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Washington Heights Journal: When Death Visits a Popular Beauty Salon

The flowers and candles lent a soft touch to the sidewalk outside Jailina Salon Unisex on St. Nicholas Avenue. But the closer people got, the more the sight broke their hearts. Joselin Castro, eight months pregnant when she died, was mourned at Jailina ...

From DAVID GONZALEZ, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Poetry Series Spurs Debate on the Use of an Old Slur Against Puerto Ricans

The word sounds retro, but its corrosive power lingers. Once a cruelly common taunt that mocked the way Spanish speakers pronounced “speak,” it set off fights, shattered friendships and trampled feelings. Sandra María Estevez is participating in El ...

From DAVID GONZALEZ, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: El Museo del Barrio,  John Leguizamo,  Fordham University

An Advocate for Prisoners Argues for Prisons, Too

David Gonzalez/The New York Times The Rev. Stephen Chinlund is a longtime advocate for prisoners. And from his vocation to help transform lives, he has concluded: “Prisons are absolutely necessary. Some people need to be held still.” There is a ...

From DAVID GONZALEZ, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David Gonzalez,  New York Times Company

In Resilient Neighborhood, Morale Tumbles After Fire

A tilted plywood wall wraps around the northwest corner of Bainbridge Avenue and East 204th Street, where the air smells of smoke and the sidewalk glistens from broken glass. The wall tries to hide the ghastly sight of 10 storefronts burned to sooty ...

From DAVID GONZALEZ, The New York Times,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Pedro Jr Espada

Bronx Park South Journal: A Desolate Princess of the Bronx? Not Then, Not Now

With her sad face and plastic tiara, Guissette Muniz looked like a 6-year-old princess surveying a kingdom in ruins. Empty lots, cracked sidewalks and dirty streets surrounded her. A car, flattened like a beer can, sat across the street. Not another ...

From DAVID GONZALEZ, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company

Keeping the Flame Burning for a Beloved Queen of Salsa

Celia Cruz’s mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx looks downright homey. Colorful plants flank a modest walkway, and clear side windows let visitors peer inside, where family photos, a rosary and a Cuban flag rest atop the singer’s tomb, along ...

From DAVID GONZALEZ, The New York Times,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Celia Cruz,  Susan Olsen,  Duke Ellington,  Miles Davis,  Knights of Malta

Glee! The Retirees’ Talent Show

Inocencio Gonzalez caressed his guitar and strummed an old bolero. Eyes closed, he sang about living, loving and dying. Within minutes, three other singers sidled up and leaned close. “If my last breath is not for you,” they sang, “then what is it for? ...

From DAVID GONZALEZ, The New York Times,  18 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Celia Cruz

Local Stop | Near Yankee Stadium: Where Baseball Isn’t Everything

Pinstripe fanatics who hustle from their cars to their seats for playoff games this month may not realize it, but there are plenty of things to do near Yankee Stadium that don’t involve beer, booing or going broke. Concourse Village taking its name ...

From DAVID GONZALEZ, The New York Times,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Joyce Kilmer,  Heinrich Heine,  Bobby Darin,  Rita Moreno,  Robert Klein

When Baseball Isn't Everything

Béatrice de Géa for The New York Times Yankee Stadium pokes out from beyond the elevated subway platform at 161st Street. Pinstripe fanatics who hustle from their cars to their seats for playoff games this month may not realize it, but there are plenty ...

From DAVID GONZALEZ, The New York Times,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company

Lens: Sisyphean Days in Cuba

The words came to Ernesto Bazan as he stirred awake one morning in Palermo. “You need become a photographer.” Guided by that revelation, the 17-year-old boy decided his future. Mr. Bazan is a man who embraces what some might consider mystical. In the ...

From DAVID GONZALEZ, International Herald Tribune,  1 Oct 2009

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