Sentences with phrase «city neighborhood from»

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Today, the program's headquarters in the city's leafy Providencia neighborhood is packed with locals and foreigners learning from one another.

A couple look at Alfama, one of the city's historic neighborhoods, from the Miradouro de Santa Luzia in Lisbon, Portugal.

Why it's hot: This Midwestern city is preparing for an influx of innovation when it gets an instant tech infusion from Google Fiber, which will provide free, gigabit internet to 180 neighborhoods starting in October.

«Beyond Banksy: Not Another Gift Shop» offers an alternative look at London's Shoreditch neighborhood, and encourages the public to discover their city from a new perspective.

Bootstrapper Nick Gleason, founder of CitySoft, in Watertown, Massachusetts, battles inner - city poverty by recruiting from inner - city neighborhoods.

The temporary tax break attracted fast - growing tech companies to San Francisco's Mid-Market and Tenderloin neighborhoods by offering them an exemption from the city's 1.5 percent payroll tax in exchange for community work.

As election day settled into evening on November 8, most of New York City's tech employees bounced from their offices in the Union Square or Flatiron neighborhoods to bite their nails in the company of friends and potent drinks.

It took broad aim at Whole Foods, criticizing everything from its cozy board and wilting produce to its pricey real estate in well - heeled neighborhoods like Columbus Circle, where Whole Foods has a store in the Time Warner Center — one of the most expensive retail spaces in New York City.

She now resides in the Casco Viejo neighborhood of Panama City, Panama — and from there she travels extensively in her role as Managing Director for Pathfinder, International Living's preferred real estate advertising partner.

«Being able to look out amongst hundreds of Pure Barre fanatics from all different neighborhoods around our city all moving to the same beat!

Topics covered include: - How Booker's parents used a sting operation to desegregate a neighborhood, and why they did it - Why Ezra doesn't eat breakfast - Booker's disagreements with Ta - Nehisi Coates - How a 10 - day fast led to a (temporary) peace with Booker's worst political enemy - How spirituality informs Booker's approach to politics - The lessons Booker took from his early losses in with elections and city council fights - What it's like to be the only vegan in Congress - Why Booker hates penguins - Whether it's cynical or simply realistic to doubt America's political institutions - Which books have influenced Booker mostAnd much, much more.

Eleven years ago, Greg Walsh, an upscale interior designer who also sold home furnishings from his studio in the city's hip North Loop neighborhood, began showcasing men's accessories he'd collected during his travels: cuff links, watches, wallets.

The Charles E. Smith division of global real estate investment trust Vornado attempted to find answers to some of these questions through a pilot project centered on one building in the middle of Crystal City, a planned office and mixed - use neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.

The community - built playground at Parque Agua Santa will not only provide thousands of children with a safe place to play, but also engage the residents with the city of Puebla, AMA Mexico, Parques de Mexico and families from surrounding neighborhoods in a transformative partnership to improve the entire community.

My flat was in a city called Grigny, about 15 miles from the center of Paris, known for being one of the worst neighborhood in the country (violence, drugs...) that is why it is super cheap.

Indeed, I have a treasured memory that gives me hope in this regard: I was once a member of an inner - city Reformed congregation that was also home to a woman from the neighborhood who considered this congregation her parish church, as it were.

One small example of this in our neighborhood is the urban farm one of my friends and mentors started to provide jobs to «returning citizens»: It required the city to help give away land and clear vacant property and some startup capital from a local farming company, but it is based on the church's understanding of the needs of the people and explicitly tied to the concept that faithful believers can help disciple and encourage people who have been incarcerated for harming others, walking them through the transformative process.

Our leaders come from our neighborhoods, cities and states.

The Taliban - linked attack in Lahore comes one year after two suicide bombers from the same Taliban faction targeted Lenten services in the city's largest Christian neighborhood.

The city's West Side is an ethnically diverse neighborhood plagued by falling property values and drugs, often dealt from abandoned houses.

While some urban churches choose to be fortresses within the city, this glassy church refuses to shut out its urban neighborhood, or to be shut out from it.

Well, Marty tells us, that phrase — which is not found in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights but comes from a letter that Thomas Jefferson sent to a group of Connecticut Baptists — will not be of much help to a congregation that needs to challenge a local zoning ordinance, or to ask the city police force for help in keeping the neighborhood noise level down during Sunday morning worship hours.

