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Growing up among a family of Irish immigrants in the Bronx, Sweeney saw firsthand the power of organized labor. His father, a unionized New York City bus driver, received salary and vacation benefits unavailable to his mother, a domestic worker...
...draw a straight a line from something like the painting of a mural in the Bronx for a missing friend to what you now see on Facebook," said Sree Sreenivasan, a professor of social media at the Columbia School of Journalism...
...show; Avatar should have piled up enough little-people statuettes in the intervening three hours to keep the masses satisfied. The big threat to big ratings, as of mid-afternoon Sunday, is that the show may not be seen by millions of viewers in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Westchester county and on Long Island. Disney, in a dispute with the cable supplier Cablevision, last night shut down Cablevision's access to WABC, the country's most-watched local TV station, on which the Oscars are to be shown. Although the show can be seen online, and on Hulu...
...crop of Harlem politicians know that measuring up to their predecessors' accomplishments is impossible. "They are absolutely historic figures," says New York state assemblyman Keith Wright, who represents the district. "Without Percy, Charlie, Basil and Dinkins, you probably wouldn't have this number of [politicians] in Brooklyn, in the Bronx, in Queens. They're pioneers." But Wright acknowledges that the power they accumulated is now flowing elsewhere - to the outer boroughs of New York City and to cities like Chicago, President Barack Obama's adopted hometown...
...picture is worth a thousand words—and a few thousand worthless ones. An article in The New York Times titled “A Desolate Princess of the Bronx? Not Then, Not Now” provides evidence of how easy it is to misinterpret an image. The iconic picture published on Halloween 1991 that showed then-six-year-old Guissette Muniz standing alone amidst a scene of urban poverty provoked readers of the newspaper to contact the family offering gifts or expenses-paid travel opportunities—yet Muniz herself never felt impoverished. With two employed parents...