NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Before she started working at the Sofitel hotel in New York’s bustling Times Square area, the maid who accused IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of trying to rape her spent her daily life within the same few city blocks.
The neighbourhood where she lived and worked, a section of the Bronx lined with tiny grocers, hair salons and dollar stores, once infamously violent, is a hilly place called Concourse just north of Yankee Stadium.
There, the single mother and widow from Guinea used to work an evening shift in a tiny takeout joint, African American Restaurant, located on
