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From the desk of... The sequence to success

Jul 07, 2017 03:37 am

The Bronx, the only one of New York City's five boroughs that is on the American mainland, once had a sociological as well as geographical distinction.
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Man with bulletproof vest, knives busted trying to get into Trump Tower

Jul 07, 2017 01:34 am

A 52-year-old man wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying two throwing knives was busted last night trying to get into Trump Tower. Adames Benitez, of The Bronx, said he was a US Senator and wanted to see President Trump's daughter Ivanka, who is traveling with her father and the rest of his presidential party in Europe, authorities said.
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The Sequence Of Success

Jul 07, 2017 01:01 am

In the third quarter of the 20th century, however, there came, particularly in the South Bronx, social regression that Daniel Patrick Moynihan described as "an Armageddonic collapse that I do not believe has its equal in the history of urbanization." The Bronx, the only one of New York City's five boroughs that is on the American mainland, once had a sociological as well as geographical distinction.
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Cop killer was a hellraiser in prison

Jul 06, 2017 10:36 pm

... role when he gunned down NYPD Officer Miosotis Familia, a mother of three , as she sat in a mobile command post in The Bronx.
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Jul 06, 2017 09:35 pm

... President Trump and other world leaders attending the G20 Summit meeting. The day after a cop was assassinated in The Bronx, de Blasio skipped an afternoon swearing-in ceremony for 524 new NYPD recruits ahead of his flight overseas. A last-minute ...
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Bystander caught in NYPD assassination crossfire 'can barely sleep'

Jul 06, 2017 08:36 pm

The bystander who was accidentally shot following the assassination of an NYPD cop said Thursday that he "can barely sleep" - and is "still in pain." In an exclusive interview with The Post, Asuncion Bautista said he was stepping out of his apartment building in The Bronx when he took a stray bullet to gut.
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Assemblywoman De La Rosa Talks About Wrapping Her First Session in Albany

Jul 06, 2017 07:19 pm

Albany might have brought its session to an end last month, but for State Assemblywoman Carmen De La Rosa, work in the community is just getting started. De La Rosa, who beat out incumbent Guillermo Linares last September to represent the 72nd District overseeing Northern Manhattan and The Bronx, is a born-and-bred Inwood resident who touted her track record of work with State Assemblyman Danny O'Donnell from the Upper West Side as well as her role as Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez's chief of staff.
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De Blasio races to Germany to protest G20 summit

Jul 06, 2017 06:11 pm

Mayor Bill de Blasio is jetting off to Germany on Thursday to protest President Trump and other world leaders attending the G20 Summit meeting. The day after a cop was assassinated in The Bronx , de Blasio skipped an afternoon swearing-in ceremony for 524 new NYPD recruits ahead of his flight overseas.
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George F. WillWe know the cure for poverty - but not how to apply it

Jul 06, 2017 05:38 pm

The Bronx, the only one of New York City's five boroughs that is on the American mainland, once had a sociological as well as geographical distinction. In the 1930s it was called, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan noted, "the city without a slum."
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NYPD commissioner says slain cop's work 'is not finished'

Jul 06, 2017 05:38 pm

... the new cadets "are questioning whether, you're making the right decision, especially after yesterday's tragedy in The Bronx." "It's worth it," he said. "When you look back on today you'll remember that this is one of the most triumphant moments in ...
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The NYPD is making its vehicles bulletproof

Jul 06, 2017 05:36 pm

"We're in the process of retrofitting all of oura police carsa we started the vehicles that are on patrol right now," Police Commissioner James O'Neill said Thursday - one day after Familia was fatally shot as she sat in an NYPD mobile command center in The Bronx. The original plan called for the retrofitting of the department's more than 3,800 patrol vehicles and not the command vehicles like the one Familia was in when she was shot by cop-hating ex-con Alexander Bonds.
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What comes before the baby in the baby carriage? A diploma and marriage

Jul 06, 2017 12:11 pm

The success sequence, which a decreasing number of young Americans follow, is this: First get at least a high school diploma, then get a job, then get married, and only then have children. The Bronx, the only one of New York City's five boroughs that is on the American mainland, once had a sociological as well as geographical distinction.
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Poverty and Behavior: Three Cheers for Marriage and Work

Jul 06, 2017 08:48 am

... argues in a must-read article that the most important causes of poverty are behavioral. He cites the example of the Bronx, one of New York's five boroughs, which was in the 1930s "a city without a slum" (the words are from Daniel Patrick Moynihan). ...
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The Bronx mourns a 'good cop,' a neighbor and mother of three

Jul 06, 2017 06:13 am

... faced, she suited up in uniform everyday and stood tall against those who threaten and terrorize the good folks of the Bronx." After suffering a leg injury from a fall while on duty in 2014, Familia refused to retire from the police force, even when ...
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