Neighborhoods in the Bronx

discusses the community health assessment of Baychester, New York located in the Bronx. The reason I choose Baychester for my windshield survey is because it is where I grew up and spent most of my childhood. I have lived in baychester for nearly 15 years, the town of baychester gives me the utmost joy and happiness; seeing people who is of the same heritage and culture as me in my surroundings. Everyone in this neighborhood is close-knit and considers each other family. From my surveillance, I…

In the excerpt “Amazing Grace” by Jonathan Kozol, a reporter and a activist, is about a place in New York city, called South Bronx where he explores the neighborhood around a beautiful old church called Saint Ann’s, with a charming seven year old little boy named Cliffie. In the most diseased and dangerous places in the USA, he finds grace. Cliffie shows Kozol a lot of places while eating cookies. The author chooses to share this to show how hard it is for the people, but still, they are happy.…

Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning,” discusses the political, economical, and social fall of New York in 1977. The term originated in 1972 after a documentary series episode of the same title was aired. The term became more socially recognized during the 1977 World Series game where the New York Yankees faced the Los Angles Dodgers. Helicopter camera views show video clips of actual fires during the arson breakout caused by the economic fall of the South Bronx during the 1970s. Socially, the Bronx…

Stop-and-Frisk Policy Review According to the Washington Post article “Here’s what you need to know about stop and frisk — and why the courts shut it down” by Dylan Matthews, Stop and Frisk is “an NYPD policy wherein police will detain and question pedestrians, and potentially search them, if they have a reasonable suspicion that the pedestrian in question committed, is committing, or is about to commit a felony or a Penal Law misdemeanor” (Matthews). This means that if a person appears…

between gentrification and preservation is a tough one. Professionals have even began asking themselves if gentrification is a positive occurrence. “Gentrification is a double-edged sword. It is often a productive byproduct of revitalizing city neighborhoods, but it can impose great costs on certain individual families and businesses, often those least able to afford them”. Various government policies welcome gentrification as a way to create economic opportunities and improve the quality…

There are multiple factors that come into play regarding our environment: neighborhood, family, friends, religion, school, etc. Humans are constantly under the different influences that surround us, whether we know they are there or not. In Wes Moore’s “The Other Wes Moore” those factors are clear throughout the transitions in the two boy’s lives and how it helped shape who those boys have become today. Both boys started out in similar situations, both without a father and being raised by a…

Lym Adrian Nicole LeBlanc’s Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx (Scribner, 2003) is a compelling nonfiction book that delivers an incredibly honest and thought-provoking look into a dysfunctional family plagued with drugs, sexual abuse, crime and murder. This book is truly amazing. 

The book begins in the mid 1980s and focuses on Jessica, a very misguided girl in the South Bronx who continually makes the wrong life choices. Love and a man’s acceptance are first…

mobsters. Much like any powerful mafia, this mobsters in “A Bronx Tale” were a force to be reckoned with. Also known as wise guys, these men took actions into their own hands when it came to crime and punishment. Essentially gaining more fear from people, than actual respect from the community of The Bronx. If you want a movie that will keep your adrenaline pumping, while your half way off your chair, A Bronx Tale is a must see. Based in Bronx County, New York City,…

intertwined epidemics of opioid- related overdose and HIV/HCV, and why we need cultural anthropologists in the South Bronx. The author wrote his experience conducting a portapotty experiment in South Bronx. Professor Curtis and his team rented two luxury portapotties and placed them nearby a site in a “rabbit hole” also known as one of the homeless hotspots neighborhood in South Bronx. Because they were interested in drug related overdoses that occur in public bathrooms. They believed having the…

Albany is its state capital. New York is composed of five boroughs in which there are hundreds of district neighborhoods, many have their own history which defines their own city. The boroughs are: Manahattan - the most densely populated where the Central Park is located. The Bronx - where the Yankee Stadium is located, the home of the New York Yankees They are also famous by their Bronx Zoo, the largest metropolitan zoo in the United States which has over 6,000 animals. The Bornx is the…