located on Morgan Avenue. The sidewalks and alleys were kept clean. 2. Wilson Avenue consisted of organic store‚ diner‚ bar‚ pizza shop‚ sushi restaurant‚ traditional American restaurants‚ hookah shop‚ barber shop‚ salon‚ liquor store‚ traditional New York City bodega. There were old residential buildings at the end of the street. 3. Jefferson Street and Wilson Avenue consisted of renovated townhouses and two newly built apartments. The streets were well kept‚ there were trimmed sidewalk gardens
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in high-poverty neighbourhoods. A randomized mobility experiment in which a subset of low-income minority families living in public housing in high-poverty neighborhoods were given vouchers to move to low-poverty neighbourhoods were used to evaluate 1 policy approach for improving children’s educational outcomes. Four hundred twenty-five New York City children were seen 2 1/2 and 5 years following relocation (mean age=14.64 years‚ SD=3.21 years). Analyzes examining program effects on 5-year educational
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February 23‚ 2009 Cultural Diversity within the Neighborhood Sitting in a dark theatre‚ an audience begins to rustle in their seats with excitement‚ anxiously awaiting the start of the show. The lights dim and the anticipation are diminished as the lights come up‚ the set of a street side unveils‚ and the beat begins. In one instant‚ the audience is transported from a simple theatre to the lively street-side of the neighborhood of Washington Heights‚ New York. This production is the 2008 Tony-winning
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Racial Differences in Neighborhood Quality Over the Life Course: The Contributions of Residential Mobility‚ Migration‚ and In Situ Change” Introduction The growing interests in life course theories have drawn attention to how lives are linked over time and space. Life course approach to neighborhood attainment highlights the interrelated and dynamic processes that individuals obtain their locations as they age. Studies suggest that people experience age-graded neighborhood change (Rand and Hirschl
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Thieves‚ Thugs‚ and Neighborhood Poverty David Bjerk Robert Day School of Economics and Finance Claremont McKenna College 500 East Ninth Street‚ Claremont CA 91711 Ph: 909-607-4471 david.bjerk@cmc.edu April 25‚ 2010 Abstract This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty. The model shows that even under relatively minimal assumptions‚ a connection between individual poverty and both property and violent crimes will arise
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For years neighborhoods in America have been providing individuals with a sense of security and intimacy. Diversity in many neighborhoods gave America a more international feeling to it and is what makes the country unique today. However‚ social and physical declines of neighborhoods have been evident in today’s society. Not only have the once attractive living environments been deteriorating‚ but the people in them have been changing immensely. The loss of individuality in America has many people
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Opinion Piece Low-income Neighborhoods and Crime Michael Abdullahi 0770724 Wednesday‚ November 19th 2014 Professor: Jennifer Long SOAN 2290 On February 13th 2013 the family of Jarvis Montaque was in great despair. The family who lived in Jamestown Crescent‚ a local public housing projects were notified that the 15-year-old boy‚ had been shot on his own doorstep. The boy was not part of any gangs‚ rather an unfortunate casualty of local gang warfare. The Toronto
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Reckless Driving In My Neighborhood Nancy S. Young COMM105 Gayla Nelson March 13‚ 2006 Reckless Driving in My Neighborhood Our neighborhood is a place where we should be comfortable letting our children play‚ without having to worry about them getting hit by a reckless driver. If our children are in their on yard‚ there is still a chance for a speedy driver to loose control and hit one of them. On the street that I live on there is a great deal of children‚ of all ages‚ that
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Neighborhood Watch Research Study As we evaluate the effectiveness of the neighborhood watch program in the City of Bird Island‚ Minnesota we will try to persuade the mayor of Bird Island of how effective the neighborhood watch program has been thus far. Over the past few years the crime statistics have shown that the crime rate has continued to rise throughout the state of Minnesota. However‚ with the staggering numbers constantly growing‚ Bird Island has kept low numbers of crime statically that
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imaginative types of mass travel. High rises came to check urban horizons‚ and new electric lighting frameworks energized nightlife. Neighborhoods partitioned along class and ethnic lines‚ with the regular workers possessing swarmed‚ terribly constructed apartments. Settlers grew new ethnic societies in their neighborhoods‚ while bigotry took after African American transients from the rural country side to the city. Urban neighborhoods provided immigrants and African American with a place which felt like
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