Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down an offer to hold the funeral in New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral. It would have been too grand for a former street kid. His last rites were held instead in a more modest setting, the church of St. Francis de Sales in Manhattan's Yorkville neighborhood, where he once served as an altar boy. His pallbearers were like a sampling of Cagney's many sides. They included Boxer Floyd Patterson, Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, Actor Ralph Bellamy and Director Milos Forman...
Clearly the actions of Goode and of the Police and Fire Commissioners lacked conscience, lacked a sense of right and wrong. That much was evident a year ago when an entire neighborhood burned down, leaving 11 dead and 250 homeless...
There were other good athletes around the neighborhood. Without Gooden, whose birthday came just a little too late for the 1975 Williamsport World Series, the Belmont Little Leaguers made it all the way to the finals before losing to Taiwan. But Gooden could be so critical of his teammates' mistakes that a visitor to the practice field might have taken him for the only competent player. One day nobody remembered to bring a ball. The team was awkwardly waiting when Gooden suddenly said, "I'm sorry for the way I act sometimes." After that he seemed not to notice...
...cases of leukemia, five of them fatal so far, were reported between 1969 and 1983 within six blocks of the Anderson house in what became known as Woburn's "leukemia cluster." The purported source of the problem: toxic industrial solvents in two wells that served the neighborhood. Who dumped the contaminants and whether the pollutants led to the deaths are the subjects of a lawsuit against W.R. Grace and Beatrice Foods being tried last week in U.S. district court in Boston...
...light-years. Many of the women and men who started the American garment business came from immigrant families who clustered in the tenements of the Lower East Side. That is much the same territory covered by today's East Village, but if the roots are still around the old neighborhood, the connection has been broken...