In an excerpt from a new book, Newcomers: Gentrification and Its Discontents, an up-close look at one tenant-landlord dispute shows what’s really happening around the city.
‘In five years of research, apparently endless interviews with citizens of the Bronx, devoted police officers and some of the worst people on the face of the earth.’
Health experts say kids shouldn’t carry loads weighing more than 15 percent of their body weight on their backs.
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