Sentences with phrase «immigrant neighborhood in»

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 2012, Pacheco exhibited her first installation work, «Boobs», a series of breast - shaped soft sculptures made in collaboration with disenfranchised women from La Carpio, an immigrant neighborhood in Costa Rica.

Not exact matches

ProsperUS does all of their work in the neighborhoods assisting immigrant and minority entrepreneurs.

Born to Eastern European Jewish immigrants, he grew up in a tough neighborhood of Boston, sharing a one - room tenement with his parents and three siblings.

Gonzalez said three are immigrants; jurors» occupations include flight attendant, software engineer, nurse, marketing accountant and health economist; and they live in a variety of neighborhoods, from Visitacion Valley, Bernal Heights and the Excelsior to the Mission District, Russian Hill and Nob Hill.

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.»

While my husband was getting his Ph. D at Princeton, we became close friends with an immigrant family in our neighborhood.

John Mariani tells us in his The Dictionary of American Food & Drink that Americans have come to know cheesecakes made with cream cheese as «New York» or «Jewish» Cheesecakes, and ones made with ricotta as «Italian» Cheesecakes, with both types having their roots in immigrant New York City neighborhoods.

I live in an neighborhood with a large immigrant population.

A Little Village neighborhood group on Wednesday announced that it will launch a campaign to get the Chicago Park District to fulfill its three - year - old promise to build and staff a park in the predominantly Mexican immigrant community.

Relief workers who help in Latino neighborhoods say many of their intended recipients are undocumented immigrants, who worry that applying to food banks or other seemingly official institutions might result in deportation.

I live in a poor and working class neighborhood with many new immigrants, and never run into this attitude.

Staff members at the school say that sentiment is pretty common in this working - class neighborhood of largely Asian immigrants.

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.

With the devastation in Europe following World War II, many additional immigrants found their way to Chicago and the Rogers Park neighborhood.

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.

He said immigrants from 71 countries live in the four neighborhoods, many of whom are small business owners.

A day earlier, Cuomo addressed a group of union workers and said he was «raised by poor immigrants from South Jamaica,» a neighborhood in Queens, New York.

In the city's neighborhoods with the highest concentration of immigrants, DiNapoli said the number of businesses grew by 14.8 percent between 2000 and 2007 — far faster than the rest of the city, which grew by 3.3 percent.

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.

He is a democrat, and represents District 25 in the city, including the immigrant - rich neighborhoods of Jackson Heights and Elmhurst.

The Abdeslam brothers, the sons of Moroccan immigrants, were raised in the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels.

Incumbent Rory Lancman, who represents the 24th District, covering Jamaica, Jamaica Hills, Jamaica Estates, Briarwood, Kew Gardens Hills and Fresh Meadows, is facing a challenge from Bangladesh - born Mohammad Rahman, an employment planner at the Department of Social Services, who vows to fight for immigrant rights, public safety and senior services in the neighborhood.

When immigrant parents live in neighborhoods with a high concentration of people from their same ethnic background, their babies weigh less than those of Canadian - born parents.

You do not certainly have to go looking for the right place in the neighborhoods inhabited by immigrants.

'» jokes Troche, the child of immigrant parents who grew up hiding her minority identity on multiple levels in a tough Chicago neighborhood during the 1960s and»70s.

Every immigrant recognizes the hunger Ronit feels when she orders favorite dishes from a cafe in the old neighborhood — nothing tastes better than nostalgia.

Baker lives around the corner from Donut Time and, having made films about other disenfranchised groups — Chinese immigrant food delivery men in «Take Out,» Manhattan street hustlers in «Prince of Broadway» and down - and - out porn actors in «Starlet» — he was curious about his own neighborhood.

Crown Heights is the Brooklyn neighborhood where Colin Warner, a Trinidadian immigrant, was living in 1980 when he was arrested for second - degree murder.

When the late Max Kargman started developing affordable housing in the 1960s, his ideas about how it should look were informed by his own humble beginnings as the son of Russian immigrants growing up in a low - income, inner - city neighborhood.

The Seventh Annual Academic Olympiad Comes to HGSE When the late Max Kargman started developing affordable housing in the 1960s, his ideas about how it should look were informed by his own humble beginnings as the son of Russian immigrants growing up in a low - income, inner - city neighborhood.

I think this commitment is represented well by HGSE faculty members, including some hired during my deanship, for example: Nancy Hill with her work on parenting and family socialization practices across ethnic, socio - economic, and neighborhood contexts; Meira Levinson with her work on civic and multicultural education; Natasha Warikoo with her work on race, immigration, inequality, and culture as they relate to education; and Hiro Yoshikawa with his work on the development of young children in immigrant families.

In some cases, the controversy has pitted the neighborhood's African - American residents against the immigrants from Central America who live among them.

In fact, prior research has shown that refugees, and recent immigrants in general, are more likely to settle in neighborhoods with larger shares of immigrants from their country of origiIn fact, prior research has shown that refugees, and recent immigrants in general, are more likely to settle in neighborhoods with larger shares of immigrants from their country of origiin general, are more likely to settle in neighborhoods with larger shares of immigrants from their country of origiin neighborhoods with larger shares of immigrants from their country of origin.

Tanya is the proud daughter of Haitian immigrants and a native New Yorker, currently living in the Bedford - Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

Initially Milwaukee Catholic schools served immigrant families, today our schools serve mostly high poverty neighborhoods in the city with more than 80 % of our student population considered economically disadvantaged.

Maybe if they had landed in a neighborhood with other immigrants who knew the language and customs they had just left it would have been at least more bearable?

Pura Belpré, the first Puerto Rican librarian hired by the New York Public Library, introduced immigrants living in El Barrio to the library and hosted the neighborhood's first Three Kings» Day fiesta.

But when Graciela, a young Mexican immigrant, appears in the neighborhood in search of Doc's services, miraculous things begin to happen.

Over the years, these ethnoburbs have overtaken more urban ethnic neighborhoods especially in instances where the makeup of the new immigrants are mostly professionals working in suburban satellite belts of large cities.

I live in an immigrant neighborhood, and can vouch for their practices of importing multiple (and diseased) dogs from Mexico.

For more than 150 years, the neighborhood has been one of the first places immigrants settle in the city, in part because of the relatively inexpensive housing prices.

Just a short ride on the subway (7 Train) from Manhattan is Jackson Heights, Queens, one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the city (if not the country) with over 65 % of the population made up of immigrants, and an estimated 138 languages spoken here.

Some of the oldest extant working - class neighborhoods include those in the Southwest such Corktown, established by Irish immigrants and those in the middle - class West Vernor - Junction area.

Neighborhood folkloric dance groups and musicians reflecting the diverse immigrant communities in Queens» neighborhoods perform throughout the day.

Currently, she is carrying out a long - term art project, Immigrant Movement International, presented by Creative Time and the Queens Museum of Art, in which she spends a year operating a community space in the multinational and transnational neighborhood of Corona, Queens.

In 1979, the conceptual artist snapped several photographs of the Lower East Side, then a gritty neighborhood of immigrants.

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 oImmigrant Movement International, a community space in the heavily immigrant neighborhood oimmigrant neighborhood of Corona.

Reddy is also in charge of the museum's community engagement initiatives which combine arts and culture with social development goals in nearby neighborhoods predominately comprised of new immigrants, including programs that address language access, healthcare, public space advocacy, and the mortgage crisis.

The teddy bear's invention in 1902 by an immigrant Jewish couple in the same Brooklyn neighborhood where Palestine was born has become a near obsession for the artist.