Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resident of long standing and very well-known in the community. Also, it is primarily people beholden to the incumbent for a job or some other favor who vote in the primaries. This is especially true on a rainy day, and that June day it poured. Finally, the neighborhood was staunchly conservative and unlikely to view Lindsay-flavor Republicanism favorably. Therefore Lindsay workers carefully avoided mentioning the mayor; instead they asked voters to support "a dynamic ticket" which was committed to building a strong party...
While members of the neighborhood clubs would be tied to Lindsay and to the Republican party, the members of the CIA's would owe their allegiance to the man but not necessarily to the party, Price speculated that these agencies would attract young people into a revitalized Republican party. These new party members would be just as willing to campaign for a Republican district leader as for Mayor Lindsay...
...Their neighborhood--predominantly Negro Bedford-Stuyvesant--is to be the staging area for a comprehensive and costly experiment in community renovation. The idea is for government and private enterprise to sit down with the community to help solve the problem that residents want solved. The prospects: massive housing rehabilitation, more jobs, more hospitals, more parks, and more local autonomy in overseeing city services from schools to sanitation. Some enthusiasts have the neighborhood beginning to glitter and smile inside of five years...
...huge undertaking. Bedford-Stuyvesant houses something like 350,000 people in its 464 city blocks. That's a population the size of Rochester's, an area equivalent to downtown Boston from the waterfront to Back Bay. The neighborhood supports few businesses that are not owned by whites who live elsewhere, and few lucrative businesses of any type. A third of Bedford-Stuyvesant's household are headed by women; on warm days, their children clog the sidewalks and whatever part space there is. Unemployment is high, especially among youths who drop out of school. "At my school," one girl said recently...
CBCC has in its eight years served as an articulate spokesman for the neighborhood, putting demands to various city agencies and often getting what it wants--a near-by community college, a new narcotics-addiction treatment center. Three years ago, a CBCC committee was designated to run the community's poverty program...