Neighborhoods in the Bronx

twenty four years old. He was raised in a small town of Pennsylvania called Reading. He moved to the Bronx when he was about seven years old with his parents and sisters. He was affiliated with the bloods for three years. The other victim was Allen Diaz of twenty of twenty one years old. He came to the United States when he was four years old with his mother. He lived his entire life in the Bronx since he came from Dominican Republic. He was affiliated with the Bloods for five years. Allen was…

your question, gang violence began to rise in New York because during this time the economy was dramatically suffering and ultimately white, upper class families were moving out of these desolate neighborhoods, while poorer people of color were forced to remain in these neighborhoods even as their quality of life became to also deteriorate. Apartments began to suffer as many did not have running water but were scouring with rats, and renters were often times unable to pay their rent.…

Crotona Park East in the South Bronx is a prominently Latin American neighborhood and a poverish one as well. Although it may have a negative outlook to experience what is within is quite different. Latino in New York is embracing traditions that one withheld in our origin countries. Things that resembles…

people wrong. Jamal was a boy from the bronx in a bad neighborhood, who went to a bad school. Everyone he encountered pulled him down they were the crabs in the bottom of the bucket he was the one who wanted to get to the top and people did not like that he had a chance to do better than them. Although Jamal climbed out of the bucket he was pulled down by William, Crawford, and the neighborhood he was in. The one thing…

Since I was born, New York City has been my life, my blood, and bones; I have grown and lived with many different people with different backgrounds. My neighborhoods have shaped me into who I am today, I am flexible and open, like raw clay, enough to be changed and formed. Then there is the Bronx, a borough of New York, where you have to be strong, or you will not survive, a place where all races are together, and everyone is noisy. I live in a community where there are mostly Hispanics, and…

She relates the fact that in the late 40s South Bronx neighborhoods where getting filled with whites and discrimination against blacks and possibly other minorities was prevalent with the use of red-lining by banks and the idea that landlords developed that burning down their buildings would be a more profitable…

By definition, a border is “a line separating two political or geographical areas, especially countries, or an edge along or beside something.” In society, borders act as geographic boundaries, but also as boundaries separating people, culture, and ideologies. In the United States of America, borders act as boundaries between both states and cultures. Additionally, boundaries in America stand between itself, and other countries, specifically Mexico. Borderlands, according to its definition, are…

police officers follow that many times create that police misconduct and police brutality stay under the rug, without been penalized. In the movie Fort Apache the Bronx it portrayed how police corruption, misconduct and unethical behavior were part of their daily work just because they followed certain codes…

is a portion that separates Coney Island from Manhattan Beach. It has a small boardwalk where many of the local businesses have settled down for years. People know the area to be a small and close friendly neighborhood. However, there are more sightings of condos being built in this neighborhood that was once filled with big houses and small stores. In this ethnographic fieldwork, I am going to investigate how the residents of the Bay are responding to the construction of condos being built…

E said that in New York city, neighborhood and school are basically segregated. Poor neighborhood together, middle togethers and high togethers. The good professors go to the richest neighborhood to teach the rich children while the inexperienced one go to the low income families and poor. In New York we have the Bronx as an example the South Bronx is the low income or poor the in the same city, just at the north we have River there which is the rich part of the Bronx. Basically poor stay poor…