Subway candy seller makes $150 a day
01 December 2011
This candy seller has been hawking M&M's on the D train for 14 years.
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INTERACTIVE MAP: Bronx unemployment by neighborhood
01 December 2011
This interactive map displays the 2010 unemployment rates for each Bronx neighborhood. The darker shade green represents a higher rate of unemployment. Click on each neighborhood to see its statistics and poverty rate. SOURCE: 2010 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates
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Graphic: Unemployment rates in the Bronx from 2005-2010
01 December 2011
Report problems to embedding@chartle.net The chart above shows the effects of the 2008 recession on the soaring unemployment rates experienced in the Bronx, NYC and the nation at large, as well as the gradual economic recovery during the last year. Although the Bronx mostly mirrored economic trends taking place in the rest of the country, […]
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Taking Advil to schools
30 November 2011
As schools nationwide watch budgets dwindle, for-profit companies have stepped in. However, critics see gifts from these companies not as goodwill, but as a way of marketing to children.
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Albanians celebrate together in the Bronx
28 November 2011
Albanian-Americans celebrated their heritage at an annual gala dinner
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Lorelei Fountain survived wars and vandals
24 November 2011
The Lorelei Fountain has had a dramatic history, having faced an ocean and more than a century, wars both abroad and at home, and vandalism and urban renewal.
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Running for president of the Dominican Republic–from the South Bronx
22 November 2011
A Bishop and real estate manager running for president of the Dominican Republic, from a Bronx salsa club.
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