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Running the length of Brooklyn, into Queens, up First Avenue in Manhattan, through the Bronx and then back down Fifth Avenue into Central Park, distinctions between neighborhoods melted away in my mind along with the miles. A vibrant crowd of Italians and Asians, Puerto Ricans and Hassidim, Greeks and Mexicans, whites and blacks lined the course continuously, from start to finish. Running alongside such a crowd, exchanging salutes with a group of police officers, high-fiving a row of wide-eyed children, waving to the passengers in the tram and to the clattering El as its air horn blared...
...ethnic vote proved critical for both candidates; Green, who squeaked by popular Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer in a bitter primary contest, was depending heavily on the city's black Democrats to keep his bid alive. Latinos, on the other hand, seemed more inclined to vote for Bloomberg, if only to signal their disgust for Ferrer's erstwhile competition...
...Wednesday morning, mayor-elect Bloomberg took to the streets to thank his supporters and joined Fernando Ferrer for breakfast in the Bronx. Obviously exhausted by Tuesday's late-night dramatics, Bloomberg was nonetheless in a voluble mood. On his way to another post-election meeting, the businessman stopped to remind reporters of a campaign promise he intends to keep: He will accept only $1 of the mayor's annual $195,000 salary...
...baseball fans. It was to the city of New York, to represent them and bring a smile to their face." Downtown, in the Battery, the smoldering pyre of the World Trade Center was grudgingly yielding the bodies of fire fighters and cops killed in the attack. Uptown, in the Bronx, Yankee Stadium had become a cathedral of catharsis, the participants emptying their lungs at full volume, as if exhaling a cheer for Jorge Posada ("Hip hip Hor-hay!") might rid them of some of the pain and anxiety of Sept...
Oddly, this team, although loaded with all the stars that owner George Steinbrenner's lucre could buy, has never resembled the arrogant Yankees of old. The Bronx Zoo of the late '70s, that toxic team of loudmouthed egos like Reggie Jackson and angry drunks like Billy Martin, has been succeeded by a collection of circumspect, workaday millionaires who get along well and play hard. It is also a team that understands loss and suffering. In the past two years, the fathers of star players O'Neill, Scott Brosius and Bernie Williams died lingering deaths during the course of the season...