Sentences with phrase «side neighborhoods who»

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Born in Chicago's Near North Side, he was raised by his grandmother, who moved the family to Indianapolis to escape the neighborhood's growing gang violence.

Like Vera Stern, most of those who arrived in America ended up staying, finding jobs, and, frequently, moving into apartments in New York neighborhoods such as Manhattan's Upper West Side, Washington Heights, or Brooklyn's Borough Park.

The conservancy last month released a needs - assessment report with 835 ideas from hundreds of people who filled out community surveys or attended six forums held in the Far North Side neighborhood.

The couple, married in 2012, lived in Rogers Park for about two years before moving to Austin, Evan West in 2010 and Jamie soon after in early 2011, said Brettly Kawaguchi, who said he was Evan's supervisor at the Heartland Café and Red Line Tap in the Far North Side neighborhood.

Neal Samors, who grew up in the neighborhood and co-wrote «Chicago's Far North Side: An Illustrated History of Rogers Park and West Ridge,» disagrees with Moore's description of Sheridan from an earlier era.

And to the developers who plan to build the first significant — and much needed — retail development in the Far North Side neighborhood, the six - story, Art Deco building owned by Pivot Point is in the way.

Police are searching for the driver of an SUV who struck and killed an 83 - year - old man as he crossed a street near his family's video store in the West Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side.

Many of the 10,000 refugees who have settled in Buffalo over the past decade live on the West Side, where they have renewed deteriorating neighborhoods and helped strengthen the economy.

Bloomberg endorsed Assemblyman Jonathan Bing, who represents his Upper East Side neighborhood.

The Times reported that Silver (who has represented the Lower East Side since the late «70s) and Rapfogel (who was recently charged with stealing money from the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty) opposed the proposed development out of a desire «to preserve the Jewish identity of the neighborhood.»

But the local councilman, Ydanis Rodriguez, opposed it, siding with constituents who feared that its rents were too high for the neighborhood and that it would hasten gentrification.

Bob Fredericks: «(B) efore his fall from grace, the Lower East Side native, who never moved out of the old neighborhood, consistently frustrated governors, Big Apple mayors and reform - minded good - government groups with his power plays and mercurial ways.»

City Councilman Ben Kallos (D - Manhattan), who represents the Upper East Side, said the neighborhood is «disappointed» the mayor continues to shy away from the area, and wishes de Blasio would work out closer to Gracie Mansion.

But before his fall from grace, the Lower East Side native, who never moved out of the old neighborhood, consistently frustrated governors, Big Apple mayors and reform - minded good - government groups with his power plays and mercurial ways.

Many of the city's largest civic groups, many economists and West Side neighborhood groups agreed with Mr. Silver's opposition, though sometimes for different reasons, saying the stadium would hurt development by discouraging office tenants and residents who would not want to work and live next to it.

Local volunteers who maintain the garden and formed the nonprofit Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden plan to bring «dozens of residents from Little Italy, Nolita and the surrounding neighborhoods» to the YMCA on Ninth Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues in Park Slope, where de Blasio still exercises even though he lives in Gracie Mansion on the Upper East Side.

«This isn't the west coast Bloods and Crips, where it goes outside the neighborhoods,» said Common Council President Darius Pridgen, who is familiar with East Side street life as pastor of one of the East Side's largest churches.

«That's how it's always been,» said City Councilwoman Gale Brewer, who represents the Upper West Side and has lived in the neighborhood for more than 40 years.

He looks after his aged, forgetful mom, swaps depressed pleasantries with the barber (Steve Buscemi) who owns the shop next door and forlornly resists the attentions of the pretty neighborhood activist (Melonie Diaz of «Fruitvale Station») who wants to preserve this corner of the Lower East Side where four generations of Simkins have fixed shoes.

Who told you to buy a brownstone on my block, in my neighborhood, on my side of the street?

Some of the districts» top - performing public high schools were among those with the highest number of students who didn't take the exams: Northside College Prep and Lane Technical High School on the North Side and Lindblom Math & Science Academy, a selective - enrollment school located in the West Englewood neighborhood.

«In reference to issues on L.A.'s west side, Zimmer argues, «The parents buying up the houses, who have more resources, have a lot of fear about public schools... and when you give them the opportunity to really engage and create integration and diversity in their neighborhood public schools, they don't want to.»

On the other side is Diane Ravitch, who argues that testing has corrupted the schools and that if only we could throw out the tests and return to the neighborhood schools of yesteryear, everything would be all right.

On one side are the heroic parents and teachers who are working tirelessly to save and improve one of Hartford's local neighborhood schools.

But on the positive side, Dei Rossi and other experts support the additional, no - cost option that publicly - funded charters provide to parents who otherwise would have no choice but to send their children to their traditional district's neighborhood school, regardless of its quality.

He sides with neighbors who claim that Key should not be allowed to run a cat - rescue mission in a neighborhood of single - family homes.

Commissions of new work will include: a single - channel video piece by William Lamson, who will explore a double mirror video project filmed on a boat; artist Carmen Papalia will lead his Blind Field Shuttle walk; Todd Shalom will lead an artist walk through the west side of Buffalo; and The Grass is Always Greener — a collaboration with art collective Fallen Fruit to bring fruit trees back to Buffalo's Fruit Belt neighborhood as part of their Endless Orchard project.

More than two years later, the project continues to evolve under the direction of Goldman, the renowned entrepreneur, urbanist and community developer who has helped to revitalize New York City's SoHo, Upper West Side and Financial District neighborhoods as well as Miami's South Beach and Wynwood District.

To examine the changing face of the neighborhood, we collected opinions from a selection of galleries — from galleries who began on the Lower East Side, to those who have moved in from other areas, or found a «second home» there — on why they opened up shop in the area, how they've seen the neighborhood, business, and their foot traffic change, and what differentiates the LES from other art hubs around New York.

With the Lower East Side fast losing connections to its history as an alternative neighborhood for art and politics, two summer group shows remind us of artists who lived and worked there, and have, through example, passed its spirit on.

It is very homey and welcoming to new residents and has a mix of young families and, on the flip side, a lot of people who have been in the neighborhood 20 + years.

Folk Victorian farmhouses have been built in traditional new development neighborhoods to provide old - fashioned, affordable charm, says Georgia Toney, a certified professional building designer who helped develop the Vinyl Siding Institute's Designing Style guidebook.

«When appraisers appraise a home, there are a few different way that they can do that, but the vast majority of underwriters require that the valuation from the appraiser be based on comparable properties in their neighborhoods,» says the Energy Department's Danielle Sass Byrnett, who supervises the residential side of the Better Buildings program.