Sentences with phrase «through small neighborhoods»

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The neighborhood is a great example of «new urbanism,» designed to promote a sense of community through the development / use of a small town square, common green spaces, a community pool and gym, and retail and dining options.

One small example of this in our neighborhood is the urban farm one of my friends and mentors started to provide jobs to «returning citizens»: It required the city to help give away land and clear vacant property and some startup capital from a local farming company, but it is based on the church's understanding of the needs of the people and explicitly tied to the concept that faithful believers can help disciple and encourage people who have been incarcerated for harming others, walking them through the transformative process.

CNN: In Queens, carver tells religious stories through wood The sounds of hammers and saws fill the air in the small workshop of the Byzantion Woodworking Company in the Queens neighborhood of Astoria.

I noticed a small sign that said PICK YOUR OWN CHARD so I wandered through the entrance — into a little oasis in the middle of a residential neighborhood just south of the city — and tiptoed around, looking for someone to see if I could actually pick my own chard or if it was more of one of those I choose my own chard and you physically pick it for me kinda deals.

Long before she passed through the Golden Door, Barbara — who was then a Heilman — went to small neighborhood Quaker schools in Moorestown, N.J. and Philadelphia suburbs, where she grew up, daughter of a senior vice-president of the Insurance Company of North America.

The Action Plan is a culmination of the Jamaica Now Planning Initiative and is designed to address the challenges that have faced the Jamaica area in recent years by providing workforce training and small business support, initiating new mixed - use development anchored by affordable housing, and improving the livability of the neighborhood through investments in safety measures, green spaces, and more.

Also at 11:30 a.m., Bushwick faith leaders, small business owners and residents march and rally through Bushwick to call on Albany to close major loopholes in rent laws that are driving the loss of affordable housing in the neighborhood, Make the Road New York's office, 301 Grove St., Brooklyn.

Researchers believe that such visitors may zip through our neighborhood about once a year, but they're usually too small to see.

It seems to me that the whole charter school movement, at which KIPP is at the forefront, has benefited the small percent of students who make it through the KIPP program — they have a lot of attrition — and also benefits «the adults» like the teachers and the administrators there, but that benefit has come at a much much larger cost, the destruction of neighborhood schools and displacement of unwanted students.

Newark's middle school students stay in their elementary schools through eighth grade, and high schools tend to be small and specialized, with enrollment determined by an application process, not by neighborhood.

Digital magazines, newspapers, video channels, even dissemination of digital content through social media have given a voice to everyone from neighborhood residents to small businesses and startups, all for a far more cost effective and reach potential than any previous format.

But this stellar walking crew gets a perfect score for small playgroups, neighborhood and trail hikes, and one - on - one, personalized strolls through town.

Red writes: On Wednesday night I was riding my bicycle through a Seminole County neighborhood when I saw what looked like a couple of small Florida black bears playing together near the top of a tree.

The iconic tram # 28 runs through the Baixa, Bairro Alto and Alfama districts, clunking past small neighborhood grocers and cafes.

With all new work comprised of video installations, sculptures, photographs, and found ephemera, Torres blends together small narratives of a time he deeply admired through depictions of youthful pastimes and symbolic neighborhood tokens.

A small cottage in the mountains, an old corvette, a yearly vacation, these were all thoughts that started consuming his mind as Ron would take his evening walk through the neighborhood.

Equipped with a small pushcart and collection bins, a two - person team conducts daily walks through the neighborhood, gathering waste bags and doing repairs.

The Little Folks School, Inc. is a small independent Nursery School located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1973, this unique program serves 40 children, ages two and a half through age five.