His father owned and attended a grocery store in the South Bronx while his mother cared for their eight children at home.
The model has spawned several satellite projects in other cities, such as New Orleans where the Vietnamese fisherman community has suffered from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and in the South Bronx in New York City.
In 2005, Nersesian received the Anahid Literary Prize for Armenian Literature for his novel Unlubricated. Nersesian is the managing editor of the literary magazine, The Portable Lower East Side, and was an English teacher at Hostos Community College, City University of New York, in the South Bronx.
His family was poor, Romano grew up on Simpson Street in the South Bronx and his father worked in a factory that made cigarette holders.
De la Luz, whose parents moved to New York City from Puerto Rico, was born and raised in the South Bronx.
Rodriguez-Trias headed the department of pediatrics at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx.
Isaacs was born in The South Bronx and attended Taft High School.
Jesse West, aka 3rd Eye (born December 4, 1967 in the South Bronx, New York) is a producer/rapper.
His last brother Louis Gigante became an ordained Roman Catholic priest at St. Athanasius Church in the South Bronx and city councilman.
Max Agende Santos (born January 30, 1982 in the South Bronx, New York City) was the bass player of the bachata group Aventura.
Founded in 1987 by business executive and entrepreneur Steve Mariotti, while he was a public high school teacher in New York City’s South Bronx, NFTE was started up as a program to prevent high school dropout and improve academic performance among at-risk urban students.
Neil commented that "We found ourselves locking into these grooves which were incredibly fun to play...We naturally gravitated towards being 'funky'," drawing influence from South Bronx band ESG.
On June 18, 2008, two days after returning from a conference in Berlin, Germany, G1 and RodStarz were arrested by the NYPD when they were showing a friend around the South Bronx.
He was born in Manhattan, but raised by a single mother in the South Bronx during all of the 1970s, the years of that borough's most intense economic privation and grinding poverty.
Father Fortuna established the non-profit Francesco Productions in 1987 as a means to record and distribute evangelical music, video productions and books as well as handle his speaking and concert engagements; all proceeds benefit the Community's work with the poor of the South Bronx where he lives.
After visiting tenements in the South Bronx and Washington, D.C. to discuss with residents how best to address problems with public housing, Butler published a paper for Heritage that introduced the idea Urban Enterprise Zones in the United States.
DiNapoli secretly owned Cambridge Drywall and Inner-City Drywall, which became one of the biggest developers in Harlem and the South Bronx, and received $32 million in city contracts in 1988 alone.
Ted questions where they are going and is terrified to learn they are heading for the South Bronx.
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KIPP Academy Lynn (often referred to as KIPP Lynn) is modeled after the nationally recognized Knowledge Is Power Program in South Bronx, New York and Houston, Texas.
The Lincoln Hospital's acupuncture drug detoxification clinic was founded in the South Bronx by activists involved with The Black Panther Party, The Republic of New Afrika, the Young Lords, and Students for a Democratic Society.