Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poorer, darker people move in to a neighborhood the middle class moves out. If they can afford it, they go to Westchester, Long Island, New Jersey, Florida or California. Those who stay in Brooklyn move southward towards the Atlantic Ocean, yielding more and more of the borough's north and center to poorer blacks. As a few black families move onto a block, the remaining whites fear they will be 'overrun' and the value of their property will decline. Seeing the downhill slide of the neighborhood in the first black face that moves in, they are apt to sell their...
...fashioned drilling is part of the daily fare at Westside Preparatory School, a one-room schoolhouse founded by Teacher Marva Collins, 37, as an alternative to the local inner-city schools. For 14 years Collins had taught in the neighborhood elementary school, where false fire alarms were set off a dozen times a day, teachers came to school stoned, and "all we were doing was creating more welfare recipients," she says. When she fought to keep her students with her for two years in a row in order to drill them thoroughly in spelling and grammar, other teachers tagged...
Smart little computers provide mental aerobics Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!" The sound of a fire bell, imitated flawlessly and gleefully by a high-pitched human voice, informs the neighborhood that Moppet has conquered Machine. They are well matched: Lizie is small, going on eleven, with brightly lit hazel eyes. The vanquished mechanism is a small desktop computer called Comp IV, new this year at under $40, with flashing red lights...
...beginning, there was the Block. Between Lexington and Third Avenues, 54th and 53rd Streets, it housed such familiar neighborhood establishments as Carroll's Pub, Lexington Sandwich Shoppe, a Pizza Plaza, a Howard Johnson's snack counter. Also, there was a haute cuisine restaurant, Café Chauveron, the Medical Chambers Building, owned cooperatively by 40 doctors, and Saint Peter's Lutheran Church, a handsome two-spired Gothic structure erected in 1905 and all but deserted by a suburban-bound congregation...
...brokers brought this notion to their boss, Julien Studley, then 41, head of an aggressive real estate firm in the neighborhood. "Who would put up the building?" Studley mused; then he had an idea. "How about the people across the street?" Across the street, as it happened, was the corporate headquarters of First National City Corp. (now Citicorp...