but at the end of it that was the river, and iealid, ", my gosh," like, "we could have a waterfront park here," and literally ran home, wrote the proposal, and it grew into this amazing, amazing thing that we were able to leverage that tiny, little $10,000 grant, like, tons of times over, and we got a $3 million park that was debuted in 2006. >> hinojosa: what i want to know about is how did you figure... okay, "i'm from the south bronx, but i am going to challenge all of these people. i'm going to take them on," because, you know, again, everybody thinks of the south bronx as the dumping ground. >> right. hinosa: what made you... from where, to just say, "yeah, okay, sure, i've been to college, i did all these wonderful things. i have a great degree, et cetera." but what made you really think, "and i'm going to challenge them and i'm going to win"? >> i didn't know i couldn't, you know? it just seemed like this was right thing to do. it's just like, how could you dump on a community, like, this vulnerable for so long and not think that someone was going to challenge it? and i wasn't the