Word: neighborhood
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...mall, a small park in a residential neighborhood, is full of Harvard history. It is located at the site of the meeting house where John Harvard preached and on the spot where he built his house...
These tidbits of university lore are the stuff of Crimson Key tours, and seem a bit out of place in the sleepy, middle-class neighborhood that is home to the park...
Timmy Gillgun, who was playing with his young niece on the lone swing set and jungle gym in the park's corner, is a resident of a nearby housing project. He said he visits the park to get away from his neighborhood, but says the local community doesn't use the park very much...
Until about 10 years ago, this tiny firehouse served as a training ground for rookies and a house of punishment for white firemen who had fallen out of favor with their bosses. Most of those men took little interest in the neighborhood--with the exception of the few black fire fighters who were there--and treated the station house as a fortress. Residents viewed them as outsiders, and some youngsters vandalized the place with rocks and graffiti. But as white firemen slowly transferred out, a core of African Americans who chose to remain behind began leaving the station's steel...
...window. "We'll find who did that, and we'll work with that person," he says. "We can address them because most of us were raised in these projects." He pauses, then offers a comment that his colleagues would surely echo. "You know, you really have to love this neighborhood to stay here...