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...called on one John Green, a young Negro he had known in prison, "bought" a .22 pistol from him for $20, and invited Green along because he had "a good job setup in The Bronx." On the way, they prowled a dark Greenwich Village street, stuck up a frightened couple and stole $12. But by 12:30, as he led Green aimlessly around The Bronx, it became embarrassingly evident that he hadn't really planned a big robbery...
Johnny is a husky youth of 20, but he was holding his mother's hand as they rode the ferry last week from The Bronx to North Brother Island in the East River. For Johnny, like most of the first half-dozen young addicts admitted to New York City's Riverside Hospital, was a mama's boy. From an underprivileged Harlem family, Johnny had taken to dope largely to prove that he was no sissy...
Some of the best modern writers have been self-conscious artists, working for the admiration of small followings and often requiring cabalistic analysis before they could be fully understood. Not, however, Sholom Aleichem, the Ukraine-born Yiddish humorist who died in The Bronx 36 years ago. Sholom Aleichem (real name: Solomon Rabinowitz) was a genuine folk artist. Between himself and his Yiddish public throughout the world there was an instinctive understanding; they could grasp his twists of idiom, his slightest reference to a Torah phrase or a ghetto custom...
...summer morning in the early '20s, a tough little boy hung by his fingers from a tenement cornice, five stories above a littered Bronx street. Leaning on their window sills, Jules Garfinkle's neighbors gawked and gasped. Jules pulled himself back up on the roof and proudly collected his dime bet. Except for fighting in the streets, he liked nothing better than making easy money by showing...
Jules's mother died when he was seven; his father, a presser in a garment factory, never found time to curb his son's surly, defiant spirit. At last, street-brawling, hooky-playing Jules was sent to Bronx P.S. 45, where the principal, famed Child Rehabilitator Angelo Patri, was doing his able best to teach unruly kids...