This past Sunday, Pregones held it’s annual block party as the theater celebrated its 34th anniversary. Legendary poets performed, and then there were was the Garifuna band along with dancers entertaining the crowd.
The Garifuna people are an ethnic group of mixed ancestry of Carib, Arawak, and African people and hail from the countries of Belize, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Honduras. The Bronx and the rest of the New York City area is home to the largest Garifuna diaspora outside of Central America.
They closed the wonderful performance by getting folks off their seats and inviting them up front to dance!
It was quite the show and I was able to capture it so check out the videos below!
Garifuna group’s opening act:
We were then treated to this lively number:
This song is called Pachamama which is mother earth or mother world. The singer wrote this song in honor of the earth.
Finally the performance ends with Bronxites getting up and dancing!
Bronx music sensation Leslie Grace continues to wow fans, old and new alike, with her unique blend of Doo-wop and bachata – the music from her parents’ homeland of Dominican Republic.
Known as La Princesa de la Bachata (the Princess of Bachata), Leslie Grace is yet another one of the many success stories to come out from the Bronx all the while doing it as a positive role model for our youth.
“The three best bachata acts from the States have come from the Bronx. Aventura, Prince Royce, and Leslie Grace”, Vargas, who managed one of the largest Bachata Facebook pages, went on to say about the singer.
Fans on YouTube also dished out some praises. One gentleman said, ”
I CAN’T STOP LISTENING TO THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love it…I love the throw back feel…! Great use of a great classic!”
Another one spoke about her appearance by saying, “She presents herself like a lady. I like it!”
This was something that really struck a cord with me since it is a relief to see that since the mainstream media is saturated with the sexualization of women and in particular Latinas (one of the many topics which the folks at UPLIFTT cover)
So with that being said, remember to “UPLIFTT“ our locally, home grown talent!
Published on August 2nd, 2013
Written by: Federica Longo
Leslie Grace has come to be known as the “Princess of Bachata.”
This young girl from the Bronx puts a different twist on things, mixing classic hits from the ’60s with bachata in both English and Spanish.
The daughter of Dominican parents, Grace’s move from her birth city of Davie, Fla., to the Bronx in New York City could explain the uniqueness of her sound. Since the age of two, Grace has been entertaining her five siblings along with her parents, who could only see the inevitable talent she was bound to share with the world.
Leslie Grace sings to the top
The bilingual artist has been hard at work since last year’s Premios Juventud when she released her first single, “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow.” With the release of her new hit album, “Leslie Grace,” this Dominicana is living the dream.
Her modern-day version of “Be My Baby” includes Spanglish lyrics along with the Dominican rhythms for which Grace is becoming so well known. Her musical style continues to top the charts, allowing people to fall in love with her music one song at a time. The song is currently a top 10 single, taking over the radio and climbing up the charts in both the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
Recently having performed her new hit “Be My Baby” at the 2013 Premios Juventud award show, the 18-year-old was able to capture the audience with her voice and performance.
Along with the new song’s success, the album “Leslie Grace” remains in the No. 5 position on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart in its third week of being released. The album includes 11 songs sure to satisfy the ear of people with different tastes. There is a mix of pop and bachata throughout the entire album, along with her famous Spanglish lyrics.
The Dominicana makes history
Back in 2012, the then 17-year-old made Billboard chart history, becoming the youngest female singer to reach a Latin radio No. 1 spot, as “Will U Still Love Me Tomorrow.”
So young and doing so well, the young artist is sure to stay around and shine while giving us all a little of her Dominican flavor.
The new album “Leslie Grace” is available on iTunes. Keep up with “La Princesa de la Bachata” by following herFacebook and Twitter accounts.
From the Daily News: Siegel. Jefferson
Councilwoman Maria Del Carmen Arroyo threw her campaign staff under the bus.
Bronxites should be proud that we are no longer tolerating corrupt politicians and are slowly but surely kicking them out of office.
One of the strongest and corrupt political dynasties of the Bronx, the Arroyo clan, has met its strongest challenge to date, this time as she has been slapped with a lawsuit by challenger Julio Pabón for submitting forged signatures of thousands of individuals.
If she’s found guilty, she will be removed from the ballot come this September 10th for the Democratic primaries for city council in New York City.
