neighborhood
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The stench of rotten eggs and burning debris fills the air in Boxtown, a predominantly Black neighborhood in Memphis.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Mastrangelo ultimately found a sublet: She will be spending $2,520 for a bedroom and private bath in a woman’s house in the tony neighborhood of Russian Hill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
For years, Richmond was known as one of London’s most charming residential enclaves—a peaceful riverside neighborhood filled with independent shops, cozy pubs, and leafy parks.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Johnnie Raines III, who serves on the local neighborhood council, knows some of the people Inside Safe brought indoors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
I figure out a three-mile loop around the neighborhood that I’ll run a second time on my own because I don't want to see Jonah on the nature trail, and Celia and I head out.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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For many, security cameras—along with wildlife cameras and even drones—are the only way of knowing what’s happening as affected neighborhoods and streets are cordoned off by authorities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Rents in the most popular neighborhoods can go for twice the average.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
We walk Sham Shui Po, once among the city’s densest working-class food neighborhoods.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
With its sunny elevator-music-scored opening of cheery park scenes and leafy residential neighborhoods, “Ice Cream Man” sets itself up, not unappealingly, like a Norman Rockwell painting asking to be vandalized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
As in many neighborhoods throughout the nation, North Enders were divided in their support of what now seemed to be the inevitable development.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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"Familiar Places"
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Cities and Towns
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Unit 20, Lessons 3–4
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