Blocks of tidy houses fell prey to abandonment and rot.
Once filled with Irish, Italian and Quebecois families, the city's Old North End, with its blocks of tidy wood frame houses, has been transformed anew, this time with markets like the Somali-owned Community Halal grocery, a store that has made it possible to buy frozen Australian camel meat in Vermont.
Wide boulevards lined with block upon block of tidy flats painted lavender, mint and butterscotch await aspiring middle-class families.
That is why much of the generally politically liberal Brooklyn neighborhood has been seething about a letter sent 10 days ago notifying the local community board that, with New York City's go-ahead, a nonprofit agency would be opening a 170-bed shelter for men in a refitted 10-condominium building on a block of tidy three-family walk-ups.
As adults, friends typically meet up for happy hour, or a meal — tidy blocks of time, just long enough to catch up on major life events that have occurred since the last tidy block, weeks or months before.
Ranking atoms by their proton tally and then classing them by electron arrangements is, first of all, a way of tidying the building blocks of matter – arranging what Prof Steve Liddle calls "an artist's palette of all the elements from which everything is made".
A cluster of neat green fields, gleaming apartment blocks and tidy industrial zones, the town looks like a poster for all that Israel, in the last half-century, has carved out of these stony biblical lands.
RESIDENTS of East 94th Street, between Lexington and Third Avenues, never expected to see a private driveway among the row of tidy brownstones on the north side of their block.
"His name is Officer Bob". Truth or Consequences cropped up next as we pressed north, a Rio Grande-adjacent collection of tidy trailer homes, New Age boutiques, motel courts full of cars on blocks, antiques shops and natural hot springs.
His later images show the result of straightforward renovations and also illustrate how the city found creative ways to rebuild entire blocks with tidy town houses made affordable through tax breaks, innovative construction and low-cost mortgages.
On the cross streets perpendicular to National Avenue and the Neuse River are rows of tidy bungalows.