Read the full story by Denis Slatery of the Daily News and watch the NY1 segment on the same issue. We’ve consolidated all pieces here for your convenience.
A Bronx Councilwoman whose campaign was rocked by the discovery of obviously forged signatures on her nominating petitions now admits the John Hancocks were fakes — but says she can’t be blamed because it was her campaign staff that committed the fraud!
In a hearing with a court-appointed referee Thursday, Councilwoman Maria del Carmen Arroyo admitted the forgeries — and then filed a formal complaint against her own workers.
“We have concluded that they falsified these documents,” Arroyo said, adding that the only thing she thought she was guilty of was “trusting people too much.”
In essence, Arroyo confirmed what her opponent Julio Pabon already alleged, namely that her petition signatures — which included fakes of Derek Jeter, model Kate Moss and other celebs — are fraudulent.
Pabon says so many of the 3,300 petition signatures filed by Arroyo’s team are forgeries that she should be tossed from the ballot. Eighteen hundred signatures have already been invalidated by the Board of Elections, leaving Arroyo still far above the 450 she needs.
Volunteers working for Pabon first noticed the fraud after finding the celeb signers — who was said to live in a walk-up building in the South Bronx.
But on Thursday, Arroyo claimed she and her mother, Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo, actually first noticed page after page of forgeries in the petitions after they submitted them to the Board of Elections.
The pol, who represents the South Bronx, says she and her staff had nothing to do with the forgeries, but merely trusted a team of people, some of whom have worked for Arroyo in the past, to collect the petitions.
The Councilwoman claims the District Attorney’s office has opened an investigation into the campaign staffers Elbin Lopez, Luis Vargas, and Betty Julien, all of whom were paid to collect the signatures.
“I couldn’t pick them out of a line up,” Arroyo said, even though Julien has worked for the Councilwoman for more than a decade and Lopez said Arroyo personally handed him his paycheck.
Pabon’s team wasn’t buying Arroyo’s effort to throw her staffers under the campaign bandwagon.
“She should be held responsible for the people working for her campaign,” said Donald Dunn, an attorney working for Pabon.
During the same proceedings, Arroyo said that no one person was in charge of her petition drive, but later admitted that her nephew, Richard Izquierdo Arroyo, was a key part of the process.
Signatures from Maria del Carmen Arroyo’s petitions. Among the names are famous celebrities such as Derek Jeter and Joe Buck.
Signatures from Maria del Carmen Arroyo’s petitions. Among the names are famous celebrities such as Derek Jeter and Joe Buck.
He’d likely be a poor character witness: Izquierdo Arroyo was busted two years ago for skimming $200,000 from a taxpayer-funded Bronx nonprofit run by the Arroyos.
He served 10 months in jail.
It is unclear how many signatures Arroyo has left; the hearing ended with Arroyo’s lawyer offering to strike 500 more signatures — which would be too few to knock Arroyo off the ballot. Pabon’s team wants more time.
In any event, the Councilwoman is adamant that she will be on the ballot for the Sept. 10 primary.
“I expect to be reelected,” a confident Arroyo said after the proceedings.
The District Attorney’s office confirmed that there is an ongoing investigation.
“There was a complaint made,” said Steven Reed, a spokesman for Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson. “We are aware of it and we are looking into it.”
The Gothamist reports today that a bombed train slipped by the MTA and came into service pretty tagged up which is rare that they do. Since the train operator and conductor are supposed check the train before bringing it into service from the yard.
What’s could possibly be better for local residents than to stumble upon a farmer’s stand smack dab in the middle of the HUB? It was definitely a nice surprise for me just two blocks from my home!
According to the farmers, today was their first day and will be there on Wednesdays between 9am and 6pm.
They are located on E 152nd Street between Third and Bergen Avenues on a small unused block. If the city is smart enough, they’d fill that entire block with stands from corner to corner.
If you’ve been following the shady dealings of Councilwoman Maria del Carmen Arroyo and the equally shady Arroyo clan, you already know that thousands of signatures were reported to the BOE as forgeries a couple of weeks ago.
Now the Board of Elections has tossed out over 1,800 of the bogus petition signatures leaving the “…ethically challenged…” as the Daily News likes to refer to her as, del Carmen Arroyo at the mercy of the judge when he rules on charges of fraud brought about the Julio Pabon campaign as well as dozens of local residents who’s signatures were forged.
