Growing Up In The Bronx: Community Analysis

Growing up in the Bronx and going to school in manhattan allowed me to see my community from a different lens. The neighborhood I would play I tag on its concrete blocks in the spring. Jumping into a fire hydrant cooling rain in the summer, playing jump rope with the current. It seemed like a quiet paradise away from the busy beehive that is manhattan. But to people outside of my bubble the Bronx was anything but a fun home to spend your days. Members of my community were labeled dirty,gritty, poor, deadly and any other name you could think about. For a long time it confused me why people thought of the bronx that way. I hadn't learned the history or baggage that folks that were older than me carried. I want to change how the bronx is viewed.