Sentences with phrase «out of the neighborhood by»

The sign attempts to rename part of the borough as the Piano District, encapsulating many of the fears borough residents have about being pushed out of their neighborhoods by gentrification and rising rents.

Dubbed the Community Business Stability Act, it will ensure «mom and pop shops are not forced out of the neighborhood by high rents,» he said.

New York has Sachs, a down - to - earth city scion who tackled love and apartment - hunting in the must - see Love Is Strange and returns to examine the budding friendship between two Brooklyn kids: an introvert with art skills and the safety net of white privilege, and an audacious aspiring actor being pushed out of the neighborhood by gentrification.

Not exact matches

The rest of the afternoon flies by and before I know it, it's time to check out the evening commute report, dinner options in my neighborhood, and my outfit for tonight's date, which was put together by WhatToWear (at some point all these companies stopped coming up with clever names and just called themselves by descriptions; less confusing for me).

«When I was 22 years old, a guy who owned a little bodega in my neighborhood told me, «If you really want to start a company, you better dig under your couch for a couple of extra dollars, stop going out to dinner four times a month, trade in your car for a cheaper one, and raise that $ 40,000 or $ 30,000, if you can, by yourself.»»

The team out of the University of California, Berkeley and University College London tested how people mentally estimate distance and travel times by having 20 foreign students in London draw, in detail, the neighborhood surrounding their residence.

Attempts by Jews to move their people out of the urban centers and into colonies on the land have not been successful save in the neighborhood of big cities or in special circumstances.

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.

A former Highlandtown businessman just out of federal prison was identified as the victim fatally shot by masked men in a neighborhood barbershop Monday evening.

I heard of a woman today who got attacked by a dog, climbed a telephone pole, fell out of a tree, was yelled at by a police officer on a 911 call, got patched in to the State Police in New York, was almost arrested and sent to jail, trespassed on several people's property, hurtled fences and hedges in a mad dash through a neighborhood, and even convinced a former mayor of our town to call in some favors to the local power company.

African - Americans, he writes, «should stop undermining their own best interests by misguidedly favoring policies that preserve their ghetto neighborhoods, especially in light of the fact that the «hood» itself is not what it has been made out to be.»

Thus, if a minister today is not in process of being ousted, is regarded by at least many of his people as a wonderful Christian, a helpful preacher, a diligent pastor, and so on, he may rest content in this kind of status even though privately he is disturbed at all the kids who drop out of church school, at the inattentiveness of the church to its neighborhood, at the virtual neglect of older people, and at the bourgeois aroma that infects everything.

John McKnight of Northwestern University says that «neighborhoods must rebuild themselves from the inside out» by mobilizing their own assets, including residents, churches, colleges and businesses.

I'd read Yvonne Thornton's Ditchdigger's Daughters, and if that dad in a crime - ridden neighborhood could produce highly educated children by forcing them to practice music, then surely music lessons could help my suburban kids stay out of trouble.

The Mays moved here shortly after Bob's Valhalla adventure, driven out of their old neighborhood by well - intentioned fans who parked in front of the house or called their listed number at all hours.

Carbajal's love of family and his preoccupation with boxing kept him out of trouble in Verde Park, a Phoenix neighborhood that became increasingly beset by drugs and gangs.

Maybe scaring the bejesus out of some neighborhood kids by jumping out of bushes.

A flier by the group states that the project is «completely incompatible and out of character with the surrounding neighborhood, and will jeopardize property values.»

To my delight, out of the blue, she will sometimes spontaneously list all the things she loves about our house, our neighborhood, our view, the store that offers the stuff we need, the birds flying by, and on and on.

National Night Out is nationally sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch (NATW), a non-profit organization dedicated to the development and promotion of various crime prevention programs including neighborhood watch groups, law enforcement agencies, state and regional crime prevention associations, businesses, civic groups, and individuals, devoted to safer communities.

One only has to stake out the Damen «L» stop on any given weekday morning to see just how cross-pollinated the neighborhood has become; Gypsies, art - students, white - and blue - collar employees of all races stand shoulder to shoulder during the rush hours, submitting themselves to a sort of random casting call, linked only by their roles as commuters... and as neighbors.

«This is a fast, easy and free way to keep tabs on who's moving in and out of your neighborhood,» Klein said, noting the e-mail alert system will piggy - back on the existing emergency alert system run by the state Department of Homeland Security.

And, it seems, the community's concerns about being priced out of neighborhoods targeted by the de Blasio administration as oases of affordability are not idle: The Wall Street Journal reports that land prices in East New York, named by de Blasio as the first neighborhood that would be studied for denser development, have nearly tripled during the first nine months of 2012, rising from $ 32 per square foot last year to $ 93 per square foot this year.