Read what Denis Slatery of the Daily News has to say:
Board of Elections tosses 1,800 signatures collected by Maria Del Carmen Arroyo
SMITH, BRYAN,, FREELANCE/Daily News:
Maria del Carmen Arroyo will need to recreate this pose later this week when a Bronx judge rules on whether she committed election fraud to get on the ballot.
Candidate had collected 3,800 signatures to get on the ballot. Bronx judge could toss hundreds more, kicking her off.
The road to re-election just got extremely bumpy for a beleaguered Bronx City Councilwoman.
The Board of Elections has nullified more than 1,800 of the 3,863 signatures collected by Maria del Carmen Arroyo and her team in Arroyo’s bid to maintain her South Bronx seat.
And now, with almost half of her petition signatures ruled invalid, the ethically challenged Arroyo will face a Bronx judge who could strike a majority of the remaining scripts.
Arroyo must maintain at least 450 signed petitions to remain on the ballot for the Sept. 10 primary.
There is little chance of that happening if the judge rules that the remaining signatures — which include likely fabrications such as Derek Jeter, supermodel Kate Moss and other celebs — are tossed.
“We are pleasantly surprised by the number of signatures that the Board struck down,” said Julio Pabon, Arroyo’s elated opponent in the race.
Pabon offered one explanation for why Arroyo would have filed thousands of allegedly fake signatures: “I don’t think she expected anyone to challenge.”
But volunteers working for Pabon did just that, poring over the signatures and finding more than 3,400 that appeared to be fakes.
The signatures invalidated by the Board of Elections were limited to signatures belonging to non-registered Democrats or non-residents of the district, which includes Hunts Point, Morrisania and parts of Highbridge.
Pabon’s campaign has a subsequent suit in Bronx Civil Court claiming that Arroyo knowingly violated election laws by submitting the fraudulent petitions. That court will offer a ruling Wednesday.
“If Ms. Arroyo is complicit with the actions of her petitioners, then all of these fraudulent names will be invalidated,” said Donald Dunn, the attorney who filed the suit.
ScoutingNY has featured several places in the Bronx as he (they? She?) journeys throughout the city cataloging various locations for film and television but recently he came across Harding Park and seemed rather fond of this tight knit bungalow community tucked away by the Long Island Sound, East and Bronx Rivers.
Live in Harding Park or been there? We’d love to hear your thoughts about the neighborhood!
Our readers already know that I’ve been keeping a close eye on Bronx politicians and Councilwoman Maria del Carmen Arroyo in particular in order to better inform our readership. This latest scandal is but one of many to taint the Arroyo crime family political dynasty.
Many readers of Welcome2TheBronx have often asked why are these corrupt pols still in office. Some have even blamed Bronxites for voting them in and keeping on doing so after their shady dealings are revealed.
But that’s not actually the full story.
Enter Stanley Schlein, Esquire (often referred to as Stanley Slime), the attorney of choice of incumbents and the Bronx political machine and perhaps the most corrupt of them all.
When politicians in the Bronx are caught in some sort of scandal, or their thrones are being threatened because the people want to vote them out, they run to Papa Schlein for defense. He’s represented the Arroyos, the indicted Espada to name just a few.
Just google Stanley Schlein and all you read are scandals after scandals, corrupt dealings, and protecting the very power structure he has helped to put into place in the Bronx.
Infographic created and compiled by Morning Glory Garden in Mott Haven.
Many refer to him as a judge picker and it has been said that, “He is so revered in the courthouses on 161st Street that when he walks into court, the judges stand up for him—instead of the other way around. He earned this love and respect by being the leading point man for the Bronx Democratic organization, which picks most of the borough’s jurists.”
Now he’s representing Maria del Carmen Arroyo – again – and we’ll see how he’s going to defend the blatant forgeries and fraud in her petitions for the September Democratic Primaries. The problem is that Schlein wrote some of the very laws which govern the Board of Elections so he’ll be like a fox loose in a hen house.
Knowledge is Power; More Links to Stanley Slime’s Schlein’s shady dealings:
After you’re done, head on over to Hunting For The Very Best and read food lover and writer turned lawyerDina Di Maio’s entry on Arthur Avenue which she says,
“…the Little Italy of the Bronx, is the only real Italian neighborhood left in NYC. If you’re looking for an authentic Italian American experience, this is the place to be.”
