Sentences with phrase «minority neighborhoods of the city»

But it came at a time of heightened tension over the Police Department's tactic of stopping, questioning and sometimes frisking people in minority neighborhoods of the city.

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In 1981, when he was acting as adviser to then New Jersey gubernatorial candidate (later Governor) Tom Kean, the RNC assembled a ballot security force consisting of off - duty law enforcement officers wearing armbands that read «National Ballot Security Task Force» that was alleged to have engaged in voter intimidation in minority neighborhoods of Newark, Camden, Paterson, and other cities.

In seven cities, including New York, the percentage of Airbnb listings that fall in minority neighborhoods exceeds the percentage of hotel rooms that do.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

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.

The New York City Board of Elections» executive director testified to the City Council this morning that there is little evidence to support a Democratic election commisioner's caught - on - camera claims of extensive and systematic voter fraud in minority neighborhoods across the five boroughs.

Borough President James Oddo and Council Minority Leader Steven Matteo said the Department of Transportation's decision to not add stop signs to Greeley Avenue was inappropriate, given that the city last year planned to turn the neighborhood into a slow zone.

«The facts are simple and undeniable: majority - minority neighborhoods have for too long shouldered the burden of this city's waste so that communities like the Upper East Side didn't have to do so.

Larry English, a member of Community Board 9 and its former chair, said he found the recent bill that Quinn sponsored with Dickens to increase business opportunities with the city for minority and women entrepreneurs, a move directly aimed at the city's minority neighborhoods.

Although he is credited with lowering the use of stop - and - frisk and bringing crime to an all - time low in the city, his continual defense of the broken windows approach has earned him the ire of advocates who believe the method disproportionately targets minority neighborhoods and has led to mass incarceration.

That synched with one of de Blasio's highest priorities, to show that a progressive can keep the city safe while mending relations between cops and minority communities (not all the new hires will go to neighborhoods — 300 will be assigned to the NYPD's counterterrorism unit).

The theater has particular resonance as a symbol of a resurgent Brooklyn and of the city's investment in minority neighborhoods.

Students explore the impact of a plan to locate a new industry in a low - income neighborhood, then take on the roles of community members, business executives, and city officials as they advocate for and against building a power plant in a low - income minority neighborhood.

In recent months, the city's battle over school segregation has played out in a few specific schools in some of the its fastest - gentrifying (or already gentrified - to - saturation - point) neighborhoods: Nikole Hannah - Jones chronicled the Brooklyn version of the saga in her much - discussed New York Times Magazine piece last weekend, «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white populatcity's battle over school segregation has played out in a few specific schools in some of the its fastest - gentrifying (or already gentrified - to - saturation - point) neighborhoods: Nikole Hannah - Jones chronicled the Brooklyn version of the saga in her much - discussed New York Times Magazine piece last weekend, «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white populatCity,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly white population.

These five schools were located in neighborhoods with some of the highest retention rates in the city (after the promotion policy took effect), and they had large percentages of minority and poor students.

The Boston United group, which includes many parent organizers and community leaders from the city's minority neighborhoods, will be the more conciliatory of the two, sidestepping controversial issues such as merit pay for outstanding teachers in favor of a greater role for parents in school decision - making.

With the unleashing of their imaginations and mentorship from the National Organization of Minority Architects, four teams from Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools, Sci Academy and Urban League College Track spent the last year analyzing the needs of various neighborhoods around the city and then developing architectural plans designed to meet those needs.

Yet a front - page story in the New York Times last week dealt with how Success Academy, a high - performing charter school network in New York City's low - income and minority neighborhoods, has been accused of «weeding out weak or difficult students.»

New York city district administrators, therefore, now face the challenge of drawing and redrawing school zones as they try to find a balance between this intense segregation in these schools, the influx of white middle and upper - class families as gentrifiers, and the low - income minority families already in the neighborhood.

[14] As the significance of subsidized mortgage insurance on the housing market grew, home values in inner - city minority neighborhoods plummeted.