disruptions Necessary to Replace 1930s-Era Equipment: MTA
  48. Where to Watch the Oscars in New York City
  49. Australians Open New Café in Greenwich Village
  50. Greenwich Village Trattoria Launches First-Ever Brunch Menu (February 20, 2017)

 

Los Angeles Times: South Bronx tag - All-Web
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-       Residents of low-income South Bronx want reassurance amid Legionnaire’s disease crisis
-       South Bronx Legionnaires’ disease death toll rises to seven
-       South Bronx Legionnaires’ disease outbreak: Contaminated cooling towers found
-       L.A.’s Ghetto Film School teaches moviemaking to disadvantaged youths

  • A former social worker, Hall launched the nonprofit, not-for-credit school in 2000 out to a small storefront in the South Bronx. He was motivated in part, he said, by his experience while attending film school at USC — where he saw a lack of minorities and their perspectives.

-       Florist to the mob had offers he couldn’t refuse
-       South Coast Repertory announces lineup
-       On Theater: An odd couple for the corn belt in ‘The Roommate’

  • She rents a room in her home to Robyn, a pot-smoking, vegan lesbian from the Bronx, who’s lived outside the law for years and views Iowa as her informal witness protection program

-       In ‘The Roommate,’ rising playwright Jen Silverman follows two 54-year-old women at a crossroads

 

BBC: South Bronx tag - All-Web
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-       World Have Your Say: Live from South Bronx, NYC

  • Today, stories of poverty and deprivation from the South Bronx, within sight of Manhattan

-       The Forum: The Birth of Hip Hop
-       Meet the artist behind Beyonce’s pregnancy photo
-       The Huey Show: Semtex’s history of hip-hop
-       Food Programme: A Bronx Food Tale

  • New York’s South Bronx is still one of the city’s most deprived areas; low incomes, unemployment and health problems abound.

-       Looking for the Perfect Beat
-       Legionnaires’ outbreak widens to 12 dead in New York
-       Baz Luhrmann to make Netflix musical

  • It will follow a group of teenagers from downtrodden, crime-ridden South Bronx

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  • 740 Park Avenue – an exclusive apartment building in Manhattan – is currently home to more billionaires than any other building in the United States. Less than five miles to the north is another Park Avenue in the South Bronx, where almost 40 per cent live in poverty and life prospects are less promising for those stuck at the bottom of the American pile.

-       Fish farming in a high-rise world

  • A movement in the dilapidated South Bronx called “aquaponics”

-       Graffiti murals honour victims of gun crime in New York
-       BBC Radio 1Xtra’s Stories: Chris Lighty: Hip Hop’s Money Man

  • Both broke out from poverty in the South Bronx by utilizing street-smarts

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-       Sotomayor fends off Senate questions
-       Mother with the Hat: Is the title a blessing or curse?
-       Teaching farming in the Bronx

  • If you had to choose the least likely location for the birthplace of a green education revolution, you might well pick the South Bronx in New York City.

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  • Kirsty visits Lincoln Hospital, in the South Bronx, where they’ve introduced a scheme to allow artists and performers without health insurance to trade their creative talents for treatment.

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  • Matthew Bannister speaks with Tanya Fields, a single mum and community activist from one of America’s poorest neighbourhoods, the South Bronx.

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-       ‘Real life superheroes’ fighting crime in New York

  • Tonight, NYI members are patrolling the notorious South Bronx projects, looking for troublemakers and their victims.
  • Around us in the South Bronx is evidence of drug dealing.

-       Friars take good works to Derry

  • We always live in areas that are noted for poverty and problems such as Moyross or the South Bronx.

-        ‘Try teaching’ scheme is booming

  • The South Bronx is still rife with crime and poverty and each morning the students go through the airport-style security.
  • The South Bronx is the poorest congressional district in the country where 50% of residents live below the poverty line.

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  • The dilapidated South Bronx

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  • Then there is Chris Eubank, a man from south London who spent his teenage years in New York’s bombed-out South Bronx

-       Confession clears man of murder

  • Reverend descrbied how back in 1989, Jesus Fornes, a sixteen-year-old member of a gang in his tough South Bronx neighbourhood, had told him that he was involved in the killing, and that the two men in jail for the murder had not even been at the scene.

-       Eight children die in NYC inferno
-       Chris Eubank Jr relaxed by comparisons with his father
-       BBC – 1Xtra – Basement
-       BBC election bus video diary

  • New York has the distinction of being home to the poorest and richest congressional districts in the country in the Upper East Side of Manhattan and the South Bronx respectively.
  • Working on the polluted Bronx River children also learn how to maintain ecosystems and clean up waste.
  • We also talked about the issues facing voters and children in the Bronx that other Americans may not have to face.

-       The secret ghostwriters of Hip Hop

  • Emerging from the poverty and deprivation of New York’s South Bronx neighbourhood in the 1970s, rap gave the voiceless a voice.

-       Villagers hit back at cycle Mag
-       BBC – Radio 1Xtra – Black History – 1987
-       Building a healthier and greener New York
-       New Music: Chicks on Speed
-       Hip hop: The culture of getting rich

  • Initially confined to two of America’s most notorious ghettos — Harlem and the South Bronx in New York City.

-       Has hip-hop grown up?
-       New York’s school for immigrants
-       New York faces up to downturn

  • The city also contains the poorest Congressional district in the entire US, located in the South Bronx and represented in the House of Representatives by Jose Serrano.

-       Rap pioneer’s sound success story
-       Rise of the cyber doorman
-       Accra reclaims hip-hop

  • Everything that happened in the South Bronx with hip-hop is what’s happening here, except we don’t have any guns.

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-       Crashed NY Metro-North train was ‘over speed limit’
-       BBC – Radio 1Xtra – Black History Month – 1987
-       Hundreds rally for Diallo
-       Silver jubilee for first rap hit
-       Dogs on the New York ‘cat walk’

  • Rottweilers are the preferred choice in 10473, the South Bronx, where the people are tough.

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-       New York’s ‘good and bad’ blackouts

  • Pictures of the president standing amid devastation of the sort most Americans associated with bombed European cities during World War II shocked people throughout the country and made the South Bronx the national emblem of urban collapse.

-       John Gotti: The Teflon Don

  • John Gotti was not pre-destined for a life of crime, but his childhood in the South Bronx of New York did not offer attractive alternatives.

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-       Colin Powell: The Republican’s trump card

  • Was brought up in the poor South Bronx area of New York City
    -       NY tense as police acquitted

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-       N America power up – slowly
-       Rat scourge in New York

  • Sure, they are swarming over Harlem, causing panic in the South Bronx, creating a siege mentality in the more squalid housing estates of the lower east side.

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