After I finished reading and watching the video, all I was craving was some good old Italian food.
For a guided tour of Little Italy make sure you get in touch with MCNY Tours which offers the following:
MCNY Tours also offers several other tours so make sure you visit their website and check them out. Tell them Welcome2TheBronx sent ya!
Finally, no visit is complete without sitting down and relaxing while having a few beers at the Bronx Beer Hall! If you haven’t eaten you can also chow down there too!
Photo by: Adi TalwarMychal Johnson, an outspoken critic of the FreshDirect plan to build a warehouse and parking lot in Port Morris, was not reappointed to community board 1.
Check out this excellent piece from the Bronx Bureau by Naomi Cohen on how politicians have been and continue to shape and bend Community Boards to their interests.
Oh and a big thanks for linking my post in their article!
The sway that the borough president and councilmembers have over the boards isn’t new. But the past year has seen several high-profile instances of officials using that power.
Mychal Johnson, an outspoken critic of the FreshDirect plan to build a warehouse and parking lot in Port Morris, was not reappointed to community board 1.
The sway that the borough president and councilmembers have over the boards isn’t new. But the past year has seen several high-profile instances of officials using that power.
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At Community Board meetings, dissent is common. But it might be getting less so. When it comes to appointing board members and influencing the election of board officers in the Bronx, Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. and Councilmen Oliver Koppell and Jimmy Vacca recently have drawn fire for trying to elevate like-minded members.
In the past year, five Community Boards have seen appointments and board elections swayed by elected officials’ loyalties or differences in agenda.
“He saw it as a challenge to his authority and his position, and he didn’t like that challenge,” Johnson says of his FreshDirect activism, which started after his last term renewal. While a few other CB1 members oppose the project, Johnson led the fight, having helped found the resistance group South Bronx Unite. Last Wednesday, Community Board 1 voted 25-4 to endorse the FreshDirect plan.
Though the project is “as-of-right,” meaning it didn’t need CB1 approval, Johnson’s presence on the Community Board did give a higher profile to opponents of the deal, which would use millions in public subsidies to move jobs from Queens to the Bronx and, opponents say, bring more truck traffic to an already diesel-saturated neighborhood.
Serving at the pleasure of the BP
The City Charter dictates that Community Boards serve more of an advisory than a decision-making role in the city’s land-use and budget process. Members are appointed by the borough president; half of them come from nominations by local councilmembers. Board members can only be removed for cause—such as poor attendance—but can be replaced by the borough president for any reason once their term is up.
Last August, Diaz replaced six members of CB9, which oversees Soundview, Castle Hill, Union Port and Parkchester, to be able to secure enough votes to oust District Manager Francisco Gonzalez, with whom the Bronx Times reports he had had a rough relationship.
In 2006, then-BP Adolfo Carrion ousted four members of CB4—which oversees Highbridge, Concourse and Mount Eden—after they obstructed his push to permit a new Yankee Stadium to be built on public parkland.
Diaz’s communications director, John DeSio, has said in a statement, “We make the selections based on how we believe people will represent both our office and their respective communities.” Diaz was unavailable for comment.
The case for cohesion
Koppell defended the role of the beep in community board composition.
“If they appoint well, they’ll have a group of people that are representative of the community and work harmoniously with elected officials,” he says.
In June, Koppell encouraged Diaz to remove Bob Abbott from CB8 (which oversees Fieldston, Kingsbridge, Kingsbridge Heights, Marble Hill, Riverdale, Spuyten Duyvil and Van Cortlandt Village), because in the race for board vice chair, Koppell wanted votes to help Steve Froot over Maria Khury, a supporter of his 2009 election opponent Tony Cassino. The councilman acknowledges the power play but claims it’s justified. “If you’re criticizing me for appointing my friend, who do you want me to appoint? My enemies?” he asks. “That’s just crazy. It’s going to be people I’m comfortable with.”
Diaz listened to Koppell and denied Abbott reappointment. But when it comes to community boards electing officers, elected officials don’t always win. Khury ended up securing the most votes in CB8. And Tony Vitaliano of CB11 (which oversees Allerton, Morris Park, Pelham Gardens, Pelham Parkway and Van Nest) edged out Joe McManus—whom Diaz and Vacca supported—for chairman in December. Vacca was unavailable for comment.
