In the 1970s, the South Bronx was beset by arson and other crime. But now, the neighborhood around the Grand Concourse is seeing an influx of white middle-class professionals.

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Grand Concourse Neighborhood in the South Bronx Gentrifies

Via Verde, a subsidized housing development in the South Bronx, rewrites rules and assumptions behind low- and middle-income housing.

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Architecture Review: Via Verde in South Bronx Rewrites Low-Income-Housing Rules

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says she received nearly $1.2 million to write a memoir of her rise from a South Bronx housing project to the nation’s highest court. Sotomayor reported the payment for the as-yet untitled book from Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in an annual report of personal finances, released Friday for the justice and her eight colleagues. Knopf revealed last July that Sotomayor had agreed to write the memoir, but the size of the advance had not been public. Read full article > >

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Justice Sotomayor receives nearly $1.2 million advance for memoir