Word: knit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people of Howard Beach, Queens, have always been proud that their neighborhood is set apart, insulated from the rest of New York City. A close- knit community of modest row houses and trim gardens, it is bordered by Jamaica Bay to the south, Spring Creek Park to the west, Kennedy Airport to the east and a highway to the north. Along Cross Bay Boulevard, the community's main artery, clam bars and pizza parlors contend for local business, while above the street sea gulls lazily flap their wings. Most of Howard Beach's inhabitants are Italians, and its older section...
...engineers of a technology whose emblematic climax was John and Washington Roebling's Brooklyn Bridge, were among the prototypes of European avant-garde thinking before and after World War I. Even to the Russian constructivists, "Americanism" was something infinitely desirable: it stood for electricity, progress, a society knit together and made transparent by fast communication...
...area of close-knit families, strangers stand out, making police undercover work nearly impossible. Good informants are tough to recruit because, as DEA Agent Kenneth Miley explains, "families don't tell on families," although that has changed some now that the feds pay bigger money for solid tips. Nonetheless, the established smuggling networks ensure a continuity to operations. After the feds busted one cocaine runner last year, his brother took over. When he was arrested, another brother came to the fore...
...Sullivan lineage in Cambridge politics has been "good for the community, creating a sense of commitment and stabiltiy in the neighborhood," says Danehy. "They are a close-knit family that inspires and rallies around one another...
...1960s, the close-knit New York City real estate community took notice of the new kids in town when the Tisches built the Summit Hotel, two apartment buildings and several motels. They acquired other hotels across the U.S., including the Mark Hopkins in San Francisco and the Ambassador hotels in Chicago...