Because the appointment process is ongoing, it’s not yet clear how many members of the Bronx’s 12 community boards were reappointed and how many were denied another term. But some appointments that have been publicized—like that in CB4 of Desiree Joy Frias, daughter of FreshDirect supporter and Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation head Marlene Cintron—may invite suspicion. While DeSio couldn’t confirm how many vacant seats exist, a third of the community boards have 31 or fewer members—19 short of the standard 50.
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer saw flaws in the community board membership process when he came to office in 2006 and began reforms. An independent screening panel of community-based professionals, chosen by Stringer, now reviews the candidates before passing them on to Stringer for approval. Though the final step is the same—i.e, Stringer gets to pick the members—the panel favors merit and disfavors conflicts of interest.
“The Bronx, from my experience, always takes a little bit more time to catch up,” says Michael Brady, who was appointed to replace Johnson on Bronx Board 1. “It seems like it was a neglected borough for a very long time, and there are many systems put in place because it was a neglected borough. In order to continue to grow, we have to change.”
Who controls the boards?
With all community board members unsalaried, Brady says he believes they should be beholden to none except the community. The BP’s power of discretion, he says, can undermine this.
“If my opinions or my comments don’t necessarily agree with those that appointed me,” he says, “I should hope that’s why they appointed me. The whole concept of civil discourse is to have civil discourse.”
Admittedly, Johnson didn’t go out of his way to find common ground with Diaz: When the BP offered him a private meeting to discuss FreshDirect, Johnson refused unless the sit-down was open to the public.
Still, Johnson says, a mix of voices—not a monotone—is what a community needs. And the potential for being booted from the board hushes some of those voices. “It’s like this unspoken knowledge or fact that if you don’t agree with or oppose a project of someone who appointed you, there’s this fear that you may be removed,” he said. “This seems to be a totally undemocratic process.”
Vitaliano confirms that there’s “a fear of retribution.” But he also agrees with Koppell on the importance of cohesiveness.”If somebody has a problem, that problem is everybody’s problem,” Vitaliano says. “We’ve got to speak as one; we’ve got to stick together.”
He says that this philosophy has so far worked well and that he, Diaz and Vacca are back to being friends. “I don’t think they’ll be making phone calls this time,” Vitaliano says, referring to his pending re-election.
Clamdigger Noun
1. A resident of City Island who was born on the island.
Musselsucker Noun
1. A resident of City Island not born on the island.
City Island, New York City’s slice of a New England fishing village in the Bronx just received news that the city will fund the $100 million+ bridge it desperately needs to replace the over 100 year old one currently serving the needs of its about 5,000 residents and its thousands of yearly visitors to its many restaurants and cultural locations.
While most would rejoice in getting a much needed bridge, local residents (known as Clamdiggers and Musselsuckers) are not too happy and the reason is the design.
Proposed new City Island bridge.
Although aesthetically pleasing to the eye, particularly its sleek futuristic design, it is not what you would think appropriate for an old, 327 year old fishing village filled with Victorian homes, cape cods and bungalows on the Long Island Sound and Eastchester Bay.
Why is the city insistent on not listening to the community? The community has largely voiced their displeasure along with the City Island Chamber Civic Association yet the city wants to proceed with it.
Come on clamdiggers and musselsuckers! We wanna know how you feel!
Oh and remember to read the article from the Daily News:
Unless you’re a hermit and live in the middle of the jungle or a desert for that matter, you were undoubtedly bombarded with the media’s frenzy heralding not only the birth of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge’s first child, but also when she went into labor and now, their first appearance with the yet to be named newborn baby boy.
But that’s the only connection you’ll see between the royal family and Bronxites.
This child will never have to worry about a home, nor if he will go to bed hungry – again. He will most assuredly attend the top schools while Bronx kids navigate our broken education system.
He will play in hundreds of acres of land owned by the royal family while Bronx babies can only look forward to playing on polluted streets with trucks invading their neighborhoods causing more traffic, spewing toxins to be released into the air as FredhDirect will do if they get their way.
Kudos to Denis Hamill of the New York Daily News for writing an excellent piece spotlighting the trials and tribulations families face in trying to have a roof over their heads in the Bronx. The stories of a broken system that does not work is enough to make your stomach turn.
