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Crossing the Bronx was the fourth title chosen, and as soon as it was adopted, the reaction of the cover designer and the copy editor could be characterized as, “Now that’s what it should have been from the beginning!”
It’s obvious that the action takes place in The Bronx, the northernmost part of New York City. And crossing is a double entendre, meaning both spanning the borough (the Cross Bronx Expressway bifurcates The Bronx connecting the George Washington Bridge to the west and the New England Thruway to the east alongside Long Island Sound) and implying a double-cross, as evidenced by the scheme cooked up by city officials and the mobbed-up construction company to route the roadway in such a manner as to make huge profits, some of which are funneled back into campaign contributions…the local community be damned in the process.
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