Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Emergency Financial Control Board, an agency that oversees Yonkers' shaky finances. Cuomo further muddied the waters by observing that Yonkers officials might be able to persuade Judge Sand to modify his ruling. Grandstanding politicians in the Yonkers stalemate could find a guiding example of courageous leadership in Boston. Neighborhood resistance to the integration of public projects in Irish South Boston is at least as intense as that in the New York suburb. Mayor Ray Flynn, who lives in Southie, began his political career in the mid-1970s as a community leader in the disastrous fight against school desegregation...
...basement an American canoeist who has converted a small coal bin into a stagnant river crouches on one knee and endlessly paddles nowhere. His sloshing is a nighttime sound of the neighborhood. A roller skate wedged beneath his forward foot simulates the bobbing boat. Old mirrors of every shape, rescued from dressers and garage sales, are suspended all around. In each of them, he checks his technique against the home movies he has taken of the Rumanians and Swedes. This is the Olympian getting ready...
...story, pale blue home, which they bought when Leonard was eight. The house stands in a neat row of similar dwellings, each with a small square-columned portico and patch of front yard. After a 1960 federal order desegregated William Frantz Public School, which Bianca now attends, the neighborhood changed from all white to nearly all black. Today only 26 of New Orleans' 126 public schools are racially integrated. Bianca's school is virtually all black. When told about the bitter struggles to integrate Frantz, Bianca says, "That's history." She brushes away further discussion...
...There are so many places of culture closing now," he said. "There was the Inman Square Men's Bar, which was really important for jazz and blues. But they had to try to relocate, and there was not much neighborhood support, so now they're gone. Not many of the original jazz areas are still around...
Especially a mystery, one would think, to Michael. Stelian was the only other Greek boy who had grown up in the same circumstances. Michael had no Greek kids in the neighborhood, peers or rivals, to compare himself with -- as Mario Cuomo, for instance, had a swarm of Italian friends to gauge himself against. In Michael's formative early years, there was not only monos mou but also oi thyo mas ("we two"). When Stelian, the soft one, went under, Michael, the quicker one, must have made something of that. But we cannot know what -- he is quietly respectful...