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The bio previously stated, “She ended up attending public school 40 minutes north in Yorktown, and much of her life was defined by the 40-minute commute between school and her family in the Bronx.”

That sentence in the bio has since been changed, though it still doesn’t explicitly state that she moved out of the Bronx to Yorktown when she was 5 years old.

“She ended up attending public school in Yorktown, 40 minutes north of her birthplace,” it now states. “As a result, much of her early life was spent in transit between her tight-knit extended family in the Bronx & her daily student life."

Ocasio-Cortez was 2 years old when her father, Sergio Ocasio-Roman, bought a modest home in Yorktown for $150,000. The family lived in the Parkchester section of the Bronx at the time and moved to the house in Yorktown a few years later.

And frrom this article:

Ocasio-Cortez’s experience in both neighborhoods is also detailed in the Times story that certain critics have seized upon. As the Times notes, Ocasio-Cortez relocated to Yorktown Heights when she was a kid:

The family lived in Parkchester, a planned community of mid-rise buildings, in the same apartment where Ms. Ocasio-Cortez now lives, until Alexandria was about 5, when they moved an hour north to a modest two-bedroom house on a quiet street in Yorktown Heights, a suburb in Westchester County, in search of better schools.

“My dad had a small family business in the Bronx, and the rest of my whole family stayed there,” Ocasio-Cortez said, per the Daily Mail. “So I grew up between two worlds, shuttling between the Bronx and Yorktown most of my life.”

Ocasio-Cortez moved back to the Bronx after graduating from college and has since worked in community organizing and education.