Word: neighborhooding
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...Newark’s worst public housing projects, a massive, mud-colored, 300-unit building that was demolished in December 2007. Despite the fact that he is staking his political career on turning around the fortunes of a troubled city, Booker himself hails from a predominantly white, neighborhood in suburban Bergen County. His pedigree is glaringly elite: after graduating from Stanford, where he also took a master’s degree, Booker attended Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship before attending Yale for law school. In 2002, Booker made his first run for mayor of Newark, losing narrowly to a veteran...
...REBUILDING A NEIGHBORHOOD...
...During the late 1990s, Harvard began a neighborhood planning process, at the request of Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, to coordinate the University’s plans for its property in Allston with the community’s needs. In 2004, the series of meetings resulted in the North Allston Neighborhood Strategic Plan, a document that focused on maintaining housing affordability, creating open space, and ensuring greater economic opportunity in the neighborhood...
...lived in the neighborhood, our quality of life has not changed in two years,” said Harvard Allston Task Force member Harry Mattison. “There are vacant Harvard properties all over the neighborhood and there’s a huge construction project going on which has had its rocky moments...
...store and have owned it ever since, won’t be around for its centennial. While the rise of online retailers and rising real-estate prices have forced many booksellers out of the Square, the Harvard Book Store has maintained a strong presence in this ever-changing neighborhood, thanks in no small part to the Kramer family. Frank Kramer, who has operated the book store for the last 46 years, said what matters most is that the new owner has an interest in literature and the local community. “I’m looking for a buyer...