“The Bronx? No Thonx!”
“I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.”
“Spring came slowly to the Bronx with a lot of rain & soft water-color tree blossoms.”
“Everyone at school seems to go by a nickname. Kat, Frosty, Bronx, Boo Bear, Jelly Bean, Freckles.”
“…but because they felt the neighborhood was safer than the one around Columbia, the medical campus of which was so far north that it was practically an annex of the Bronx”
“As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.”