I will try and be a better person and make better decisions and, I guess, get better at school and make my mom proud. Hopefully, the Bronx can become a cleaner place and we can reduce the pollution.
Chicago Smith
Morris Park
I’m not really giving up anything for the new year, but I guess I’d like people to be better to each other and be more friendly to each other instead of being bad. I hope the Bronx becomes a better place to live in; safer. I know it’s not that bad, but it could be better.
Gabriel Santos
Morris Park
I don’t have a New Year’s resolution. I just want to build upon what I did in 2018 for 2019. I think 2018 had its ups and downs. But you know what? I’m still here, so it can only–the Bronx is getting…kind of violent. I watch a lot of news and I see the different things going on, and in this day and age where there’re cameras everywhere, I can’t believe that people still try and do petty crimes and rob people’s stuff. So, my hope for the Bronx is for people in the Bronx just to just love each other and not try and harm each other.
Michelle Clancy
Bedford Park
My first New Year’s resolution is to stop smoking so much weed. Sorry, I just feel my picture–that I will automatically look high. I might as well be honest. Definitely cut back on the snacks. I’m actually training for a fight so I should stop smoking. I’d also like to bring more peace into the world than I do chaos. I hope in 2019 we have a more peaceful police presence because the police have been out here so heavily, and they’re shaking everybody down for guns, and I don’t know who has all these guns that they’re looking for, but I feel like it’s a disarmament of the minority community.
Vanessa Lopez-Beltron
Norwood
I typically do not make New Year’s resolutions, because primarily I have targets set throughout the entire year, broken up into period fragment–like quarterly, weekly and daily. And I am constantly reviewing my goals and targets and ramp up the work and adjust as needed. This is also broken down further to various avenues of my life, from my financial career to boxing, of which I have coaches for almost everything to guide and push me. I hope that someday the political and financial madness will end, but that’s a massive stretch and pretty much a dream at this point.
Mary Raffa
Brooklyn
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