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Meryl Streep as Sister Aloysius

  ‘Penmanship is dying!” lamented Sister Aloysius when she found a forbidden ballpoint pen in a classroom in the movie “Doubt,” set in a Bronx Catholic grammar school in 1964.

It came out on DVD last week, and to watch it was to conjure thoughts of growing up Catholic in the Bronx on the cusp of Vatican II.

It was a time and place that molded a population, and will never be seen again. Only those of us who went through it, like Marines who made it through Parris Island, can believe how it really was.

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 Curtis Sliwa

Tourists hungry for a peek at the real New York can skip Times Square and Central Park and head for the South Bronx instead.

Radio host Curtis Sliwa is leading out-of-towners on three-hour walking tours of the once crime-ridden neighborhood to give them a firsthand look at what it was like and how it has changed.

“The Bronx has improved dramatically, but you can get a flavor of what it was like,” said Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels. “It’s an opportunity to see the old and the new.”

So far, about 125 people have taken the tour, which was first reported by Crain New York Business.

Sliwa, who has also flirted with running for public advocate, says his so-called “Underbelly Tour” is a must-do attraction for those looking to get beyond the glitz of the world’s most intriguing city.

“I show them, this is where there used to be burned-out buildings, gangs, drug dealers,” Sliwa said. “You see a burned-out building with graffiti and right next to it you see a brand-new place and thriving businesses.” Read more..

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