Nutrition support from Soundview Health Center saved this Bronx grandmother’s life. With the center under threat of closure, others might not be so lucky.
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Struggling to keep Soundview healthy
Posted on 21 October 2011.
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Despite controversy, nun still calls Hunts Point home
Posted on 20 October 2011.
Sister Thomas has been in the area for decades and she has no plans to leave now.
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Rebel Diaz: A musical legacy of activism
Posted on 12 October 2011.
“The drive we have is unstoppable,” Rodstarz said, “because we carry the weight of history on our shoulders.”
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Juan Rios travels the world to return to the Bronx
Posted on 11 October 2011.
Juan Rios runs the Highbridge Life Center’s Healthy Highbridge program where he, among other things, has championed the city’s recent smoking ban in parks and beaches. Rios also created a health curriculum for the students of P.S. 73.
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“The Poetry Man” filmmaker gives back
Posted on 09 October 2011.
Throgs Neck high school teacher realized that poetry, and later, film had saved him from the poverty, drugs and violence that engulfed him growing up.
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Bronx synagogue welcomes Jewish New Year with a last goodbye
Posted on 03 October 2011.
Lifelong congregants of Temple Emanuel at Parkchester say other synagogues in the Bronx are also experiencing precipitous declines in membership
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Riding camels in the Bronx
Posted on 17 September 2010.
The Bronx Zoo has been offering camel rides for half a century.
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Characters of softball, the real Bronx pastime
Posted on 17 May 2010.
In the 1980s, Bronx softball games could attracted crowds of hundreds and $10,000 worth of bets. One team was particularly adept at taking that cash: a crew known as The Bandits. Last year, they reunited.
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