Realizing that strong inner - city neighborhoods are crucial to its regional economic and social health, Indianapolis shifted the focus of its redevelopment efforts from downtown to seven inner - city neighborhoods, and implemented a program to train community leaders and pay for neighborhood coordinators.

I don't think people can control who from which religions can rent there and what they can do with the space they rent beyond the normal city controls for any rental space in the neighborhood.

Marriage is designed to protect any neighborhood, any city, any nation from an abundance of illegitimate births.

Alinsky was a regular lecturer there, along with other community theorists and practitioners: Richard Hauser, Milton Kotler (usually accompanied by Pastor Leopold Bemhard, then at First Lutheran in Columbus, Ohio), SDS neighborhood organizers, SCLC clergy from many cities, SNCC organizers, Maulana Ron Karenga of black nationalist work in California, Ivan Illich of Puerto Rican New York and Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Through their churches, evangelicals enter into contact with people from other neighborhoods, cities, and even distant reaches of the country.

We're also huge advocates for the neighborhoods in our city and have intentionally created our stores in areas that needed a local gathering place and would benefit from economic investment.

Motel Morris is a neighborhood restaurant and bar from the team behind The Commons Chelsea, located on the southwest corner of seventh avenue and eighteenth street in the Chelsea, New York City.

Bringing unique food and beverage focused restaurants to the neighborhoods of Salt Lake City, with from - scratch menus using high quality, locally sourced, sustainable ingredients.

Open seven days a week for all three meals, Dish on Market is a value - based neighborhood bar offering everything from Truman's Breakfast (the President liked a shot of bourbon with his daily egg) to the # 1 burger in the city (as voted by LEO readers choice awards).

I thought about all of the vegan friendly restaurants I had read about, the history of the city itself, the architecture from neighborhood to neighborhood, the abundance of parks and murals that weave throughout the urban landscape, and of course, my favorite peoples who lived in Philadelphia that we were headed to see.

But from the distance of my home in Eugene, Ore., it seemed inconceivable that a 26 - mile race could be run through the city just six days after the storm, with fires having leveled blocks in Queens, with neighborhoods in Brooklyn under eight feet of water, with the subways and the airports flooded and 40,000 left homeless.

That side springs from his being from the «neighborhoods,» from the row houses of the tough, well - integrated Oakland district of inner - city Pittsburgh.

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.

My reporting for this book took me all over the country, from a pediatric clinic in a low - income San Francisco neighborhood to a chess tournament in central Ohio to a wealthy private school in New York City.

The second annual Fort Point Festival this Sunday from noon - 5 pm is a community street party in one of our favorite city neighborhoods!

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

A 22 - year - old man was ordered held on $ 2 million bail this morning in connection with the 2013 fatal shooting of a man steps away from the victim's home in the city's Back of the Yards neighborhood.

Dozens of neighborhoods throughout the city will see their local school yards transformed from unsightly, asphalt patches with weeds growing through the cracks into grassy, park - like areas under capital improvement plans unveiled by the Chicago Park District.

They will have the opportunity to connect with other special needs parents as well as with more than 80 exhibitors located in the Chicago - area, from the neighborhoods in the city to the Chicago suburbs.

Just imagine a few days from now pushing your own stylish Baby Jogger City Select Lux around the neighborhood.

Fourteen - year - old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood.

Representatives from social service agencies in Chicago Lawn, Logan Square and Woodlawn will travel to New York City in the coming weeks to attend a multi-day conference and a «practitioner's institute» for organizations that are interested in launching Promise Neighborhoods, an initiative of the Obama Administration modeled on the Children's Zone.

They were all recruited from agencies that serve the poorest neighborhoods of the city.

The violence stretched from Rogers Park to as far south as 93rd Street and into the Austin neighborhood on the western edge of the city.

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.

«The support we have received from hundreds of working families, neighborhood businessess, and members of the labor community shows that people who love their city can come together to change it for the better.»

Borrowing a page from Clinton's 1999 «listening tour» — held as she prepared for a Senate candidacy — Buffalo mayoral candidature Mark Schroeder is staging a series of events in city neighborhoods, none downtown, to gauge feedback from voters and bolster his claims that incumbent Mayor Byron Brown cares only about downtown.

This demographic shift, augmented by Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union, has transformed much of the Jewish landscape of the city, according to Michael Tobman, a political consultant who has helped advise campaigns and organizations in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods.