Sentences with phrase «american neighborhood of the city»

Trump made his remarks at the Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy, a small school located in a predominantly African - American neighborhood of the city.

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Think of the low - rise, high - density character of neighborhoods in Paris, London or Charleston, or any pre-1945 American town or city neighborhood, which are characterized above all by a beautiful, walkable, convenient public realm that more than compensates for their small building parcels.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

John Mariani tells us in his The Dictionary of American Food & Drink that Americans have come to know cheesecakes made with cream cheese as «New York» or «Jewish» Cheesecakes, and ones made with ricotta as «Italian» Cheesecakes, with both types having their roots in immigrant New York City neighborhoods.

As its Second Anniversary approaches on November 14th, 2013, Alobar has established itself as a unique, rustic American neighborhood restaurant in the heart of Long Island City, earning places on Michelin Guide's 2013 and 2014 Bib Gourmand lists.

Its avenues are wider and its neighborhoods cleaner than most American cities of its size.

From what he could see, the parents taking their seats in the auditorium were the ones he had hoped to attract: typical Harlem residents, mostly African American, some Hispanic, almost all poor or working class, all struggling to one degree or another with the challenges of raising and educating children in one of New York City's most impoverished neighborhoods.

Still in the early stages of the process, Norwegian American Hospital, in the city's Humboldt Park neighborhood, is busy sending nurses to outside education classes and encouraging them to become certified lactation counselors.

The biggest possible city site for a new Bills stadium — just to the east of the Buffalo River, with a north end zone aimed at the downtown skyline — has stirred a hornet's nest of potential opposition from two neighborhoods, one predominantly African - American, the other overwhelmingly white.

Additional participants in the Jamaica Now Planning Initiative include: 165th Street Business Improvement District, 180th Street Business Improvement District, Jamaica Center Business Improvement District and Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District, A Better Jamaica, A Better Way Family & Community Center, Addisleigh Park Civic Association, Alliance of South Asian American Laborers, America Works, Antioch Baptist Church, Brinkerhoff Action Associates, Inc., Center for Integration & Advancement for New Americans, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Chhaya Community Development Corporation, Citizens Housing & Planning Council, Community Healthcare Network of New York City, Cultural Collaborative Jamaica, Damian Family Care Center, Edge School of the Art, Exploring the Metropolis, Farmers Boulevard Community Development Corporation, First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Fortune Society, Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & New Northern New Jersey, Greater Allen Development Corporation, Greater Triangular Civic Association, Indo Caribbean Alliance, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica Hospital, Jamaica Muslim Center; Jamaica Performing Arts Center, Jamaica YMCA, King Manor, LaGuardia Community College Adult & Continuing Education, Mutual Housing Association of New York, Neighborhood Housing Services Jamaica, New York Alliance for Careers in Healthcare, Queens College, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens Economic Development Corporation, Queens Hospital, Queens Legal Services, Queens Library; Queens Workforce1 Center, SelfHelp, Sikh Cultural Society, Sunnyside Community Services, Inc., The Jamaica Young Professionals, The Jamaica Youth Leaders, The Tate Group, Upwardly Global, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and Y - Roads.

In the North, African - American populations are largely confined to large urban areas and their less affluent first ring suburbs, and segregated neighborhoods that are a legacy of pre-Civil Rights era patterns of housing discrimination remain the norm in older parts of non-Southern cities, (although newer suburbs tend to be considerably more integrated than older neighborhoods outside the South).

Ben Carson, who took Trump on a tour of blighted neighborhoods in Detroit during the presidential campaign, including his boyhood home, has been chosen by the president - elect to oversee one of the government's main efforts to lift American cities as HUD secretary.

The City University of New York has appointed Vincent Boudreau, 26 - year veteran of the college, as the next president of its flagship, the City College of New York, after addressing the concerns of prominent African - American leaders in Harlem over his relationship with the neighborhood.

A White Plains neighborhood association is suing the city to stop a planned French - American School of New York campus at the old Ridgeway Country Club, calling the proposal «an absurdity.»

