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COLUMN ONE : Providing a Passage to America : In a crumbling Bronx neighborhood, two schools readied immigrant children for the world outside. An alumnus returns to find changes, but the old values.

March 17, 1990 | JAMES FLANIGAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER

My old neighborhood in the Highbridge section of the Bronx is poorer and more threatening now than it was 40 years ago, when I grew up here. As children played at recess recently, police forced open the trunk of a car parked near Sacred Heart School and found a woman bound and gagged but alive.

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COLUMN ONE : Providing a Passage to America : In a crumbling Bronx neighborhood, two schools readied immigrant children for the world outside. An alumnus returns to find changes, but the old values.

March 17, 1990 | JAMES FLANIGAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER

My old neighborhood in the Highbridge section of the Bronx is poorer and more threatening now than it was 40 years ago, when I grew up here. As children played at recess recently, police forced open the trunk of a car parked near Sacred Heart School and found a woman bound and gagged but alive.

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