Sentences with phrase «neighborhoods working side»

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VOICE congregations on the West Side have conducted another round of neighborhood interviewing and are now working on issues such as housing, economic development and recreational facilities for youth and seniors.

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.

Since 2011, Keith has worked for City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, Sr. helping to advocate for after school funding, expanded Advanced Placement, prevent bullying of LGBT students in public schools, secure funding for employment and workforce programs, create new affordable housing, and preserve the quality of life on the Upper East Side, In 2006, Keith was the tenant organizer for the «Preserve Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village» campaign during the sale of the neighborhood to Tishman Speyer.

Thanks to the hard work of PUSH Buffalo, and historic investments from New York State, neighborhood revitalization is real, and every day new families are finding great places to live on Buffalo's West Side».

Plans are already in the works to build a new neighborhood on the far West Side, anchored by the Hudson Yards development, a group of skyscrapers envisioned to be built on top of the West Side Yards.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has a working workout almost every day at the Y in his old Brooklyn neighborhood, to which he is chauffeured from Gracie Mansion on the Upper East Side.

City Councilman Ben Kallos (D - Manhattan), who represents the Upper East Side, said the neighborhood is «disappointed» the mayor continues to shy away from the area, and wishes de Blasio would work out closer to Gracie Mansion.

Many of the city's largest civic groups, many economists and West Side neighborhood groups agreed with Mr. Silver's opposition, though sometimes for different reasons, saying the stadium would hurt development by discouraging office tenants and residents who would not want to work and live next to it.

Tell the Community Board and the City that the real Lower East Side — that means our families, the working class backbone of this great neighborhood — won't relent until the plan is right.

He was raised on New York City's lower east side in a working - class neighborhood.

On one side are the heroic parents and teachers who are working tirelessly to save and improve one of Hartford's local neighborhood schools.

While the neighborhood celebrates the most outstanding piece — a dragon — William spies the Night Gardener and follows him into Grimloch Park, where the two work side - by - side through the night, shaping the park's many trees.

The neighborhood yards still yellow and concrete hard, the side panels of the cars you pass on the way home from work spattered with arcing crusts of road salt, the big oaks and elms that loom along Lake Shore Drive throwing down long pale rows of shadow.

Why it works: The folks at Jameson Loves Danger, a pet boutique and «Pet» Spaw» located in the Andersonville neighborhood on the north side of Chicago, understand that social media can be a great way to promote a special sales event.

Commissions of new work will include: a single - channel video piece by William Lamson, who will explore a double mirror video project filmed on a boat; artist Carmen Papalia will lead his Blind Field Shuttle walk; Todd Shalom will lead an artist walk through the west side of Buffalo; and The Grass is Always Greener — a collaboration with art collective Fallen Fruit to bring fruit trees back to Buffalo's Fruit Belt neighborhood as part of their Endless Orchard project.

This recent body of work takes its starting point with the gallery's neighborhood in mind, considering site - specificity in both the use of found materials, as well as the sentiment and spirit of the Lower East Side.

It was with the same poise that the rest of the work in this long - awaited, artist - conceived exhibition inhabited Mnuchin Gallery, filling two stories of the Upper East Side town house with a subtle menace and a set of social concerns that the neighborhood's brass - handled doors and iron gates seem designed to keep out.

The Los Angeles - based painter Henry Taylor, meanwhile, turns his gaze on the communities he knows — whether the patients at the mental hospital where he once worked or, more recently, people from the streets around his studio in downtown L.A. Maya Stovall, an anthropologist and choreographer, dances in front of liquor stores in her neighborhood on the east side of Detroit, before interviewing local patrons and passersby about the city, the streets around them, and the place of art in their lives.

Three exhibitions will include works by lithographers Clinton Adams and June Wayne of the Tamarind Institute, as well as by Chicago artists Barbara Jones - Hogu and Jose Guerrero, from the city's South Side and Pilsen neighborhood, respectively.

And while more established galleries see Bushwick and Bed - Stuy as affordable alternatives to Chelsea or the Lower East Side, many artist - run galleries have made this neighborhood their home for many years by default — without the resources and the option to pay higher rents in the city, artist - run spaces have been finding ways to make it work in their own neighborhoods and communities.

Smith lives and works in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City.

Motley was born in New Orleans, but during the first half of the 20th century he lived and worked in a predominately white neighborhood on Chicago's Southwest side, a few miles from the city's growing black community known as «Bronzeville.»

Founded by Fernando Mignoni in fall 2017, the gallery which is located in the Upper East Side neighborhood of New York specializes in works by prominent European & American post-war artists with a focus on minimalism.

On his own block on the South Side of Chicago, Gates has engineered a miniature urban utopia, turning the once - blighted buildings that surround him into artist residencies, a library and even a cinema house that shows works by aspiring filmmakers from the neighborhood.

Since he began work on his now famed Dorchester Projects in 2009, Gates's transformation of a once - neglected South Side neighborhood into a thriving cultural hub has yielded an enclave of buildings that offer an array of cultural programming, from gardening to youth art classes to Black Cinema.

Fake brownstones in facsimiles of NYC's Upper East and West Sides, Greenwich Village, and even Downtown neighborhoods held photographic work from galleries on four continents.

Martin: The north side was a sleepy, working - class neighborhood and the south side was a deserted, very dangerous neighborhood.

With the Lower East Side fast losing connections to its history as an alternative neighborhood for art and politics, two summer group shows remind us of artists who lived and worked there, and have, through example, passed its spirit on.

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In that piece he proposed that Obama's early work as a community organizer in such neighborhoods in the 1980s may well have shaped how he built an administration focused on the human side of disaster preparedness and response.

Spring is in the air, and soon the sights and sounds of work crews installing new roofs, replacing siding, building decks, and planting greenery will appear all around your neighborhood.

The court sided with New London, Conn., city officials whose economic development plan calls for taking homes in a working class neighborhood to make way for private developers.

In 2016, volunteers worked on 12 homes and a community garden in the Reeb - Hosack neighborhood in Columbus» south side.

He's living in one of them on Adams Street and is working with a crew on Morton Street in the South Park neighborhood in Dayton to fix up two side - by - side shotgun - style homes.

We normally get together with both sides of the family, have church parties, and work parties and neighborhood parties during the holidays and it can get very hectic and exhausting.