The police cited "health and public safety concerns" as their reasons for moving to break up the downtown tent settlement, and indeed, such issues needed to be addressed: an existing rat problem around City Hall was exacerbated by sloppy food storage, and officials claimed the encampment was a haven for drug and alcohol abuse.
City officials say they have three major encampments near downtown and smaller settlements along two highways.
Although the New Federal Theatre, founded by Woodie King, Jr., at the Henry Street Settlement, farther downtown, presented a more diverse selection of plays, from 1970 on — treating writers ranging from Tennessee Williams to Ntozake Shange with equal respect — it is the Negro Ensemble Company that theatregoers recognize as New York's ur-black dramatic voice.
Although the New Federal Theatre, founded by Woodie King, Jr., at the Henry Street Settlement, farther downtown, presented a more diverse selection of plays, from 1970 on treating writers ranging from Tennessee Williams to Ntozake Shange with equal respect it is the Negro Ensemble Company that theatregoers recognize as New York's ur-black dramatic voice.
Kampung Kemasan is an heritage area that still serves as a settlement in downtown Gresik, East Java.
In downtown Bedford, the first settlement since White Plains, the highway overlaps with NY 172 for a few blocks, then intersects NY 121 at its southern terminus.
Wilpon, speaking outside the federal courthouse in downtown Manhattan after Monday's settlement was announced, promised to "bring the Mets back to the prominence our fans deserve and the city of New York deserves".
The city of Los Angeles is composed of a series of widely dispersed settlements loosely connected to downtown.
A metropolitan area is a zone of contiguous settlement — the expanse from the heart of downtown to where open land begins.
Earlier today, as Google co-founder Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt were holding forth before a dozen or so reporters in their New York City offices, a judge downtown was postponing a hearing on the Google Book settlement until November 9 to give Google and the Author's Guild more time to change parts of the settlement.
