Visible from the street, large painted letters across the front of the bleachers proclaim Greenfield "a fine residential community".
"He said he's going to target the Jewish community," Mr. Greenfield said as Mr. Hynes stood next to him, barely blinking.
Leading a team of undergraduates and graduate students -- Diversity Champions, as they are known on throughout the ASU community –- Greenfield is positioning Alcorn at the forefront of honest discussion on tolerance and bridge building, all within the context of improving historically black colleges and universities.
Now in his 50s, he is the executive director of the Greenfield Organization, a community center on Greenfield Avenue that does everything from sponsoring food drives to providing tax assistance.
Even with the backing of a local bank and economic development corporation, organizers of a proposed community store in Greenfield, Mass., returned $60,000 to investors this year after concluding that it would be difficult to raise the remaining money needed.
Communities that back greenfield development in their area could be compensated by building new parks and recreation areas, according to the report.
At the community center, one of Mr. Greenfield's supporters, Sal Cali, 46, said: "Brooklyn is multicultural.
Interviewed by telephone last week, Mr. Alves, 52, said the vote in Greenfield, which was hotly contested, continues to divide the community.
The Chicago and North Western Railway reached the community in 1880 and called its station North Greenfield; in 1887 the community took the same name.
