Word: precinct
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...third sign of change would be a strong showing by current city councilor, and potential mayoral candidate, Ray Flynn. Flynn placed well in almost every precinct and topped the ticket in most wards. Following the repudiation of the Kevin Seven (candidates backed by Mayor Kevin H. White) in the preliminary, an improvement by Flynn over his strong vote would make him White's strongest challenger for the mayoral race...
...hunter: Detective William Majeski, 36, of Manhattan's Ninth Precinct. The hunted: Jack Henry Abbott, 37, ex-con (bank robbery and murder), protege of Norman Mailer, and overnight literary sensation with the publication of his prison memoirs, In the Belly of the Beast. They came into conflict, unseen opponents, shortly before dawn on July 18. Answering a call for police help in the East Village, Majeski arrived to find the body of an aspiring actor named Richard Adan lying in the street. Adan, 22, had been stabbed after an argument that began in the restaurant where he worked nights...
Assigned to other cases in the busy Ninth Precinct, Majeski doggedly tracked Abbott in his free time. He amassed scores of details, hoping to detect a pattern and to anticipate Abbott's moves. When the fugitive left New York City, he had $200 in his pocket. He took odd jobs to earn more money, hitchhiked when he could not afford a bus, and sometimes lived off old friends or people he met along the way, to whom he introduced himself as Jack Eastman...
...miles to the north, Bedford Stuyvesant does not resemble a war zone; most of its owner-occupied row houses, brownstones and churches are more or less intact. But high unemployment and a 60% dropout rate among black high school students make it a very dangerous place. One Bed-Stuy precinct, the 77th, has the highest murder rate in the city: 86 killings last year...
...concept is known as a Woonerf, a Dutch word that might loosely be translated as "protected precinct." Right now, the Woonerf is spreading through Western Europe, and the concept, in whole or in part, is in use in Boulder, Colo., and Seattle, Wash., and under consideration in Washington, B.C., Portland, Ore., and New York City. "My own feeling is that we should slow down traffic, not keep it out of residential streets," says Donald Appleyard, professor of urban design at the University of California at Berkeley and author of Livable Streets. "And the Woonerfhas proved a great success in European...