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                                   “We couldn’t get less popular,” said Anthony J. Ribustello

RONALD REAGAN did it. So did Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura. And in the Bronx, there can be added to the list of actors turned aspiring politicians (albeit on a smaller scale in terms of the office sought and the acting credits) the name Anthony J. Ribustello.

“He’s in, what’s that program?” said Darkoo Jaccoi, a 75-year-old from Pelham Bay who was playing cards one morning last week at the Northeast Bronx Senior Citizens Center in Throgs Neck, where a flea market was held. Mr. Ribustello was attending the flea market to promote his run for Bronx borough president, a post left vacant last month when Adolfo Carrión Jr. departed for Washington to serve as the president’s director of urban affairs.

“He’s in that program ‘The Sopranos’! ” Ms. Jaccoi said moments later, after having been prompted by another player at the table.

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 The former middleweight champion, who twice got the better of Thomas Hearns and was a match for Roberto Duran, has blown $5 million

Faded glory: Barkley before his mural in the Patterson Projects

Before Joe Calzaghe and Roy Jones Jr share their millions this weekend in Manhattan, here is a timely and painful reminder of how fast they could lose them. It comes from over the Harlem River in the South Bronx, where, in the Patterson Projects, a public housing programme, we find Iran “The Blade” Barkley, who won three world titles and twice beat Thomas Hearns.

It is not the loveliest part of town, the kind of place you would go only with a famous prizefighter for support. Outside his block of flats lie flowers and candles, a shrine to a 20-year-old shot and killed by his best friend in a dispute last Friday. This block is less than 100 yards from the one in which Barkley grew up. Between one and the other, he managed to spill $5 million.

Actually, he thinks it is $5 million but he has no precise figure. He has no exact sense of accountability for where it went, either. He certainly has not a dime more than when he started. And he started with nothing.

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NEW YORK, Nov 03, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Company Continues to Expand Availability of FiOS Services in Existing Communities

Residents and businesses in more neighborhoods in the Bronx and Brooklyn now have the opportunity to join the Verizon FiOS revolution that is sweeping the city.

Verizon on Monday (Nov. 3) began offering consumers and businesses in Schuylerville, Throgs Neck and Edgewater Park in the Bronx, and Sheepshead Bay and Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn a bundled package of FiOS TV, FiOS Internet and wired, reliable voice services for a price as low as $94.99 a month.

In addition, Verizon is spreading Verizon FiOS TV availability to more areas in the previously activated Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bergen Beach, Flatlands, Georgetown, Homecrest, Madison, Marine Park, Midwood and Mill Basin.

Door-to-door marketing and other pre-sales activities have been taking place in all the neighborhoods in preparation for the introduction of FiOS TV.

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