Word: neighborhood
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Carman said his organization will soon send out flyers and go door-to-door in the neighborhood to discuss ways to mitigate the rat infestation...
Amidst wrangling over potential construction slowdowns at last week’s Allston-Brighton neighborhood task force meeting, one resident asked the group to turn its attention to a specific concern: a local rat infestation that some residents say has resulted from excavation work at Harvard’s planned Allston Science Complex...
...least going to tell us about all the rats that have come out of the hole and since infested our neighborhood?” asked Jake Carman, founder of the Allston Brighton Neighborhood Assembly, to boisterous applause. “Can you all have the Harvard Corporation and the President come down next time so we can actually find out what’s going on in our neighborhood...
...Paris's bid to revitalize the city's arts scene. Seeing an opportunity for what 104 Community Outreach Coordinator Matthias Tronqual calls "a project at once artistic, economic and social," the city built the complex in a former municipal funeral parlor at the center of the troubled Flandres neighborhood - a melting pot of 30 different ethnic groups, with a 20% unemployment rate and over 60% social housing. After hearing about 104 from a French photographer friend, Tricky - the man behind the 1990s music revolution known as trip-hop - decided to come to Flandres in January and launch a project...
...lyrics, Ndiaye, who immigrated to France from Senegal at age 16, evokes the violent rivalry between the youth of his housing project - or cité - and a neighboring one, the temptations of dealing drugs and easy money, and all that's obscured when these things come to define his neighborhood. "There is a lot of good in the cités, but you have to look for it," he says. "There are people who are in the shadows, who the town hall, the government, have forgotten and left behind...