Sentences with phrase «class neighborhoods where»

The Jerome Avenue Workers Project documents and celebrates the workers and trades people of Jerome Avenue, one of New York City's few remaining working class neighborhoods where many still make...
Having done so, I weighed the odds of an infected mosquito flying it's maximum three hundred yard range in order to feast on my house - dogs when a.) there are no loose dogs in my country club neighborhood, and b.) my dogs are sold to people in upper class neighborhoods where there is no medically - deprived dog population.
Pete's Fresh Market stores have succeeded in working - class neighborhoods where other grocery companies have not ventured.
When she dresses the same way to go door to door in a working - class neighborhood where industrial chemicals have caused illness, we have to wonder whether, in real life, she was hassled or mistrusted.
The other thing is I grew up in a middle - class neighborhood where people were really serious about working, and the really serious guys stopped sports when they were 14 or 15.

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In Panama City's central Parque Lefevre neighborhood, where many middle - class Panamanian professionals make their homes, a two - bedroom condo — with a balcony, a newly remodeled kitchen with granite countertops, and all appliances and window treatments included — is selling for just $ 122,000.
In five «Dirty Harry» films, he chased, beat and shot up seemingly dozens if not hundreds of the worst criminal perps in San Francisco, but in Gran Torino, Eastwood is a 78 - year - old Korean War vet named Walt who has watched his working - class Detroit neighborhood change to the point where he's virtually a lone Caucasian surrounded by Asians.
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.
In New York City and especially in Brooklyn, each neighborhood has a parenting listserv where parents right in your area post questions, sell baby stuff, list baby classes and set up play dates.
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.
Organizers explained that Harlem had been chosen for the protest as it represents a neighborhood in flux, where soaring housing and commercial rents threaten to undermine the community's historic composition of working - class and middle - class life in New York.
«We believe the Williamsburg neighborhood offers Amazon the ultimate value proposition; it's where brands from around the globe come to innovate and it's where New York's creative class lives and plays,» he wrote in a statement.
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.
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.
The Silverlake neighborhood in Los Angeles (where the first studio is located) was in need of this and it really spoke to the creative class.
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.
Lurching into a Christian charity shop managed by a devout middle - class woman, Hannah (Olivia Colman), he initially curses her for slumming in his impoverished neighborhood in the Northern city where they live.
Tika Sumpter does a fine job as Michelle, capturing the character's wary calm as she navigates multiple worlds at once, from the working - class Chicago neighborhood where she still lives with her parents to the high - powered law office where she feels she has to work extra hard to be seen as «Michelle» and not «the black woman.»
Schools in the Los Angeles School District have moved a vast majority of their students out of their special education centers within the last three years and into neighborhood schools where they are fully integrated into elective classes like physical education, gardening and cooking.
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 this period, in addition to Güzeltepe, working class neighborhoods such as Gülsuyu, Gazi, Armutlu, 1 Mayıs Mahallesi, Okmeydanı largely populated by an urban Alevi and leftist population also transformed into neighborhoods where there was constant police surveillance.
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.
Issued in the spring of 1972, the panel's final report predicted that, unless steps were taken, alternatives to public schools would all but disappear; the greatest impact, the report noted, would be felt in «large urban centers, with especially grievous consequences for poor and lower middle - class families in racially changing neighborhoods where the nearby nonpublic school is an indispensable stabilizing factor.»
They wring their hands about having some of the most segregated public schools in the country — both by race and income — then keep quiet about neighborhood unzoned schools, where middle - class parents send their children in order to avoid failing public schools.
It said Caputo - Pearl and his new team of officers are «hitting the ground running» on policy initiatives, which include «organizing members school - by - school, neighborhood - by - neighborhood, and area - by - area to a place where we can strike if we feel it is necessary» to achieve other gains, such as smaller classes, pay increases, additional school staffing and elimination of «gotcha» evaluations and «teacher jail.»
Yet another study seems to indicate that white and Asian middle - class families benefit more than minority and lower - class families from open enrollment programs where students can choose to go to public schools outside of their neighborhoods.
Alexandra was born in the working - class neighborhood of Washington Heights, where her Puerto Rican Catholic parents instilled in her the value of education.
«The location where we are right now (is) a neighborhood that is middle - income, middle - class and predominantly white,» Marcio Sierra said.
This might take place through anti - racist / anti-bias training, guided conversations where teachers explore their own cultural identity, study of the history of racial politics in their city or neighborhood, or critical investigation of textbooks and other standard class materials.
More specifically, Perez finds that elementary schools in middle and upper middle class neighborhoods such as the Upper East Side of Manhattan had more access to the books than areas such as Spanish Harlem where the books were distributed late into the application process and sometimes Spanish - language versions were never distributed (Perez 398).
Owning homes in upper - middle class black neighborhoods puts families in a unique situation where they can begin to accumulate wealth, but where the racial composition of the neighborhood puts them at a disadvantage compared to black families in majority white neighborhoods.
Harvey drops readers in the gritty neighborhoods of working - class Boston, where two friends confront their past in the midst of a series of brutal murders.
Masterful photo collages take Trixie and her daddy through their Brooklyn neighborhood to the Pre-K class where Trixie discovers that her beloved Knuffle Bunny is not «so one - of - a-kind anymore.»
Prior to being able to attend class, they advised that puppy owners not walk their pups in public parks or around the neighborhood where stray / unvaccinated dogs travel until after the 4th vaccine, but to meet the need for socialization by inviting lots of kind, gentle people of all ages to their home and carry the puppy everywhere: the video store to rent videos, the fringes of a summer soft ball game, the grocery store to sit outside with the puppy on your lap and watch people and carts and kids go by.
I lived in Fawn's neighborhood where she had several of the local dogs in her training classes and never heard anything bad about her from anyone.
The artist's latest series, Revisiting the Area, currently on view at Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York, is an intimate look at the neighborhood where he grew up, which he refers to as occupying a uniquely - American «middle space,» situated in the middle - ground between poverty and middle class.
Regarding the latter, Mourão's incorporation of quotidian items is more than an aesthetic decision; these elements offer social commentary and satirize living conditions in some of Brazil's urban centers, where upper - and middle - class families reside in gated neighborhoods, fenced off from the larger community.
So much of a Beat that she found 1930s Greenwich Village too bougie, Neel made her home in the far uptown Manhattan neighborhoods where at the time middle - class, educated whites rarely visited, let alone lived.
But the real talking point this year has come from the inclusion of Assemble, a London - based collective nominated for a housing rehabilitation project in a working - class neighborhood of Liverpool, where the group, in collaboration with locals, has reclaimed a row of condemned Victorian terrace houses.
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.
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.
Field worker observations highlight the importance of kinship ties: «Johnnie's family and history are not contained in a single geographical area but rather in a kinship centered in two neighborhoods differentiated by social class and culture... Johnnie's mother, a beautician, lives in an inner - city St. Louis neighborhood... Johnnie's uncle, who works for the FBI, lives in the suburban middle - class area that surrounds Huntington High School [where Johnnie attends].»
Class A properties typically range in price between $ 100,000 and $ 175,000 and are located in suburbs where the neighborhoods are predominantly owner occupants and are better school districts.
Class B properties typically range in price between $ 50,000 and $ 100,000 and are located in suburbs where the neighborhoods are a mixture of tenants and owner occupants.
«It will be tough to achieve any rent growth for class - A properties in the neighborhoods where completions will be heaviest,» says Willet.
«If existing class - A projects are in neighborhoods where lots of new supply is coming on stream, some discounting tends to be seen at those properties, too,» says Willett.
So I went further south to MV where I could afford a studio in a working class neighborhood.
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