Dec
18
Laura Pintos in her apartment in the Bronx. She travels two and a half hours to get to her night job at a factory in Yonkers.
Bronx Elderly Woman, Her Struggles & Travels .. Mugged Along The Way
To get to her night-shift factory job, Laura Pintos, 67, leaves her Bronx apartment and shuffles five blocks to the Grand Concourse, where she boards a No. 1 bus. She takes it to 205th Street, gingerly disembarks, walks two crosstown blocks and gets on another, the No. 20, which takes her to Yonkers. For the two-and-a-half-hour trip, Ms. Pintos chooses from one of seven canes and walkers of varying height and durability, making her selection according to what is hurting most.
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