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...example, magnet schools in New York City like Hunter College High School, with 10 students in the College's Class of 1993, Bronx Science High School, with eight, and Stuyvesant High School, with 15, have all joined the large feeder school list...
...people, which means everybody gets the same service at the same rate. Compared to almost any other country, we are certainly the cheapest postal service and probably the best and getting better. People don't seem to understand. Would companies compete for Manhattan? Yes. Would they compete for the Bronx? I don't think...
What seemed like ordinary bags of heroin hit the bazaars of the South Bronx early this month. Dubbed "Tango & Cash," the product sold for $10 a bag. By the end of last week, the drug had killed six people in New York, seven in New Jersey and two in Connecticut; 213 overdosed addicts wound up in emergency rooms. Preliminary tests indicate that the drug is fentanyl, a tranquilizer described as "150 to 6,000 times more potent than morphine...
Ungar, 44 and Bronx born, was a founding member of a jolly, one-hit '60s rock band, Cat Mother and the All-Night Newsboys. He has been running a fiddle-and-dance workshop every August for 12 years at the State University of New York, New Paltz, Ashokan Field Campus in the Catskill Mountains. It was shortly after the conclusion of the 1982 session that Ungar, feeling particularly sad, reached for his fiddle and cassette recorder and set down Ashokan Farewell. Inspired musically by 19th century Scottish laments, Ungar's song was "so special that I didn't play...
...most important service that Street Beat offers is friendly and helpful contact beyond the hard streets of the Bronx. "We provide some dignity and respect," says Zayas. "It is sometimes all they get." Alice finishes eating her cheese-and-bologna sandwich and gets ready to head back outside. "Street Beat is good," she says. "No one else helps. If they didn't help, these kids would be dead...