Author: newyork-news
Marilena Athineos is a 16-year-old junior at Xaverian Excessive Faculty in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn Courtesy photograph I used to be strolling residence from faculty in Brooklyn on a Friday in October once I was struck by a Jeep that jumped the sidewalk and pinned me towards a brick wall. It was solely via a mixture of luck, the fast motion of the great Samaritan who utilized a tourniquet to my leg and the miracles of contemporary drugs, that I survived. Nonetheless, this crash sentenced me to a lifetime of medical therapy. As an alternative of worrying about weekend plans with…
I do know West Harlem the best way most individuals by no means need to know a neighborhood. From the bottom up. Actually. I used to be homeless beginning at age ten. I spent years sleeping on park benches, within the streets, and in shelters. I raised my son contained in the household shelter system, studying to outlive in a metropolis that too typically treats its most susceptible individuals as issues to be warehoused somewhat than people to be housed. Harlem was at all times the place I discovered myself, and the place I ultimately discovered my footing. In the…