«Eighth hundred thousand stops at the height of the stops, concentrated almost exclusively in lower - income neighborhoods of color, targeting African - American, Caribbean - American and Latino men is an extreme focus on one part of our city.»

Before the West Indian American Day Parade on Monday, City Councilman Jumaane D. Williams, a Democrat who represents several Brooklyn neighborhoods, said that he had come out «because I have a right to celebrate my culture,» but that he had almost decided to stay home because of the violence.

In Dominican and African American families from poor areas of New York City, living in a neighborhood with dense traffic and industrial facilities increased a child's risk of developing asthma, according to Miller and other Columbia University researchers.

For one, the current fiscal crisis presents the U.S. with an unprecedented opportunity to wean itself off fossil fuels — whether implicated in coal mining on Native American lands, congested freeways running through inner cities, or refineries sited along the fence lines of poor neighborhoods.

By combining genetic data, ancestry information, and electronic health records, scientists are able to identify neighborhood - level patterns of migration in the New York City area, according to research presented at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2015 Annual Meeting in Baltimore.

BETHESDA, MD — By combining genetic data, ancestry information, and electronic health records, scientists are able to identify neighborhood - level patterns of migration in the New York City area, according to research presented at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2015 Annual Meeting in Baltimore.

Providence's African - American population is at an all - time high at 16 % of city residents, but its mostly concentrated in pockets in Mount Hope as well as the Upper and Lower South neighborhoods.

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Walk through the youth - oriented neighborhoods of most any American city and you will find people who look to have stepped from one of Anderson's films.

The miniseries «centers on Nick Wasicsko, the young mayor of a midsize American city who is faced with a federal court order that says he must build a small number of low - income housing units in the white neighborhoods of his town.

Projects include volunteer work in the American South, Latin America, poverty zones of American cities, neighborhood schools, and environmentally vulnerable areas.

When focused on cities with large numbers of charter schools, these comparisons reliably show that African American students are more racially isolated in charter schools than in the districts as a whole — as are African American students in traditional public schools in the same neighborhoods.

[18] These differences are particularly strong for demographic characteristics: elementary school neighborhoods that draw the highest proportion of in - boundary students are likely to have proportionally smaller African American populations (14 percent on average, compared to 69 percent for the rest of the city) that are not decreasing as fast as they are in the rest of the city; the later dynamic could be related to the first because these neighborhoods tend to be historically white, and have very small African American populations to begin with.

In a few schools in the center of the city, African American students are overrepresented compared to the school neighborhood population.

What makes Sampson's finding particularly striking is that his research compared the consequences of being raised in Chicago's best - off and worst - off African - American neighborhoods; no comparison was made with white neighborhoods, since no white neighborhood was remotely comparable to the worst - off parts of the city's South Side.

Imagine an American city where parents have a choice of where to send their children to school, rather than being stuck with whatever's in the neighborhood.

Some New York City neighborhoods are currently undergoing dramatic demographic shifts as white middle and upper - class families move back into the city, essentially a reversal of the white flight that occurred in the early 1950s in an attempt to escape the growing populations of African Americans in the cities (Burns Stillman 20City neighborhoods are currently undergoing dramatic demographic shifts as white middle and upper - class families move back into the city, essentially a reversal of the white flight that occurred in the early 1950s in an attempt to escape the growing populations of African Americans in the cities (Burns Stillman 20city, essentially a reversal of the white flight that occurred in the early 1950s in an attempt to escape the growing populations of African Americans in the cities (Burns Stillman 2012).

From idilic lawns in cute American neighborhoods to city streets, abandoned warehouses, and the likes, there should be plenty of interesting sights for Garden Warfare players.

Our recent pop - up shows have investigated a broad range of topics: the relationship between hair, identity, and cultural memory («(De) Tangled»); the importance of food, particularly in the American South («FOODWAYS»); and the significance of the city's neighborhood movie theaters («Moviehouse NOLA»).

Under the leadership of director Thelma Golden (formerly of the Whitney), this neighborhood favorite has evolved into the city's most exciting showcase for contemporary African - American artists.

