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NEW YORK.- Documenting the abandoned, burnt out, and razed structures of entire city blocks in the South Bronx in the aftermath of the 1970s, during which this neighborhood experienced dramatic decline, Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx by Ray Mortenson will be on view at the Museum of the City of New York from November 14, 2008 through March 9, 2009. The 50 black and white cityscapes and interiors on view—five of which are large-scale—were taken between 1982 and 1984, and they vividly illustrate the results of a downslide that began in the Great Depression of the 1930s and accelerated with the construction of the Cross Bronx Expressway in the 1950s and the fiscal crisis of the 1970s. Broken Glass is Mortenson’s first museum exhibition in New York City, and it is the first presentation of the South Bronx photographs. Read more..

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NEW YORK (AP) — A busboy is suing Justin Timberlake, saying the pop star’s Manhattan barbecue joint didn’t pay him a legal wage.

Felipe Ramales, 26, said in a federal lawsuit filed Friday that he worked for Timberlake’s Southern Comfort restaurant for about a year before he left in June.

The suit said Ramales and other staffers didn’t get their proper share of a gratuity charge that the Upper East Side restaurant automatically collected from parties with six or more diners. Ramales, of the Bronx, also said he worked more than 40 hours per week without getting overtime. Read more..

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A Best Buy store. Best Buy CMO Michael Linton has left the company.

Best Buy on Saturday was scheduled to open its first-ever store in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The store, located on E. Fordham Rd., is expected to add 150 jobs in that community.

At a grand opening celebration Saturday, basketball legend-turned-entrepeneur Earvin “Magic” Johnson was scheduled to attend and deliver opening remarks, while Best Buy representatives are set to present $10,000 checks to a pair of charities, The Pointe and The Wildcat Service Corporation.

In addition, the first 50 customers in line were to receive a $20 gift certificate to the store.

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Two robbery suspects, hands cuffed behind them, were taken from a police station house in the Bronx a few days ago. Like many young men, they wore baggy trousers. They wore them low, very low, so low that the beltless jeans of one suspect slid down almost to his knees.

Guilty or innocent, he looked ridiculous. President-elect Barack Obama, we’re willing to bet, would have agreed.

The first order of business for the new president will no doubt be to get America to hitch up its pants and give the economy a kick-start. It will be interesting to see if he can also get America to hitch up its pants, period. This is a matter of no small concern to New York, where changes in fashion mean jobs, reputations and — count on it — money.

Just before Election Day, Mr. Obama appeared on MTV and took a question about laws in some municipalities that ban a popular street look among young men who go around in low-slung pants that expose way more underwear than many of us care to see. Those ordinances, the candidate said, are “a waste of time.”

“Having said that,” he continued, “brothers should pull up their pants. You are walking by your mother, your grandmother, your underwear is showing. What’s wrong with that? Come on.”

“Some people might not want to see your underwear,” Mr. Obama said. “I’m one of them.”

The question now is whether as president he can bring about a change in urban fashion by sheer dint of example. Read more..

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The set of A Bronx Tale tells you just about all you’re going to need to know about the upbringing of Calogero Palminteri. You’ve got the holy trinity of this particular neighborhood’s life: the corner of 187th and Belmont, a front stoop, and the neon-lit exterior of the local wiseguy bar. No Fresh Air Fund, no Broadway even. There was his block and the rest of the world, made guys and working guys, and rarely the two should meet, unless one got in the way of the other.

Take, for example, the day in 1960 when Calogero was 9, a guy got himself shot, the boy didn’t rat, and Sonny the corner boss took him under his wing. Bada bang, bada bing, without him hardly leaving his stoop, the kid’s name got a lot smaller - shortened to “C” by Sonny - and his world got a lot bigger. Read more..

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