Sentences with phrase «immigrant neighborhood of»
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.
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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.
When Jobe launched New Life Community Church 25 years ago, the Midway neighborhood where his main campus is located was primarily populated by descendants of Polish, Lithuanian and Italian immigrants.
After departing from the university, Morrison returned to the Monroe Street Church, where he ministered somewhat restlessly while the congregation and neighborhood changed with the large influx of immigrants.
And far many more benefited as the Church aided the poor, treated the sick and helped assimilate wave uponwave of immigrants... Neighborhoods were anchored by parish churches, and by parochial schools that still serve as models of education.»
If one needs an image or metaphor to describe our current Catholic literary culture, I would say that it resembles the present state of the old immigrant urban neighborhoods our grandparents inhabited.
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.»
Dana Gioia likens a renewal of Catholic literature to the renovation of our lost immigrant neighborhoods: «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.»
Though far from the Nordic countries, the little neighborhood north of downtown Seattle had drawn immigrants by the thousands over the years.
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.
My neighborhood was full of immigrants from Cork.
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.
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.
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.
Some neighborhoods have a high density of such illegally converted homes, with the residents often undocumented immigrants.
This district includes Chinatown, a neighborhood that has steadfastly served as the epicenter of growth and opportunity for many Asian immigrants since the 1900s.
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.
Elmhurst, Corona, Jackson Heights, Sunnyside and Woodside top the list of the city's neighborhoods with the highest concentration of immigrants.
One, Dr. Dhanpaul Narine, a Guyanese immigrant who is a «special» education teacher, emphasizes «special» education issues from the perspective of a teacher, not a student or parent, and accordingly seeks to segregate disabled students from their peers and neighborhood schools.
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.
The Coney Island section of the district primarily consists of blacks and Russian - speaking immigrants, while the Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bath Beach neighborhoods are traditional ethnic Italian and Irish strongholds with growing Asian and Eastern European populations.
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.
The North Side neighborhood that once housed mostly German and Italian immigrants is now home to a new group of immigrants where 20 percent of families speak a language other than English at home, according to U.S. Census data.
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.
Chicago was chosen for this study because a great deal of neighborhood research has been conducted there and the city has significant pockets of immigrants to draw data from, King said.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's second feature depicts the intolerance of a circle of financially and sexually frustrated friends when an immigrant laborer (Fassbinder) moves to their Munich neighborhood.
'» 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.
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.
Ernest Borgnine plays Joe as a dedicated officer determined to win over the largely Sicilian immigrant population of his neighborhood, a group that brought its mistrust of the police with them from the old country, where police corruption was rampant.
But when the people who did it are found, they turn out to be neo-Nazis who targeted the neighborhood because of its large immigrant population.
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.
Due to a large influx of new immigrants and refugees to the area from Central America, Africa, and the Middle East — most notably Kurdistan and Syria, earning one neighborhood the nickname Little Kurdistan — at least 18 percent of MNPS students are now English - language learners, and a full third of students do not speak English at home.
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 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.
Further, as one of the rare institutions that welcomes all, closing down a nearby neighborhood school would place a large burden on many immigrant Latino families when the school is quite possibly the only social service that they can access.
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.
Kreuzberg has long been home to artists, activists, and a lively population of Turkish immigrants, which is what makes the neighborhood so compelling to visitors.