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...four youths who were shot while menacing Bernhard Goetz on a New York City subway in December 1984 gained nationwide attention as victims of a trigger- happy vigilante. Now they are attracting attention for another reason. Last week James Ramseur, 19, was convicted of raping a woman in the Bronx last May; he faces a prison sentence of up to 25 years. On the same day, a New York justice ordered Barry Allen, 20, to serve the remainder of a four-year term for robbery after Allen broke his parole by stealing a gold chain. Troy Canty, 20, was sentenced...
Archbishop Yesehaq (pronounced Isaac) of the central Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic church in the Bronx tells me that no American named Bruce Williams or in any way following his description is a member, let alone a minister of that Church. George Wald Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus
Last week Lindenauer was also charged with making "false representations" to gain a $22.7 million parking-bureau computer contract for Citisource, a company partly owned by Stanley Friedman, the Bronx Democratic Party leader and a Koch supporter. As the scandal was breaking, Lindenauer's supervisor, Transportation Commissioner Anthony Ameruso, resigned, as did the director of investigations, the city's anticorruption chief. As many as eight separate city, state and federal investigations are looking into allegations of corruption within various city agencies. "My administration," Koch admitted ruefully, "lost the distance and the controls I had to maintain in order to avoid...
Similar bijoux abound in Simon's books about England and, of all places, the Bronx. The northernmost borough of New York City was the setting for the author's childhood, recounted with striking imagery and emotional precision in Bronx Primitive (1982). It too is a sort of travel book. A four-year-old Kate and her rachitic younger brother are transported thousands of miles from Poland to the U.S. at the end of World War I. The girl discovers the American air to be full of strange odors and foreign languages, especially English. She is part of a typical "Jewish...
...certainly more to Simon's adolescence than this risky business. She studies literature at Hunter College, sells lipsticks at Woolworth, pastes fake diamonds into junk jewelry, and sits as a designer's model. But in posing for her own self-portrait, Simon has found a true vocation. Together, Bronx Primitive and A Wider World qualify as a minor American classic...