Photo by: Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images
Harry, Kate and William (l.-r.) and the newborn Prince of Cambridge live in a different world to struggling Bronx families.
There was no royal baby watch going on outside 151 E. 151st St.in the Bronx on Monday.
As Prince William and wife Kate awaited the birth of their royal rugrat, the truly struggling families of New York trekked to the city’s Prevention Assistance and Temporary Housing center on this grim corner of the hot sticky city, hoping to secure a roof over the uncrowned heads of their kids.
“Wish my baby was born into all that money,” says Kenneth Chestnut, 22, standing with Charlotte Burkett, 20, and their sons Kenny Jr., 5, and, dozing in a stroller, Kennourious, 10 months. “Solid gold pacifiers.”
“Silver spoon in their mouth,” says Burkett.
“Palaces to live in,” says Chestnut.
Kenneth Chesnut, 22, and Charlott Burkett, 20, with kids Kenny, 5, and Kennourious, 10 mos, have been together 6 years, four in shelter system because they cannot prove they once had addresses.
Photo by: Denis Hamill
“Don’t have to work like me,” says Burkett. “Because they’re royal family. Meanwhile, we getting royally screwed.”
They laughed to keep from crying.
“Instead, we’ve been coming here for like three years trying to get an apartment,” says Chestnut. “We don’t want no handout. We want a home. ”
Here are a couple of kids raising a couple of kids in the vortex of the shelter system. Instead of Kenneth Chestnut taking a hike like his father did on his mother, who is also in the shelter system, he’s been with his girlfriend since he got her pregnant when he was 16 and she was 14.
Brandy Palmer, Rafael Cox and their kids in their Bronx apartment.
Photo by: Andrew Savulich/New York Daily News
PATH requires proof of a previous mailing address and rental history, but both had lived with their parents, who ended up being evicted.
“I dropped out of high school to help raise my son,” says Chestnut. “Took a job in the Linden Movie Theater” in Brooklyn.
“I work three days a week at Baja Fresh, a Mexican restaurant in Manhattan, $7.50 an hour,” says Burkett. “Cashier. Making tacos. Cleaning up. I take home a meal for my kids. But when I see people spending lots of money, I just feel bad. Sad, bad. I’m not jealous of their money. Just that they have a place to live, a home.”
This is but one invisible noble family of the city’s struggling poor as the world media fawn over the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who live on public assistance in public housing in Great Britain, where they welcomed another royal layabout son.
“We can never get the month’s rent, security, agent fee saved to get an apartment,” says Chestnut. “If we did get a $700-a-month apartment in the Bronx, we could both work and make the rent.
Palmer, Cox and their kids at the Bronx PATH homeless shelter.
Photo by: Denis Hamill
“Instead, the city makes us come here three times a month and apply for temporary housing,” says Burkett. “They send us to a new place for 10 days. Then you gotta come back. Each time I miss a day’s work.
“In the last shelter, they stole all our clothes,” says Chestnut. “Baby stuff, too. It’s just so hard to keep a family together. If they gave us an apartment, I would turn it into our own royal palace. ”
“That’s all I’m jealous of,” says Burkett. “Not their money, their jewels, crowns, castles. Keep all that. Just want a place to call home.”
Anther couple and their five kids exit PATH, all their belongings packed into a shopping cart and suitcases.
They had a three-bedroom unit for $1,600 a month, but fell behind on the rent, says Brandy Palmer, 30, standing with Rafael Cox, 42, and their children, ages 4 to 12.
Asked what she thought of the royal baby, Palmer smiled.
“I hope it’s healthy,” she says. “But there are babies born every day, each one just as precious. My five are my royal family. But I never saw this happening to them — homeless.”
“I’m a construction worker, but work is so hard to find,” says Rafael. “ We juggled bills. We fell behind. The city promised to help pay the back-rent so we could start over.”
“At the last minute, the city just changed its mind,” says Palmer. “We needed that one helping hand. We want to work. I have an AA in accounting. Rafael works hard when he finds work.”
Now they were a dispossessed family as the world celebrated the royal family’s newest heir.
“We got evicted,” Cox says. “We came here. But PATH insists we have till Wednesday to vacate the apartment. They won’t house us. Told us to call the sheriff to retrieve the apartment keys. If we don’t get the keys back, we’ll be on the street.”
As the world waited with bated breath for a baby to be born to a palace.
