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...Bronx Primitive by Kate Simon. A leading travel writer voyages back to her childhood for an unsentimental assessment of immigrant life and her coming of age in New York, circa...
...gang of at least three thieves that hit the Bronx-based Sentry Armored Car Courier Co. went about their business with remarkable efficiency. Near midnight two of the bandits, dressed in ski masks and gloves, climbed onto the roof of the two-story Sentry building. Using metal-cutting tools, they sawed a 2-ft. hole in the roof and lowered themselves down a rope. Armed with a double-barrel shotgun, they gagged and handcuffed the only guard on duty. A crowbar was used to break the locks off the metal door to the basement "money room." There, some $30 million...
Wilfred Figueroa, a butcher from the Bronx, recently spent what he called "his first and only day" as Santa overlooking Rockefeller Center, soliciting donations for the Volunteers of America. The stint was a favor for a friend who couldn't do it that day. Figueroa explains, as he sits in costume ringing a bell while early holiday shoppers walk by. Doing this is fun, though it's bit cold," he says. "But this is something people should do at least once." He notes, however, that there are some restrictions Santas have to abide by. "I tried to catch a smoke...
Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981): Some good moments, I guess...
...grew up in a family that took under its wing everything from orphaned racoons and birds to stray kinkajous and bush babies, all of whom made ready subjects for photographs. "We never went out and bought anything," Young explains. "We just took in animals we found or that the [Bronx] Zoo unloaded on my sisters who worked there. We only kept them to rehabilitate them and set them free...