Sentences with phrase «class neighborhoods on»

I'm referring to the middle - class neighborhoods on the outskirts and in the suburbs.

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I recently saw a «for sale» in an upper - middle class neighborhood in Denver which advertised, «no money down, lender on site.»

On Thursday, Andrew M. Cuomo, the New York attorney general, said he was preparing to sue Vantage Properties, a private - equity - backed owner of 9,500 mostly rent - regulated apartments in working - class neighborhoods across New York City.

On an ordinary day, the main plaza in Vieques» Isabel Segunda neighborhood comes alive with town hall meetings or morning yoga classes.

Often it is people who live in middle - class or affluent neighborhoods that are relatively free of violent crime who insist on holding a «root - cause» seminar while people are dying in the streets.

Oh there is plenty of negativity around, atheists don't have a corner on that; — RRB -... the loving, kind, altruistic atheists aren't posting on discussion boards; they're reading to kids, planting trees, teaching classes, cleaning up litter, rescuing dogs and rivers and forests and bad neighborhoods.

One Saturday morning 11 years ago, Michael Lofton was roaming his neighborhood looking for adventure when he dropped in on an elementary school recreation class and spotted something.

This works quite well for some students (our Campus and Community page discusses options for what your family can do in our neighborhood while you're in class); other students, however, find they can focus more on their studies when they are here alone and that their children are happier staying with a caregiver in the familiar environment of their own home.

In Paul Tough's first book, «Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America,» he focused on the Harlem Children's Zone, a 97 - block area where Canada set about overhauling the neighborhood with comprehensive social programs, such as after - school activities and parenting classes, that extended beyond the classroom and reshaped the childhood experience.

Although you stressed the problem in minority and economically stressed areas, you neglected to touch on the fact that a number of middle - class neighborhoods are still struggling to secure equitable park programs — most notably on the far Southwest Side of the city.

Our preadolescent children tend to have friendship activities that focus on their neighborhood, activities, school classes and sports teammates.

The Northland Workforce Training Center, taking shape in the Grider neighborhood on Buffalo's east side, is expected to open in August with classes beginning in September.

Daley was Chicago's third consecutive mayor from the working - class, heavily Irish American Bridgeport neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, where he lived his entire life.

His research focuses on understanding distressed urban neighborhoods, the redevelopment of shrinking cities, as well as issues of social isolation, racial justice and class facing people of color.

CODA is an independent political organization that mobilizes residents, activists, and neighborhood groups — anyonewho wants to join in struggling for political, economic and cultural power for the community and an end to discrimination based on class, race, gender, age, disability, religion, or sexual orientation.

On Monday, August 29th we convened a powerhouse panel to have an honest discussion about race, class and gentrification in this neighborhood.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Northland Workforce Training Center, taking shape in the Grider neighborhood on Buffalo's east side, is expected to open in August with classes beginning in September.

Classes will begin in September, and run every Wednesday for 12 weeks, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Students will learn the fundamentals of writing, reporting, and photojournalism through classroom instruction, and through hands - on reporting in their own neighborhoods.

Most of all, available neighborhood development sites are attracting world - class architecture, with prices on the rise and builders placing bets that deep - pocketed buyers will want to be part of the action — in luxury settings, no less.

Gallo, who helped draft nuisance abatement legislation in his role as city assistant corporation counsel, hammered on themes like building code enforcement and holding social service agencies responsible for their clients» behavior in a bid to appeal to working - class residents of Midtown, where quality - of - life crime and neighborhood eyesores are irksome and perennial issues.

According to a press release his office sent out on Friday: «New York City tenants, housing advocates and clergy and community leaders [will be]... chanting slogans, waving placards and criticizing so - called advocacy groups as being out of touch with the needs of tenants in poor and middle class neighborhoods.»

The new analysis sheds light on how Airbnb listings, particularly in neighborhoods where they are most heavily concentrated, exacerbate New York City's affordability challenges and make it harder for working - and middle - class families to make ends meet... Airbnb listings were heavily concentrated in parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn and had a greater impact on these neighborhoods.

I grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, in a lower - middle - class suburban neighborhood on the outskirts of Columbus.

Like so many other kids in their working - class neighborhood not far from Long Beach's massive port, Jose had severe asthma, and it took doctors years to hit on a regimen that controlled his symptoms.

As evidence of peer influence, she also notes that siblings grow up to be very different adults; that adopted children are more like their biological parents than their adopted parents in terms of such traits as criminality; and that adolescents from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be delinquents than adolescents from middle - class neighborhoods, whereas being from a broken home has no effect on delinquency.

Whether that's a walk around the neighborhood, a bike ride, a yoga or spin class, or simply setting a timer on your phone to remind you to get up from your chair every hour, commit to it.

