Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Julissa Reynoso '97 grew up in the South Bronx. The daughter of parents who immigrated illegally, she currently supports her mother and sister, and helps to pay for her college education...
Ramos agrees. "I was surprised by the amount of money students had here. I was surprised a lot of black people weren't on financial aid either. From where I was from, all the black people were poor," says the South Bronx resident, who is Puerto Rican...
...Bronx every other month," Reynoso says. "Just taking the train from here--it's like I never see day-light until I get there. Going to the South Bronx is like being in two different worlds in the span of four or five hours. I have to shift my whole mentality, my whole existence. It's not just economic, but social and ethnic as well. I come here and I have to become another person."GraphicsRachel E. Kramer...
Last but not least will be Yankee Stadium. The House That Ruth Built could very well become The House That Ruthless Had Built for Him. Owner George Steinbrenner, who for years has been trashing the stadium's Bronx neighborhood while making eyes at New Jersey, is being massaged by New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is backing a proposal for a billion-dollar SkyDome knockoff on Manhattan's West Side...
...year can still imagine Mickey Mantle gliding across the outfield. The wish list of one megalomaniac seems to take precedence over the welfare of millions. Instead of giving the billion to George, why not sprinkle some of it over the school system and some of it over the Bronx, and renew New York City? As it is, Yankee Stadium is one of the few places in the city where cultures and ages and incomes still mix. People who watched the Yankees' home opener on television three weeks ago marveled at the snow; people who were there marveled at the warmth...