Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...YORK, N.Y. — In Red Hook, Brooklyn, where crumbling warehouses butt up against a shiny new Ikea, summer weekends mean huaraches and hipsters. Every Saturday and Sunday, a band of pan-Latin food carts flank the edges of the neighborhood soccer fields, serving dishes like the Mexican cornmeal huarache, and bringing with them a crowd eager for gustatory experience...
...choice, owing largely to the fact that in humid Southern climates, corn grew better than wheat (which was prone to fungal infections). Barbecue allowed an abundance of food to be cooked at once and quickly became the go-to menu item for large gatherings like church festivals and neighborhood picnics...
...being felt in thousands of ways across the state. Dressed in a coral polo shirt and khaki shorts, Teeda Sokhoeun sits on a swivel chair next to a tiny couch in the two-bedroom apartment she shares with her mom and five siblings in a rough working-class neighborhood of Long Beach. The port city south of Los Angeles is a polyglot of Cambodians, Latinos, African Americans and Anglos. Incomes in this inner city neighborhood are low, violence sometimes high, but Long Beach boasts one of the best urban school districts in the nation and Sokhoeun...
...latest incident took place on June 21, when a 22-year-old man was shot in the leg while getting out of his car in the same North Cambridge neighborhood where Ellcock was shot. While no suspects have yet been apprehended in the case, the victim was arrested for illegally possessing his own gun, said Cambridge Police Spokesman Frank T. Pasquarello...
Some silly projects are sure to be built. In Long Beach, Calif., local and state officials bucked the orders from Washington. The city council unanimously approved a $620,000 skateboard-park renovation in a rough neighborhood, half-pipe and all. "It's an incredible opportunity," says local councilman Robert Garcia. "This is near and dear to my heart," noted California Senator Barbara Boxer on the Senate floor. Biden's staff has battled to kill the project behind the scenes, and the outcome is still unclear. Meanwhile, on other requests, Republicans quibbled with Biden's definition of prudent. Some $3.4 million...