It was a banner year for gentrification, with rising real estate prices forcing residents
out of neighborhoods now deemed «hip», like Highland Park and the L.A. River's string of warehouses, renamed the «Arts District» — making Los -LSB-...]
It was a banner year for gentrification, with rising real estate prices forcing residents
out of neighborhoods now deemed «hip», like Highland Park and the L.A. River's string of warehouses, renamed the «Arts District» — making Los Angeles the least affordable rental market in the country.
Not exact matches
As Rupert Scofield, the president and CEO
of FINCA International, writes in the recently released Social Entrepreneur's Handbook, «whether your mission is as ambitious as pulling millions
of people
out of poverty or as modest as feeding people in your
neighborhood,
now is the perfect time to get started.
I wish the 20 % advice wasn't so prevalent — many
of my own employees have been waiting to buy places until they have 20 % and they have
now been priced
out of a lot
of the better
neighborhoods that would have been accessible with a 5 % down payment.
Not willing to call Twitter's bluff, the city offered a deal to the company, which
now works
out of space in the gritty but fashionable South
of Market district where many Internet start - ups begin: move to a building in the even more gritty and decidedly less fashionable mid-Market
neighborhood — on a section
of Market Street that is marred by drug dealing, homeless encampments and shuttered storefronts — and get a payroll tax exemption.
Usually I fault the parents a bit more than the kids but one time some little shitty girl in our
neighborhood who spent all
of last year playing with my kids decided that
now she's grown as an 8 year old and she started bullying the shit
out of my son.
For nearly a year
now, the project has inflamed passions around the
neighborhood, with opponents arguing its bed count is
out of scale with its East Chelsea surroundings.
With a tap
of your phone or a click
of a mouse you can
now find
out exactly what crimes are occurring in your
neighborhood even the date and time they happened by using the NYPD's new CompStat 2.0 website.
As evidenced by de Blasio's latest budget outline and Friday's hearing, one
of the most important issues at play right
now is the city's plan for reforming and revitalizing NYC Health + Hospitals, which was laid
out in a new report, One New York: Health Care for Our
Neighborhoods.
«From its inception to
now, the proposed text amendment tells the story
of Build it Back's dramatic progress under Mayor de Blasio's leadership: the idea for the amendment came
out of a community - level meetings in Queens, it was produced with collaboration across agencies, and it is being passed to help homeowners who were stuck because
of burdensome regulations so that they can begin rebuilding their homes and making their
neighborhoods more resilient,» said AMY PETERSON, Director
of the Mayor's Office
of Housing Recovery.
According to sources close to the fast - and - furious negotiations that have been going on all day, the Democrats
now have somewhere in the
neighborhood of 21 or 22 «yes» votes - far too few for the Republicans to make up the difference, even if they disposed to help
out at this point, which they decidedly are not.
Rachelle Griffin, marketing manager for iMARC Engraving Systems, agrees that ID tag equipment has «evolved tremendously over the years» and points
out that
now consumers can walk
out of their
neighborhood pet shop with an ID tag that is not only personalized with the pet's name and pet owners» contact information, but also reflects their personal interests and sense
of style.
Intrepid gourmands venture into the less - polished Grau
neighborhood to seek
out Ca'Sento (17 Carrer Méndez Núñez; 34/96-330 -1775; dinner for two $ 250), the intimate family - run haute temple
now headed by Ferran Adrià disciple Raúl Aleixandre (named chef
of the year in 2004 by the Academia Española de Gastronomía).
This is embodied both in the biennial's sponsorship — represented most egregiously in its sponsorship by Sotheby's, which has locked
out its unionized art handlers — and the museum's imminent move to the Meat Packing District, a
neighborhood where artists once lived and worked which is
now a gentrified tourist destination that serves the interests
of the real estate industry.
A
neighborhood explosion has brought nearly a dozen fresh eateries to Chelsea and its vicinity in the past seven months — with some
of the newcomers as luxe as the blue - chip mini-museums and one - percenter condominiums
now pricing middle - market galleries
out of the area.
Now, this is a recipe for a pretty standard show, but what makes Sawyer's approach stand
out is how his juxtapositions give us greater insight into a less pictured part
of California — not just lower income
neighborhoods, but the social and governmental structures that support them.
Ft (2014)- 10 New York
Neighborhoods for Artists
Now Fodor's — Listed under «Things to Do» in NYC Hyperallergic (2013)- This Weekend: Gowanus Open Studios Park Slope Reader (2013)- An Art Scene, A Plan, A Canal: Gowanus Park Slope Patch (2013)- Community Corner - Gowanus Open Studios 2013 Observer (2013)- Gowanus Whole Foods Determined to Fulfill Every Brooklyn Stereotype The New Yorker (2013)- A Whole Foods Grows in Brooklyn Time
Out New York (2013)- The Gowanus Whole Foods Partners with Arts Gowanus New York Times (2012)-- Gallerists to the People, by William Grimes Time
Out New York (2012)-- Something to do on a Perfect Weekend DNAinfo New York (2012)-- Gowanus Open Studios Tour Features Workspaces
of 150 Artists, by Leslie Albrecht
One
of the
neighborhood youths who was originally questioned in 1995,
now picked Lance Felder
out of a photo array.
But during the payout period, if you get another ticket you lose the deferment and you wind up with both tickets on your record and some very hefty fines — somewhere in the
neighborhood of $ 1,000, plus your insurance company finds
out and that will increase you insurance, because
now you're in the high risk category.
Since their kids are
out of the house, they can
now move into their dream
neighborhood.
So what I do
now is ask the guy right up front if his wife is onboard, if they've checked
out neighborhoods and whether this is something that'll work for both
of them.
Now backyard beekeepers want Los Angeles to follow in the footsteps
of New York and Santa Monica, spelling
out rules to let people keep bees in residential
neighborhoods.