Residents in one corner devised a wish list for amenities, both on and off the Boardwalk, like bike lanes, spray showers and dog runs, while in another corner, residents considered storm defenses, whether a sea wall, offshore breakwaters or rock jetties.
New Yorkers may be an opinionated lot who don't agree on much of anything, but yesterday in some of the city's busier corners, residents and workers consistently expressed a single sentiment about the nation's presidential quagmire: it, in a word, stinks.
In "Our Town," the first Grover's Corners resident we meet is Doc Gibbs, walking down Main Street, heading home after getting out of bed at 1 30 a.m. to deliver twins in Polish town.
There are lesser-known addresses: the street corner where residents are routinely stopped and frisked, the side of the road where a driver is detained for a minor violation.
Throughout the neighborhood -- in stores, banks, diners and on street corners -- residents tried to comfort one another and shared stories.
Mr. Hochberg predicted that many of Four Corners' new residents would be commuting to Manhattan, White Plains or Stamford.
With his wife Agnes' birthday right around the corner, Chicago resident Ernst Berlin was struck with the perfect idea for a gift: illustrations of their 8-month-old son, Jacob.
California's water crisis will require sweeping, long-term changes to its agricultural industry, they note, and not just crunch-time corner cutting from residents.
(@Boston_Police) 15 Apr 13 The police in Brookline, a town that borders Boston, said in an update on Twitter that they had evacuated an area near Washington Square and Coolidge Corner and urged residents to avoid the area.
In particular, we are creating a "Residents' Corner," which will appear at the back of each month's issue.
"Every Friday they'd dress up and they weren't going any farther than around the corner," said a resident named Bobby Washington.
