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The Empire Page -- Friday Jun 24, 2011 Jeuneafrique.com Le Monde.fr - Actualité à la Une am New York L'actualité - Média canadien The New York Sun Liberté Algérie - média algérien Inner City Press' Bronx Reporter: 1.4 Million People, Redlining, EJ, Cultural Innovation,Invisible Money, Police Brutality, Housing Scandals More annals of Fordham Road -- while still awaiting local powers' spin on the closing of R & S Strauss, a reporter's recent pass-through the White Castle found, far from fast food, no one talking orders for foot traffic. Everything is directed at the drive-through customers. Some suburb... For some years, Inner City Press has noted the lack of a Fed Ex / Kinko's in the Bronx. Now last week, it was explained, thusly: "The primary factor in choosing locations is customer demand," said FedEx Office spokeswoman Jenny Robertson. "We look at the density of small and medium-size businesses. At deadline, we're told there is an explanation for, and even controversy around, the closing of the R & S Strauss auto parts on Fordham Road. An Ecuadorian restaurant has opened on Crescent Avenue in The Bronx, with ceviche, goat and rice and that country's apple soda. Meanwhile, gone from Fordham Road is the R & S Strauss auto parts store. Talk about nitty-gritty. Want a comment?