I enjoy mixing it up between cycling classes that feel like dancing on a bike, power yoga classes, running in my neighborhood, and the occasional barre class.

You don't have to join a gym, take a Pilates class, or run for an hour on the treadmill (though all of those things are good options), simply taking a daily brisk walk around your neighborhood or 15 minutes of weightlifting might be your sweet spot.

I did take a walk on Saturday and tested out some new things I learned in my photography class around the neighborhood.

Since I have some free time on my hands these days and there was desire for a soccer class in the neighborhood, I have spent the last few weeks obtaining a permit from the Prospect Park office, and my class is now ready to go!

I wasn't having much luck finding a class in my neighborhood, so I did some searching and found a great pregnancy yoga series on YouTube.

He was raised on New York City's lower east side in a working - class neighborhood.

«Prey at Night» continues the first film's tradition of casting secluded rural enclaves as key locations, moving the action from the first film's oddly empty middle class neighborhood to a cleared - out trailer park that caters to families on holiday at the local lake.

In Mark Pellington's «Henry Poole Is Here,» Luke Wilson, as Henry, is first seen buying a house for himself in a middle - class neighborhood in L.A. suburbia, where he proceeds to stock up on vodka and Krispy Kreme doughnuts.

Based on the MTV television series, whereby two teenage metal - heads named Beavis and Butthead watch music videos and act like dumb - asses throughout their low - class neighborhood, Beavis and Butthead puts the duo on the road across the United States.

September 14 — «Class Divide (2016)» is a documentary about class division and gentrification in the West Chelsea neighborhood of New York City and its effects on public houClass Divide (2016)» is a documentary about class division and gentrification in the West Chelsea neighborhood of New York City and its effects on public houclass division and gentrification in the West Chelsea neighborhood of New York City and its effects on public housing.

It is every miserablist working - class, undereducated, easily - roused neighborhood - as - allegory you've ever seen on film, from Dead End to Out of the Furnace.

These are the kids whose fathers may be incarcerated, whose mothers may be working long hours at low - wage jobs, who live in troubled neighborhoods with little to occupy them in their free time, and whose parents lack the connections and knowledge needed to put them on a path to the middle class.

Abstract: In this article [1], drawing on my research in Hasköy and Güzeltepe [2] which once used to be organized working class neighborhoods of Istanbul, I will discuss the effects of contemporary capitalism on working class youth and certain forms of responses they devise in face of this.

In this article, drawing on my research in Hasköy and Güzeltepe [3] which once used to be organized working class neighborhoods of Istanbul, I will discuss the effects of contemporary capitalism on working class youth and certain forms of responses they devise in face of this.

The youth in Hasköy, where the leftist movement lost its influence much earlier, towards the mid 1980s, were born not in a working class neighborhood with a collective liberation project on the rise, but rather in a neighborhood defined as the other Istanbul, both ostracized and criminalized as slums.

In short, in the 1990s, in working class neighborhoods with leftist backgrounds, the cruising white Renault cars [used by plainclothes cops], disappearing people, unresolved assassinations, incidents like those at Gazi and 1 Mayıs neighborhoods in 1995 where shots were fired at residents resulting in deaths, led to a renewed blow on the rekindling hope for the future.

On a sunny day in April, the K - 8 school looks more like a country club nestled at the edge of a wilderness area and upper - middle - class residential neighborhood than a public school.

But the reality that many kids must travel as long as two hours away from home in order to attend school (often on inefficient public transit) has also put a strain on the Crescent City's poorest families, who, like middle - class households, want high - quality schools within their own neighborhoods.

In a neighborhood teetering on the edge of middle class, Ms. Alhammadi has converted her living room into a classroom.

Thus, taking travel distance and local neighborhood demographics into account, a public school of choice that over represents white middle - class students based on the results of unconstrained lotteries might, instead, dispense offers of admission based on lotteries in which students from low - income families or families from neighborhoods in which blacks predominate have higher odds of selection.

Most parents want to see their neighborhood public schools strengthened, with small classes and less emphasis on standardized testing.

Case in point, the high school juniors recently explored a series of questions around what drives poverty and how their class could begin to combat poverty in neighborhoods near the school; the students decided to build public street libraries in their fabrication labs and install them on targeted blocks.

The treatment and control classes were matched on CAT Total Reading and Total Language scores, and the research team also attempted to match the groups on ethnic background and socioeconomic status by selecting classes from schools in the same or similar neighborhoods.

Basing teacher evaluations on student test growth, he added, voicing a widespread concern, is «absolutely absurd,» and «gives those teaching in middle class neighborhoods a huge, huge advantage.»