Sarah Kerr
Food pantry guests outside of Saint Nicholas of Tolentine Church in University Heights.
A system of pantries and soup kitchens sustains thousands of people, many of them working, in the borough. Lines stretch down blocks. People queue up three hours early.
Just 750 people in the Bronx call themselves Green Party members. But back in 1999, that number was 14. “It’s definitely growing,” said Aesha Valencia, 27, who lives in the Norwood section of the Bronx and is Green Party-registered. “There’s a lot of people out there who want to put the planet first.” Valencia said she’s tired of two-party loyalists telling her that she’s throwing away her vote or helping to get the Republican nominee for president, Donald J. Trump, elected.
Other Bronx voters said they were moved primarily by their repulsion at the Republican nominee.
A team of reporters spent a day on the buses of the Bronx to see to see an underappreciated part of the city’s strained transit system in action.
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