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...committee produced little solid evidence against Bergman, but witnesses did document the dreadful conditions that prevail in many homes. A physician from Morrisania City Hospital said that patients were frequently brought to the emergency room in a coma from dehydration because no one bothered to see that they drank water. They were also dangerously debilitated by infected bedsores that developed when they were left lying neglected on coarse sheets. A nurse, who worked as an inspector for the New York City health department, reported that a nursing home had failed to notify officials of a serious diarrhea epidemic. A surprise...
...found that by 10 a.m. on Monday there were no further openings. She went to an employment agency that offered a $95-a-week switchboard job (for which she would have had to pay a $133 finder's fee), but that job never opened up. "I went to Morrisania Hospital because I heard they were hiring, but they told me there was nobody to interview me and they would contact me," she says. "I went back two weeks later, but nothing was available." Next she went to United Parcel "because I was told there were jobs. At least they...
...even larger without "economies" that have grievously hurt the quality of life. A prohibition on hiring shrank the city's police force by 800 cops last year, despite a level of street crime that makes many New Yorkers barricade themselves in their apartments after sundown. At the overcrowded Morrisania City Hospital in The Bronx, a new obstetrics wing is kept locked because there is no money to hire anyone to operate it. Slashes in city support of the New York Public Library have forced it to reduce its operating hours from 78 to 40 per week, and to close many...
Countless forgotten ghettos--Williamsberg, Coney Island, Morrisania, the South Bronx, the Upper West Side --are learning that to get anything from a high school to a recreation program, a community must be organized and must show that it can be a trouble maker if it is not well cared for. "I can't exactly tell people to get out in the streets,"' explained one Board of Education leader in the South Bronx, "but that's what they'll have to do to get schools...
...arrivals spilled over into ghettos in the other boroughs, creating huge new Harlems: Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant, whose population has trebled since 1940 and is soon expected to pass Harlem itself; South Jamaica-St. Albans in Queens, where the Negro population has trebled in a single decade; Morrisania in the Southeast Bronx. Together with Harlem, the four ghettos house 80% of New York's Negroes...