After saying she believed troops could be out of Iraq by 2013, Maloney touted the grant for the Sunnyside Yards, which run near the south side of Northern Boulevard and Jackson Avenue in the neighborhood.

Chelsea residents have repeatedly voiced concerns over the plans, believing it is out of context with the low - rise neighborhood and would further erode a residential community decimated by luxury high - rises and High Line tourists.

Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.

The speaker took heat for his position from local leaders and housing advocates who accused him of opposing affordable housing to preserve his voter base in the largely Jewish neighborhood by keeping out other groups.

«Young people moving in and wanting to make the neighborhood better then you got ten people on a street keeping an eye out instead of one, because when you're by yourself trying to keep an eye on everything it may be disheartening, it may be too much,» Ryan said.

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.

But he said he wouldn't measure its success in the number of arrests, but on whether crime goes down — pointing out that quality of life problems plaguing neighborhoods can be solved sometimes by asking someone to move along, or telling them what they are doing is illegal.

According to a December 2014 report by the Center for NYC Neighborhoods and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, more than 42,000 homeowners have been conned out of $ 100 million nationwide.

He also spoke of the need to prevent development that works against those who have lived in Buffalo neighborhoods for years by pricing them out of the ability to stay.

«By harnessing the power of communities, we can and will make our neighborhoods safer for all New Yorkers,» she said of the program, which will be rolled out this spring in five neighborhoods, including Harlem's 32nd police precinct.

Fresh faced, wearing metal - rimmed glasses and a silky black dress cinched at the waist, she resembles more a neighborhood volunteer than a politician — an identity born out of her upbringing in the Glen Oaks section of Eastern Queens, where she was raised by a father who was a labor organizer and a mother who was a tenant lawyer.

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.

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Supporters of Council member Chin point out that any proposal floated over the years to focus on one section of the neighborhood, such as Two Bridges, has been denounced in the strongest terms by some local activists.

Commissioner Vicki Been kicked off a City Planning Commission hearing Wednesday by testifying in support of the proposal that's expected to drastically alter East New York, amid repeated concerns from residents who fear the changes will push them out of the neighborhood.

«In every neighborhood, I've had neighbors and activists reach out to me with a sense that all of the hard work they do could be undercut by one developer who goes and just circumvents the planning process,» she said.

The Greenpoint - Williamsburg area has the eighth worst air quality out of the city's 59 community districts, behind highly trafficked neighborhoods like Midtown, Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen and the Upper East Side, according to a recent report released by the city's health department.

By sunrise on a warm December morning, Janila Shulu's team are out in the dirt roads and alleyways of Ungwan Rimi, a poor neighborhood in a predominantly Muslim section of Kaduna city in northern Nigeria.

A new study has found that Ediacaran organisms known as rangeomorphs reproduced by taking a joint approach: they first sent out an «advance party» to settle in a new area, followed by rapid colonization of the new neighborhood.

So when I stopped by my neighborhood American Apparel the other day, I decided I was going to try out some «out of the box» items like these linen pleated pants (Calvary Twill High - Waist Pleated Pant).

Over the past two years it's become of my favorite little neighborhoods on the east side of Manhattan and whenever I'm out running errands, I'll always will try and find a reason to walk by and admire all the beautiful town homes and apartments that line the park.

When we asked Joos to work this fall's trends by raiding EllE's own vintage collection, the sprightly fashion consultant rose to the challenge, sharing secrets for buying and wearing vintage and spearheading an outing to one of her favorite neighborhood vintage stores, Le Grand Strip, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

By the time Mitch gets out of prison, Ace is running the neighborhood.

DJ (Mitchell Musso) has spent years staking out the neighborhood crank, Mr. Nebbercracker (Steve Buscemi), and his tumbledown house, the one in stark contrast to the otherwise pristine suburbs around it, all the while keeping a journal of exactly what he's been confiscating from the hapless neighborhood kids who trespass by so much as a millimeter on his sinister lawn.

The Salt of Life (Unrated) Midlife crisis comedy about an aging guy (Gianni Di Gregorio) neglected by his wife (Elisabetta Piccolomini) who decides to find out whether he's still attractive by flirting with neighborhood ladies.

However, the script nets parents a chance to talk about topics like the price of popularity, the dangers of lying and the lack of consequences faced by a trio of troublesome graffiti - spraying teens who hang out in the neighborhood.

But just as they thought they'd reclaimed the neighborhood and were safe to sell, they learn that the new occupants next door are a hard — partying, out - of - control sorority, led by Shelby (Chloe Grace Moretz).