The neighborhood is made up of one primary school, one junior high school, two Catholic churches, three parks and two farms.
This is why the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships teamed up with the Department of Education and the Corporation for National and Community Service to host a landmark White House Convening on the Role of Community-Based Organizations in Turning Around Low-Performing Schools.
Son of Polish immigrants, he grew up in a rough neighborhood north of the Loop.
Josh grew up in a rough neighborhood of Oakland, Calif.
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Leaders of ASEAN may finally be waking up to what is happening in the neighborhood: the prospect of a failed state.
On Friday, Mr. Skakel's current lawyers questioned Marjorie Walker Hauer, who grew up in the Belle Haven neighborhood of Greenwich where the Skakel and Moxley families lived during the 1970s.
Arafat was angered by a deal between Israel and a group of renegade Jewish settlers who last week set up housekeeping in the predominately Arab Ras al-Amoud neighborhood of east Jerusalem in defiance of the Israeli government.
We grew up in a working-class neighborhood outside of Los Angeles in the shadows of polluted landfills and toxic dumps.
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They hired a forklift to make sure they'd get good views by going up to the peak of the neighborhood's limit.
Even if you don't at first remember that the man is a baker, perhaps you get some vague sense of breadiness about him, or see some association between his face and a big white hat, or maybe you conjure up a memory of your own neighborhood bakery.
She spoke about the transformation of the neighborhood that began with a few neighbors getting together to clean up their blocks and enlisting many neighbors and finally the help of the city.
Authorities believed they had trapped the car in a densely populated residential neighborhood of Watertown, but the brothers put up a fight.
Oil man Trevor Rees-Jones, who netted billions drilling in the Barnett Shale, has been buying up several properties in the University Park neighborhood of Dallas, according to public records.
Here's how the wine selection in my neighborhood package store stacked up 20 years ago: Most of the shelf space was devoted to jug wines (Riunite, Carlo Rossi, Almaden, etc.).
Ms. Malcorra had worked hard to move herself from the working class neighborhood where she grew up, graduating among the top of her class (and as the only woman) of electrical engineers at the University of Rosario, followed by a successful 15-year career at IBM.
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Pastor Jean Sainvil told CNN he rounded up 20 children from a camp in the Delmas neighborhood of the capital.
Two summers ago, a truckload of Beijing municipal workers turned up in my neighborhood and began unspooling heavy-duty black power lines, which they attached to our houses, in preparation for a campaign to replace coal-burning furnaces with electric radiators.
"We were sort of embarrassed to hold our heads up in the neighborhood, " Amy says.
In other words carbon becomes a loss leader to energy, much like the way we at times intend to make a quick trip to our neighborhood grocery store to pick a bottle of milk, but end up buying a few other things.
He loved Hawaii, swimming in the ocean, playing basketball - sounds like my kind of guy. (Laughter.) His siblings remember him as the big brother -- quiet but strong -- who took care of them, stood up for them in the neighborhood, and who would treat them to ice cream.
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The neighborhood was flooded when the levee cracked open, pouring up to 10 feet of water into the area.
And three years ago, after quietly buying up an adjoining neighborhood and razing the houses, Augusta National moved much of the parking there and built an astonishing, 18-acre (7-hectare) practice facility on the former parking site near the clubhouse.
The road petered out in an area with little valleys, ridges, hills, and peaks, but it was not the contours of the land that created the uneven surface but, rather, the layers of things that had been thrown away: everything that the consumerist city had used up and expelled so that it could immediately enjoy the pleasure of handling new things had ended up in this unprepossessing neighborhood.
As with many serious offenses, the people of Binghampton -- the rough and dangerous neighborhood where Penny grew up -- have collective amnesia when it comes to specific charges: something about a high-speed chase, his car might've struck an officer, he might've resisted arrest -- you know, ordinary stuff.
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He thinks of a blind girl who lived in his neighborhood when he was growing up: Audra Stevenson.
What the neighborhood lacked in luxuries it made up for in junk shops, where broken old paintings of no artistic merit could be bought for mere shillings.
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For instance, given that the Obama administration views Ramat Shlomo as the equivalent of Eli and E-1, Israel should build up the neighborhood in Eli that was home to fallen IDF commanders Majors Roi Klein and Eliraz Peretz and implement its construction plans for E-1.
Gonzalo Rubalcaba's neighborhood in the heart of Havana was filled with music and culture when he was growing up.
Like a once-quiet neighborhood cut up by an expressway and laced with off ramps, northeastern forests are changing because of the pipelines crisscrossing them amid the region's gas drilling boom, experts say.
Within two weeks, officials from both organizations came to his company's 100, 000-square-foot headquarters in Brooklyn's East New York neighborhood to investigate, but he knows of no further attempt by either agency to follow up.
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