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...goods, all at prices slightly lower than the typical Harvard Square café. Clark said that they had seen a pretty steady flow of students since the start of the school year, especially since Head of the Charles, on top of the consistently “great” neighborhood contingent of moms and babies. He also gave special credit to Renee McLeod, the founder and namesake of Petsi Pies—“Petsi” was a childhood nickname—who brought her “grandmother’s crust-constructing knowledge and a fabulous...
...this are the relationships between Mexicans and Puerto Ricans—the latter are a greater political force, despite their inferior numbers—and West Side and South Side black politicians—the former are jealous of the latter’s influence. These intra-racial, inter-neighborhood power struggles stand in contrast to the inter-racial, intra-neighborhood clashes detailed in “There Goes the Neighborhood...
Wilson and Taub do an excellent job detailing the lives of the average residents of the four neighborhoods they examine. While one may have hoped for a timelier book with more cross-neighborhood, city-wide analysis, their method of zeroing in on individual residents and organizations has its strength: it makes the book more relevant to other cities, even as it misses some of what makes Chicago Chicago...
...There Goes the Neighborhood By William Julius Wilson and Richard P. Taub Knopf...
Capt. Evans: Only a small part of the Harvard campus falls on the Allston side. It is only that one game a year that seriously impacts the quality of life in the neighborhood of Allston. When you have a game that is supposed to be a football game and you have 25 students carted off of Ohiri Field for drinking too much alcohol, then I think that becomes a public safety issue for the city to deal with. Plus, public urination in full view of the residents who live nearby and to all of the spectators is not going...