Sentences with phrase «immigrant neighborhood»

Right now, Tatiana is also an Activist Designer for the Queens Museum's long term project, the Immigrant Movement International, a community space in the heavily immigrant neighborhood of Corona.

Lowe has initiated similarly arts - driven redevelopment projects in other cities, including the Watts House Project in Los Angeles, a post-Katrina rebuilding effort in New Orleans, and, most recently, a vibrant community market in a densely populated, immigrant neighborhood in North Dallas.

In addition, she is helping plan a new long - term artist residency in Corona, Queens, the largely new - immigrant neighborhood on which the museum borders, with partners at Queens College CUNY.

Lush Life is set on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the old, largely Jewish immigrant neighborhood where Price's grandparents lived - and which today is a popular slumming spot for a young, mostly white crowd.

But working - class immigrant neighborhoods like these in Brooklyn suffer many afflictions: shabby buildings, drug dealing, too many young men with guns and too few with jobs.

Immigrant Movement International (IM) is a community space in the heavily immigrant neighborhood of Corona, Queens.

At the end of the century, tenement reformers and settlement workers led by Robert Woods attempted to remake impoverished, working - class, immigrant neighborhoods according to «the American standard» of propriety necessary to upward mobility.

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 homogenous, characterless suburbs of the imagination and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts that have such grace and personality, such strength and tradition.

Mr. Fast, an Israeli immigrant to the United States now living in Berlin, seems to have intended the Cohan gallery «waiting room» not as a replication of any real Chinatown but as the kind of fantasy version of immigrant neighborhoods evoked to justify «slum clearance.»

While living openly as a gay man on the Lower East Side, then a poor immigrant neighborhood with a large Latino population, he quickly became part of a burgeoning arts scene.

Running through Milwaukee is the Menominee River Valley, which has long separated primarily black neighborhoods on its north - side, with white, immigrant neighborhoods on its south - side.

There are, to be sure, local races in African - American or immigrant neighborhoods where getting The Times» nod doesn't much matter.

At a moment when South Asian communities, women, and immigrant neighborhoods like the Lower East Side are being targeted by an evidence - averse administration, this exhibition reflects on the complex global and personal histories that shape conflicting views of our contemporary moment.

«Junot Diaz's stories are as vibrant, tough, unexotic, and beautiful as their settings - Santa Domingo, Dominican Neuva York, the immigrant neighborhoods of industrial New Jersey with their gorgeously polluted skyscapes.