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...really need another stereotyped, cliché-ridden article about the "depiavity" of the suburbs? Your article perpetuates the myth of suburbia with its materialism, wife swapping, country clubs and veiled racism as subjects. Suburbanites are just like everyone else, just people, so why make the word suburb a dirty one, like capitalism or success, which are just as offensive...
...himself, Young chose a colonial home in New Rochelle, a New York suburb. But as his commuter train rolled through Harlem each workday, Young was troubled. "Should I get off this train this morning and stand on 125th Street cussing Whitey to show I am tough?" he once mused. "Or should I go downtown and talk to an executive of General Motors about 2,000 jobs for unemployed blacks?" Young, a civil rights leader who was interested above all in results, remained on the train...
Karsten Prager of TIME'S New York bureau lived until recently in the Riverdale section of The Bronx, a part of the city that is much like a suburb. In East Orange, he found a suburb that is much like a city...
...East Orange has been the first step out from the city, from Newark or New York, a reach for a suburban hinterland of open space and green grass and fresh air. Once it was that for wealthy whites. Long before World War II, it was a gracious, self-contained suburb with some mansions that verged on the palatial, imposing apartment buildings, a Baptist seminary and Upsala College...
Like clergymen of other faiths, rabbis have been known to have differences with their congregations, but U.S. Jews generally conduct their debates in private. Recently, however, two Reform rabbis, one in an established Manhattan synagogue, the other in a posh Long Island suburb, clashed publicly with their congregants. Their stories...