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Fire Takes All They Have, Except a Sense of Family

It was about 8:30 on the evening of Oct. 12. Nilda Cedeño and her son Luis Perez were walking home from the grocery store, just three blocks from their apartment in the South Bronx. Ms. Cedeño remembered hearing lots of sirens. “Wow, so many fire ...

From ALEXIS REHRMANN, The New York Times,  6 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Arturo Toscanini

Overcoming the Emptiness Left by a Mother’s Death

Three women sit carefully spaced on a white sofa that is sealed in a protective plastic slipcover. Sharon Rhaday, 37, is in the middle. On one side is her daughter, Robyn Forrester, 14, holding the family dog, a Pomeranian named Phoebe; on the other ...

From ALEXIS REHRMANN, The New York Times,  5 Feb 2008

What Money Can Buy: Help With Achieving a Self-Sufficient Life

Every day, Neediest Cases articles offer glimpses into the lives of New York’s poor. Often, the subjects have recently survived a crisis or are still in one and their futures seem uncertain at best. Revisiting three cases from the 2005-6 campaign shows ...

From ALEXIS REHRMANN, The New York Times,  2 Feb 2008

A Long Illness Compounds Dubious Financial Decisions

“The mortgage company owns it,” her husband added. Their two-family home, in the Bronx’s Little Italy, is sparsely furnished, with a folding table and chairs in the dining room. A picture taken on their wedding day hangs high on the wall. The ...

From ALEXIS REHRMANN, The New York Times,  31 Jan 2008

Trying to Support a Family After a Kidney Transplant

Ranny Smith, 51, became an American citizen in 1999, but he still carries Jamaica with him. It is in his first name meant to be Danny, he said, but misspelled there on his birth certificate and in his speech, accented with the molasses lilt of his ...

From ALEXIS REHRMANN, The New York Times,  24 Jan 2008

Providing Income While Promoting Education, Both College and Elementary

At an after-school program in Chinatown, fourth graders are reading “My Side of the Mountain.” Vocabulary words downpour, snarl, cloudburst, reap are written on the board. Daan Chen, 17, sinks to the floor and opens a dictionary. Children gather ...

From ALEXIS REHRMANN, The New York Times,  23 Jan 2008

Mentally Ill and Homeless, Worker Fights to Regain Her Life

With her understated makeup, pressed pantsuit and soft-spoken manner, it is easy to imagine Allison Brito at her job, behind a jewelry counter at Macy’s. It is harder to imagine Ms. Brito, 43, leaving work each night and returning to a bed at a ...

From ALEXIS REHRMANN, The New York Times,  14 Jan 2008

Getting Help to Enable Herself to Help Others

“The littlest things you do in people’s lives that, you don’t know, it changes their whole life,” Iman Thomas said. This spring, Ms. Thomas, 31, will discover if a grant from The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund, coupled with her own determination, ...

From ALEXIS REHRMANN, The New York Times,  11 Jan 2008

The Neediest Cases: Help With One Month’s Rent Mends a Family’s Safety Net

Lilia and Rolando Solis, both 39, immigrated to New York City from Mexico 11 years ago, searching for a better way to provide for their family. “It’s hard, but we think that we have to do it, so we have a better life, a better future, for the kids,” Mr. ...

From ALEXIS REHRMANN, The New York Times,  10 Jan 2008

The Neediest Cases: A Better Life Here, Yes, but Not Without Worries

Raymond Acevedo and his sister, Katiria, share a bedroom in their family’s apartment near Yankee Stadium, in the Bronx. It is tight quarters for two teenagers with different interests. Katiria’s side is decorated in pink and with Hello Kitty ...

From ALEXIS REHRMANN, The New York Times,  10 Jan 2008

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