'' Join us for the unveiling of the landmark artwork, «Symphony in DC Major,» commissioned by City Market at O and created by renowned sculptor and third - generation Washingtonian, Zachary Oxman, The massive three - part sculpture, occupying an entire city block, pays tribute to Shaw's storied history, portraying prolific composer, jazz musician, and DC native Edward «Duke» Ellington; neighborhood namesake and abolitionist Union Army Colonel Robert Gould Shaw; and renowned American Expressionist painter and Shaw Junior High School art teacher, Alma ThoCity Market at O and created by renowned sculptor and third - generation Washingtonian, Zachary Oxman, The massive three - part sculpture, occupying an entire city block, pays tribute to Shaw's storied history, portraying prolific composer, jazz musician, and DC native Edward «Duke» Ellington; neighborhood namesake and abolitionist Union Army Colonel Robert Gould Shaw; and renowned American Expressionist painter and Shaw Junior High School art teacher, Alma Thocity block, pays tribute to Shaw's storied history, portraying prolific composer, jazz musician, and DC native Edward «Duke» Ellington; neighborhood namesake and abolitionist Union Army Colonel Robert Gould Shaw; and renowned American Expressionist painter and Shaw Junior High School art teacher, Alma Thomas.

Six temporary public artworks across Philadelphia, created by a multidisciplinary group of Asian American artists, reflect on the city's diverse narratives and changing neighborhoods.

The grant supports the museum's multi-year initiative to investigate its historic role in neighborhood change and situate both the historical and contemporary West Side of Chicago in a national dialogue on race, gentrification, and the American city.

The American city of the 1960s and 1970s experienced seismic physical changes and social transformations, from urban decay and political protests to massive highways that threatened vibrant neighborhoods.

«This used to be what we called a «walk - through only neighborhood,»» recalled artist Dale Brockman Davis, referring to the city's exclusionary zoning laws that prevented African, Asian, or Latin American families from moving into many of the more desirable middle - class neighborhoods.

Project Row Houses is a community - based arts and culture organization in Houston's northern Third Ward, one of the city's oldest African - American neighborhoods.

«Testimonio is a collaborative installation by and about Latin Americans living in the New York City neighborhoods of East Harlem, Williamsburg and Washington Heights.

A Los Angeles based artist who grew up in the city's South Central neighborhood, Villalobos combines references of high and low culture to interrogate issues of American social structures, power relations, capitalism, and identity.

Motley (1891 - 1981) was born in New Orleans and lived in Chicago, where he painted the cultural life of the city's African American neighborhood known as Bronzeville, portraying it with an eye for calibrations of class and race, and with a sense of his own conflicted position within its context.

The title of the show harks back to a previous piece — «Scorched Earth» is a 2006 map - like painting inspired by the war in Iraq and the 1921 Tulsa riots, when white mobs torched the city's prosperous African - American neighborhood.

Motley (1891 - 1981) was born in New Orleans and lived in Chicago, where he painted the cultural life of the city's African - American neighborhood known as Bronzeville, portraying it with an eye for calibrations of class and race, and with a sense of his own conflicted position within its context.

Xanda McCagg is an American abstract artist who lives and works in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City.

Hank Dittmar, the American - born chief executive of the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment, has an op - ed in today's Guardian on a scheme to accommodate England's 3 million planned housing units in walkable, mixed - use, low - carbon neighborhoods where residents benefit from connectedness to city and community life.

The MIT research team at Harvard University have developed such a system for identifying the physical improvement or even deterioration of normal neighborhoods in five random American cities.

However, youths growing up in impoverished, inner - city neighborhoods face obstacles to conventional development.1, 2 Many African - American adolescents are caught up in the subculture of «the streets» and, in the transition to adulthood, risk becoming school dropouts, premature parents, marginally employed adults, welfare recipients, and struggling family members.

The interactive influence of neighborhood violence and coparent conflict on child psychosocial adjustment was examined in a sample of 117 low - income, inner - city African American families.