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That same day, a yellow Cadillac skidded to a stop alongside an empty lot in The Bronx. Two men jumped out, dragging a six-foot-long wooden crate. After dousing it with gasoline they ignited it, jumped back into the car and drove off. A witness who had noted the Cadillac's license number immediately called the police. The crate contained the charred corpse of John Tupper, beaten, shot several times and repeatedly stabbed. When police spotted the Cadillac, they found Jacobson at the wheel. The next day, they charged him with murder...
...worst years, a certain begrimed anxiety hung in the air. New York City was an interminably terminal case, its official death notice reprinted weekly. Bonds came due; corporations bailed out for Connecticut, the Sunbelt, anywhere. Citizens could paraphrase the municipal hymn New York, New York: "The Bronx is up/ And the battery's dead." They envisioned weeds pushing up through the stones of Rockefeller Center, Roseland reverting to jungle. Watching the parade of garbage strikes and pedestrians high-stepping in a rage among the dogmerde, New Yorkers could imagine themselves being a little like the sailors on Joseph Conrad...
...possible to romance too much about New York: anyone rhapsodizing that "anything is possible" in the city must acknowledge that the anything has a dark and even unspeakable side-slum miseries, ghettos like the South Bronx burning themselves out, and horripilating parlors of decadence, catering to the most specialized of the perverse. Much of the rest of the nation regards New York as a cautionary tale, the urban exemplar of everything that can go wrong: poverty, pollution, crime, racial conflict, corrupt and stupid government, dirt, traffic, immorality and, no doubt, sinful pride...
...preparatory school and it is imperative that I live in my original choice of houses, Eliot House, of course. I felt so very isolated and well, kind of lost when I had to live in there was one person in my dormitory who went to public highschool in the Bronx? Well, you can imagine what Mommy and Daddy had to say when they heard this...
...some genuine blood, you should definitely park yourself in front of the tube for the three-game series between the Yanks and Bosox, broadcast live from the beautiful Bronx on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. This could well mean the season, or at least a couple of broken bones--the blood between these two teams may well be bad, but it's usually pretty much in evidence...