Sentences with phrase «presides over a neighborhood»
Mr. Rangel and his predecessor, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., presided over the neighborhood through 13 presidents, segregation, civil rights sit - ins, riots, crack, abandonment and now years of slow but steady growth.
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His newly acquired wisdom is put to the test when he enlists the neighborhood elephant to preside over his daughter's Hindu wedding and falls in love with the groom's mother.
Her parents, Poju and Anita, preside over the Zabludowicz Collection, with holdings of some 4,000 works and an exhibition space in a former Methodist chapel in the Belsize Park neighborhood.