Then there are the rodents that leap through the garbage and dart in and out of the boarded apartment buildings.
But boards come in all shapes and sizes, be they school boards, neighbourhood watch boards, apartment boards, non-profit boards, employee committees.
Hotels, lift-owners, airlines, tourist boards and apartment owners have all come to the same conclusion: mountain biking is the perfect summer compliment to winter ski seasons.
Ms. Rivers has maintained support among her neighbors despite what might be considered a disqualifier on other boards: her apartment is on the market.
The board tabulated apartments as lost to high-rent deregulation only if they were listed in records of the State Division of Housing and Community Renewal, which administers the rent-stabilization program.
We drove into Port of Albany, through a neighborhood with shuttered storefronts and boarded-up apartment buildings, to Scarano Boat Building, where Rick Scarano showed us around.
In the middle of North Lawndale, now one of America's most shamefully impoverished neighborhoods, there's a boarded-up apartment building where Golda Meir, the former Israeli prime minister, lived briefly when she was a young librarian.
In recent years, Mr. Saft said, his organization has "strongly recommended" that co-op and condo boards require apartment owners to carry casualty and liability insurance, something that is not required by all banks that provide mortgages in the city.
The new station in the Bronx, called BP Connect, opened in the summer on Washington Avenue, a few blocks from Yankee Stadium, in a rebuilding neighborhood, across from boarded-up apartment buildings and a garage promising "flat fixed".
Mr. De Rienzo began inquiring about the buildings after he noticed several boarded-up apartments while walking on his old block.
