Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Almost from its beginnings, Citicorp Center was envisioned as a place to shop and savor and feast at all hours, an In spot in the inner city. To Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston, it will be "a living, positive part of the neighborhood, 24 hours a day, for decades to come. We would like to think of the Citicorp Center as the cornerstone of a new New York...
President Horner met with six Observatory Hill residents Monday to discuss redesigning the gym and other buildings, Topliffe Sawyer, president of Neighborhood Nine community action group said yesterday...
...friends claimed he was just a wealthy real estate investor who was harassed by overzealous, even jealous white authorities. Police contended he was the biggest heroin dealer in New York City, maybe in the country. To blacks in his old Harlem neighborhood, Leroy ("Nicky") Barnes, 45, was a legend of defiance and success. What he had he flaunted, and he had a great deal: 300 custom-tailored suits, a string of glamourous women and powerful friends in show business and politics. He drove two Citroën-Maseratis and four Mercedes. Ghetto kids, said a black police detective, "think...
...under round-the-clock surveillance for eight months, local authorities managed to arrest him only on a weapons charge-but the charges were dismissed. On one occasion, Barnes playfully led his police tails on a wild-goose chase through Harlem, making 100 stops at grocery stores, bars and neighborhood social clubs...
...founders, California State University Student Richard Stellar (his real last name, he insists), reports that orders are now coming in at the rate of 25 to 50 a day. The most sought after extraterrestrial neighborhood is the planet Vulcan, popularized by Star Trek's Mr. Spock. "We're only at the grass-roots beginning," proclaims Stellar...