"Amazing Grace" by:Jonathan Kozo

1) " The Number 6 train from Manhattan to the South Bronx makes nine stops in the 18-minute ride between East 59th Street and Brook Avenue. When you enter the train, you are in the seventh richest congressional district in the nation. When you leave, you are in the poorest"

• This quote is the 1st paragraph of the article, and this paragraph really hits home because I use to live in New York City until the age of 13. When Kozo said that the seventh richest city in the nation is only 18 minutes away from one of  the poorest neighborhood it struck memories because when my mom use to work as a CNA she use to take me to her job, and her means of transportation was by taking the 6 train and this quote couldn’t be any better in telling the truth. We got on a certain stop and off another.  The two neigborhood only a couple miles apart are totally different societies. In one neighborhood I saw African American children in the streets and in the rich neighborhood all the white children were in their in huge houses.  I could really relate to this part of the story.

2) ". . . She tells me that more than 3,000 homeless families have been relocated by the city in this neighborhood during the past few years, and she asks a question . . . ' Why do you want to put so many people with small children in a place with so much sickness?"

• This quote took me by surprise because I never knew that 3,000 families get relocated in New York due to poverty. I also did not know that when these people get relocated they get relocated to an unsanitary place with sickness. I think that Government could do a better job than this.