For Mexican Workers, a Long Walk Home – New York
Tagged: New York, New York City, restaurantPosted on: October 22nd, 2007“AFTER a long night of busing tables at a Manhattan restaurant and a train ride across much of two boroughs, the compact, baby-faced Mexican immigrant climbed the steps of the Kingsbridge Road subway station in the West Bronx and began walking the last few blocks home. It was around 1 a.m.
When he turned onto East 196th Street from the Grand Concourse, he realized that two teenage boys were 30 feet behind him. They spoke in Spanish, his mother tongue, but in an accent that echoed the Caribbean, not his homeland.
Suddenly they began to run toward him. “Stop or we’ll kill you!” one of them yelled in English.”*
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