Bronx “Ghetto” Bus Tour Under Fire From Borough President

The Post’s Candice M. Giove got a first-hand look at the 3-hour tour. For $45 riders were taken to food-pantry lines and a “pickpocket” park.

Tour guide Lynn Battaglia of Pittsburgh pointed out housing projects, recounting the poverty and violence that overtook the South Bronx in the 1970s.

Two dozen poverty-stricken people stood in line at St. Ann’s Episcopal Church, as she spoke, waiting for food. One man was reportedly visibly annoyed about the tourists gawking at the food pantry line.

“I don’t know what that line’s about, but every Wednesday we see it,” Battaglia told the group. “We see them go in with empty carts, and we see them come out with carts full.”