In the north London neighborhood of Haringey, some young people are using their energy to do positive things.

VOA: special.2011.08.13

While there, he volunteered as a music teacher at a youth center in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston.

VOA: special.2010.11.04

The neighborhood of Anacostia is one of the poorest and most dangerous in Washington.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

The family was poor and lived in a neighborhood of crime and violence.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

The Nuyorican Poets Caf is in the Loisaida neighborhood of Manhattan.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

It's an old,crowded neighborhood of modest stucco homes and tiny shops that stretches for about 30 blocks along Eighth Street.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

Orunbai Suleimanov is a Kyrgyz who volunteered to patrol the ethnically-mixed Anoshin neighborhood of Osh.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

The Israeli Prime Minister's office is not commenting on the plans for expansion, but a statement on Tuesday said construction in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo is nothing new.

VOA: standard.2009.11.18

But he says being in a wheelchair is still often a problem in his neighborhood in the Bronx area of the city.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

He tells the story of a boy in an immigrant neighborhood that connects two cultures, Mexican and American.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

One family from Ohio has a very different kind of Fourth of July tradition in their neighborhood.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

He wanted the music to sound like the streets of Chagall's neighborhood in Russia.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

In the same beachside neighborhood, a truck and tangled mass of corrugated steel are wedged against the house of Fai Faaita.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

It said Gilo is an integral part of Jerusalem and that building in the neighborhood has continued unabated for decades.

VOA: standard.2009.11.18

Communist leader Fidel Castro's overthrow of the Cuban government in 1959 triggered a huge exodus of Cubans to the west Miami neighborhood.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

About 40 percent of households in this mostly African-American, low-to-middle income neighborhood don't have access to a car.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

"Hopefully,doing this and people seeing this, it'll change things, cause this neighborhood needs a lot of help."

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

The neighborhood,he says, is inhabited by the Turkmen minority, but representatives of their community are not saying who they think was behind the explosion.

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

But there has been a wave of religious demonstrations since a parking lot opened on the Sabbath near an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood several months ago.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14