Raised in the Bronx and coming out strong
For every illustrious neighborhood on the planet, there will always be a dark corner that isn’t too far away. In this type of corner, the environment is not as peachy as one’s imagination would hope for. One such place is the Bronx, in New York. Image source: wikipedia.org The Bronx actually started off as a settlement where people from different ethnicities came together. Without any semblance of order and few people who cared, it evolved into one of the unkindest social environments in the country. From the early 1900s to the latter part of the ‘70s, living in the Bronx was characterized by lots of violence. With the slum population that crept into the urban landscape, many gang wars erupted. Many people got hurt or killed. Even children never lived beyond their youth and died too soon. The Bronx has a certain effect on any given person who has grown up in the area. Either the individual survives by giving in to the pressure of evils and end up propagati