Sentences with phrase «city by neighborhoods»

When we analyzed the city by neighborhoods, average rates for auto insurance in each area varied between positive and negative 3 %.

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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.
Johnson added that Airbnb is also helping grow cities, by spreading urban tourists to new neighborhoods.
Attempts by Jews to move their people out of the urban centers and into colonies on the land have not been successful save in the neighborhood of big cities or in special circumstances.
The national credit system planned for 2020 will be an «ecosystem» made up of schemes of various sizes and reaches, run by cities, government ministries, online payment providers, down to neighborhoods, libraries, and businesses, say Chinese researchers who are designing the national scheme.
Not willing to call Twitter's bluff, the city offered a deal to the company, which now works out of space in the gritty but fashionable South of Market district where many Internet start - ups begin: move to a building in the even more gritty and decidedly less fashionable mid-Market neighborhood — on a section of Market Street that is marred by drug dealing, homeless encampments and shuttered storefronts — and get a payroll tax exemption.
Though the same inner - city neighborhoods remain the hardest hit, only one teen under the age of 18 in all of Miami and unincorporated Miami - Dade — the county's two largest policing districts — was killed by gunfire in the first six months of 2017.
One of our small goals at the beginning stages of Project Orange Tree was to host food drives because neighborhoods most affected by the city's gun violence were also food deserts.
But gentrification in many of the city's neighborhoods has become a sore spot as single - family bungalows are replaced by high - density townhouses for younger, wealthier residents.
In an effort to buoy small privately owned businesses in San Francisco and preserve the unique retail personality of the city, the Small Business Commission started a publicity campaign in 2004 to keep a larger share of retail dollars in the local economy, [6] and the Board of Supervisors has used the planning code to limit the neighborhoods where formula retail establishments can set up shop, [6] an effort affirmed by San Francisco voters.
We became prisoners of our neighborhood due demonstrations, we became prisoners at our cities due the Tensions created by the extreme oppositions «socialists & islamists» what a combination they make that warns of a war between them soonest they finish the task of over throwing the ruling party...!
Professor DiIulio again: «It is reasonable to suppose that by doubling or tripling the number of officers on regular duty in and around drug - infested, crime - torn neighborhoods, and by deploying them in accordance with the precepts of community policing, the streets and sidewalks of even the most blighted inner city could be made safe enough for children to play and adults to stroll.»
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.
Buffalo was experimenting on a small scale with «tipper totes» — large, rat - proof garbage containers designed for easy loading by trucks — but only in one of the city's most affluent neighborhoods and with no plan for wider use.
The formal characteristics of traditional towns and urban neighborhoods are easily learned by attending carefully to the most beloved cities and neighborhoods in the world.
In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).
The city's West Side is an ethnically diverse neighborhood plagued by falling property values and drugs, often dealt from abandoned houses.
Not in the form of some «how to» guide or some «five step» program, but, first and foremost, by way of metaphor: «If the state of contemporary Catholic literary culture can best be conveyed by the image of a crumbling, old, immigrant neighborhood, then let me suggest that it is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogeneous, characterless suburbs of the imagination, and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts which have such grace and personality, such strength and tradition.»
Visualize a city with a network of growth groups in each neighborhood available to people of all ages and sponsored by schools, churches, and community agencies as well as corporations unions, professional associations, and fraternal groups.
Some have suggested that we should skip the task of rebuilding social capital in inner - city neighborhoods by moving the poor to neighborhoods and suburbs where social capital already exists.
As for Hezekiab, the Jew, who did not submit to my yoke, 46 of his strong, walled cities, as well as the small cities in their neighborhood, which were without number, — by escalade and by bringing up siege engines, by attacking and storming on foot, by mines, tunnels and breaches, I besieged and took.
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.
In this sense, for instances, the decision of the Masters Barbers» Association to open neighborhood shops until church time on Sundays is just as surely political policy as an ordinance passed by the city council.
We have our identity in a world where by necessity we live in the city — in neighborhoods, towns, cities, countries, continents, and, ultimately, in the entire «global village.»
