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...decade ago, the 2.4-km stretch of Fifth Avenue that forms the western edge of the Park Slope neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, was the grim preserve of drug dealers, thugs and the demimonde. Not anymore. Thanks to the city's skyrocketing real estate market, some campaigning locals and a few pioneering investors, a once bleak thoroughfare of boarded-up shops and unsavory bodegas has been transformed into one of the hippest shopping and dining destinations in the Big Apple. Today, this section of Fifth Avenue, dubbed "Restaurant Row" by some, is luring visitors and locals alike with top-notch...
...serves a daring menu that includes tempura oysters and marrow bones; Convivium Osteria, tel: (1-718) 857 1833, marries Spanish, Italian and Portuguese dishes; and the Northern Italian Al di La, tel: (1-718) 783 4565, which is famous for its tripe appetizer, is the epitome of a cozy neighborhood restaurant. Do note that Al di La doesn't take reservations, so if you want to be sure of a table, get there early. With all the buzz surrounding Park Slope, there are hordes of like-minded sophisticates heading across the Brooklyn Bridge these days to revel in the area...
...decade ago, the 2.4-km stretch of Fifth Avenue that forms the western edge of the Park Slope neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, was the grim preserve of drug dealers, thugs and the demimonde. Not anymore. Thanks to the city's skyrocketing real estate market, some campaigning locals and a few pioneering investors, a once bleak thoroughfare of boarded-up shops and unsavory bodegas has been transformed into one of the hippest shopping and dining destinations in the Big Apple. Today, this section of Fifth Avenue, dubbed "Restaurant Row" by some, is luring visitors and locals alike with top-notch...
...course I'm going to go to the party," says Andre Johnson, who generally gets by passing out handbills in the once bustling neighborhood on the edge of downtown Detroit. "They've got free food and a big-screen TV. To hell with going downtown and trying to hustle. We have to hustle every day." And hustling around Ford Field will be difficult over the next week. The police have already started warning the homeless to stay away from the festivities, says Mike "Chicago" Jones, another homeless man. "If you don't have a valid ID on you, they...
...never left. He began as a Paris street sweeper, and ended up at a butcher shop. Since it went bankrupt seven years ago, he's become a kind of elder sage in Clichy-sous-Bois. He says there are many reasons why the young men in the neighborhood are disaffected and angry. Schools are often inadequate, jobs are scarce. But the big problem, Siby says, is housing. "These young guys need studio apartments. Instead they're in their twenties, still stuck in their parents' places with their little brothers and sisters," he says. "Make these guys pay rent; most...