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About 300 angry South Bronx residents stood in the rain yesterday outside American Express headquarters in Manhattan to request a meeting with the firm's top executive, who also heads a group seeking to develop a disputed site in their neighborhood.
The protest was organized by South Bronx Churches, a coalition of more than 40 congregations that has united to build one-family, low-income houses on city-owned land in the Bronx.
Its proposal was turned down by the city in April in favor of a proposal from the New York City Partnership, of which American Express chief James D. Robinson III is chairman. The Partnership's plan calls for middle-income housing, which the church organization says will be unaffordable for people in its community.
Organizers of South Bronx Churches said that since April, they had requested to...