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sat there waiting for the cops. “They're on their way,” the D.A. kept warning me. But at two o'clock, he simply said, “Okay, you can go home now.” Bronx District Attorney (later Judge) Burton Roberts took a different approach. In September 1969, he told me that his staff had found an abortionist's fin

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Preface xi think) and had skipped a few grades on the way. Suddenly he found himself at New York University, which in those days was located in the Bronx. This is what he remembered most about college in 1923: Apart from the poverty stories, the “how hard he had to work to support himself” stories, th

the kind other cities ought to envy, paid to finding the most gifted low-income students and putting them on a similar path. In 1978, Gary Simons, a Bronx teacher, founded Prep for Prep with the goal of identifying talented students of color in the city and readying them for attendance at private school