Falling trees and power outages posed the biggest threats to residents who weren’t living in high-risk flood zones as Hurricane Sandy ripped through the Bronx.
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Hurricane Sandy Leaves Behind Fallen Trees, Power Outages Along South Coast of Bronx
Posted on 30 October 2012.
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Sandy Batters Eastern Coast of the Bronx
Posted on 30 October 2012.
Hurricane Sandy hit the Southeast shores of the Bronx Monday evening causing extensive damage across residential areas.
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West African Patients Lost in Translation
Posted on 27 October 2012.
Before the Diaspora Clinic opened, health workers at the Martin Luther King Hospital found that many patients who speak minority languages ended up in emergency rooms.
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Why are So Many Highbridge Students Unprepared for College?
Posted on 26 October 2012.
Only 13 percent of the neighborhood’s high school students are ready to go to college when they graduate.
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State Pulls Funding from Highbridge’s only Mental Health Clinic for Children
Posted on 25 October 2012.
Astor at Highbridge, a mental health clinic for children and adolescents in the Highbridge section of the Bronx, will lose three-quarters of its funding from New York State by next year.
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Raising The Age: One Step Towards Fixing The Juvenile Criminal System
Posted on 23 October 2012.
A campaign aimed at helping young offenders may be reaching a critical turning point
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Bronx Students Protest Presence of Police School Safety Officers
Posted on 22 October 2012.
New York Police Department School Safety Division data reveals that 30 percent of the total arrests and 51 percent of the total summons were issued in the Bronx.
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Obama the Favorite in this Bronx Barbershop
Posted on 18 October 2012.
Ghanaian immigrants may be 5,000 miles away from their homeland, but they are deeply engaged in America’s presidential election.
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