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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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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28 November 2011
Albanian-Americans celebrated their heritage at an annual gala dinner
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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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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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21 November 2011
Taino Mayor gives its customers a taste of the sounds and souvenirs of Puerto Rico in the Bronx.
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21 November 2011
Local residents fear the new housing development may price them out of the neighborhood they helped to revive.
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