I read about za'atar a couple of years ago, and as I had recently moved to a big - city neighborhood with a large middle - eastern population, I went to one of our local grocery stores and asked for it by name.
It's our goal to honor the history of the neighborhood by adding a lasting landmark restaurant to Kansas City's landscape.
(NEW YORK)-- The Alliance for a Healthier Generation and America's beverage companies announced today that New York City will now be part of a community - based initiative to help reduce beverage calories consumed by 20 percent per person by 2025 in neighborhoods where there has been less interest in or access to lower - calorie and smaller - portion beverages.
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).
Angel City is committed to the continued growth and revitalization of its neighborhoods by being an interactive and supportive partner to the arts and business communities.
The quaint neighborhood became hawked by media members, all aching to snatch a scoop of news or cast a different outlook on the pain that's beleaguering this city.
we had our city approve us putting a coop shared among several households on our common land owned by our condo association for our cohousing neighborhood.
Characterized by a mix of urban and suburban neighborhoods, Brookline is bordered by the City of Boston on three sides.
Two teens were wounded Wednesday night in a drive - by shooting on the Far North Side in the city's Rogers Park neighborhood, officials said.
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.
Gardeners in Naperville are angry, but residents of one neighborhood are pleased by a Park District decision to hold off providing space for more than 150 new community garden plots on the city's south side.
However, it's also ideal for recreation, whether it be by exploring a new city, or just zipping around the neighborhood.
Once the hub of the city's Polish immigrant community, the triangle sits roughly along the border of the Wicker Park, East Village and Noble Square neighborhoods, in a Hispanic area that's quickly being diluted by a growing population of yuppies.
The forum, which included a keynote address by author and former New York Times magazine editor Paul Tough (pictured left), explored the The Harlem Children's Zone approach to inner city education, as well as addressed the recent plans by the Obama administration to offer new funding to replicate twenty «Promise Neighborhoods» throughout the country.
I check in my monthly commute 30 $ ticket, the bus stop on the neighborhood tram station by 7:25, where there is a tram every 10 min, with enough time to pick the 7:30 commute train that also works with the same monthly ticket, and that stops all along the city's business hubs.
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.
The report found that Airbnb has played a significant role in rent spikes within tourists and gentrifying neighborhoods in Manhattan and Brooklyn (h / t The New York Times) and in 2016, New York City renters paid an additional $ 616 million due to the «price pressures created by Airbnb.»
«It was not all about the big projects only, that we would not overlook neighborhoods like Hamlin Park and the East Side and the West Side and the South Buffalo areas, that we would make sure that recovery, Buffalo's transformation, would also be seen on the street corners and the city blocks and that people's lives could be transformed by having simply a better quality of life,» Hochul said.
Models of city neighborhoods created by Buffalo public school students are currently on display at the CEPA Gallery.
State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli (second from r.) is joined by Jackson Heights - area legislators — state Assemblyman Michael DenDekker, state Sen. Jose Peralta and City Councilman Daniel Dromm — as he presents his overview of the neighborhood and surrounding area's economy last week.
Consider what happened in a former armory in this city's Midtown neighborhood on Wednesday morning, the latest in a series of rallies that the Democratic governor is headlining as part of an RV tour sponsored by the Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice.
Now, her plan for the city creates decent - paying jobs by supporting small business and tech companies in neighborhoods that are often ignored; expands pre-K and child care; and builds 80,000 units of good middle class housing.
A Manhattan townhouse co-owned by the estranged founders of Two Boots, a New York City chain of quirky pizzerias, is being shopped in bankruptcy to pay off more than $ 5 million in debt as the restaurant grows beyond its roots in the gentrifying neighborhood.
«We deserve a city government that actually believes in our neighborhoods,» said de Blasio, who vowed to build a government «of and for and by our neighborhoods
Vallone, with his undeniable history of community service and commitment to neighborhood safety issues best exemplifies these qualities which were recently recognized by endorsements from the City's top law enforcement unions including: The Patrolmen Benevolent Association, The Sergeants, The Corrections, The Captains, The Lieutenants, The Detectives, and The Fire Marshals Benevolent Associations — just to name a few.
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