Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have lived in a racially-mixed neighborhood since 1973. By fourth grade, several of my closest friends were Black. Almost every week, I heard a racial slur in high school, with other students invariably joking about the appearance or the alleged "stupidity" of Blacks. When and if the headmaster found out about such incidents, he would give us a lecture about how this sort of slur was a denial of human dignity. But few of my classmates paid any attention...
...Alcorn says that the changes benefit everyone--big businesses and small, long-time residents and newcomers to the area. "The more life there is after 6 p.m. in a neighborhood, the better it is for the residents," she says...
...stores are vastly less noisy and vastly better run than the [Orson Welles] theater was," says one resident who asked to remain anonymous. "The new stores are very sensitive to the needs of the neighborhood," she says, "in terms of noise, cleanliness, hygeine, safety and fire laws...
...pace of the neighborhood's development, although partially dictated by the booming real estate market of the early 1980s, has also been spurred by the evolution of Cambridge itself...
Real estate experts say that the new condominium developments such as Bay Square will definitely have an impact on the neighborhood's composition, but they add that it is not certain whether the condo market is strong enough to make the developments a financial success...