Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though few residents today complain about Harvard's latest incursion into their neighborhood, resentment still lingers...
Manuel Uribe, a small property-owner who sold the building to Harvard two years ago, said the buildings will improve the Banks St. area. "This development will bring stability to the neighborhood, and it will determine what the area will look like for the next 100 years," he said...
...project was held up nearly two years because residents of the surrounding neighborhood protested Harvard's acquisition of 8-10 Mt. Auburn St. At first, the University proposed tearing down a 93-year old Victorian building, but modified the scale of its plans in the face of community opposition...
Diane Giacalone, the Ozone Park girl who moved across the river to Manhattan, is not remembered so clearly. The only daughter of a civil engineer, she grew up middle class; she is backyard-wise, not streetwise. Giacalone was an anomaly in the neighborhood; she wanted to go to college. At New York University she protested against the Viet Nam War, but was otherwise apolitical. Even though she opted for law school at N.Y.U., she was never sure that she wanted to be a lawyer. Later, while in Washington with the Justice Department's tax division, she began to do some...
...Diane Giacalone that matters. It's the system. If I vanish, another prosecutor will be ready to try the case within a month. And let's not kid ourselves about who has more resources." She says the fact that she is Italian and from the same neighborhood as Gotti has nothing to do with her zeal to prosecute the Mafia. "It has never occurred...