Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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N.Y.U., located in Greenwich Village, is putting its experts to work helping neighborhood artists and actors, creating smokeless incinerators, improving slum schools, and studying New York's complex fiscal situation. Columbia has contributed heavily to the redevelopment of Manhattan's Morningside Heights, including helping to hire private patrolmen for the crime-ridden area around the school; graduate students of its School of Architecture have worked out a beautification project involving the Hudson River waterfront between Yonkers and Peekskill...
According to one official, BRA studies showed that Madison Park was "residual area." "The only ones left in this neighborhood," he said, "are the ones who couldn't get out." Original BRA plans suggested that the area would be best used for non-residential purposes...
Madison Park residents said little while these proposals were being discussed in City Hall and at School Committee headquarters. The lack of commotion, especially since people were going to be relocated, seemed to confirm BRA findings that Madison Park was a neighborhood but not a community...
...French reporter, Jacques Moalic, scaled casualties down to perhaps two or three dead but reported that the heavily residential neighborhood around the Paul Doumer bridge spanning the Red River (the city's limits at that point) had been "devastated." The French Communist daily L'Humanité also said that the Chinese embassy had been "touched by a projectile," whatever that meant. Peking caught the clue, soon put out a dispatch claiming that U.S. planes had "dive-bombed" the embassy and hit the nearby office of the New China News Agency...
...said, "I couldn't get the driver to believe I wanted to buy the thing from him-he thought I just wanted a ride." Thing is, just about everyone in Wesley Heights wants a ride now. "I've been a lot more popular lately with the neighborhood kids," puffed Symington...