Across the New Mexico line, residents eyed the fire bearing down on them warily.
Just across the Queens-Nassau County line, residents in Great Neck do not have as great a mosquito problem.
Worst hit are the sick, the elderly and children.The woes of front-line residents have mounted as the authorities who are supposed to succour them vanish.
Two stops north on the Red line, residents of Fort Totten, a working- and middle-class neighborhood on the Maryland border, were thrilled when a developer swept in with talk of condominiums and rentals, a supermarket, shops and restaurants.
Further north, about two miles outside the hurricane watch zone near the Miami-Dade Broward County line, residents and business owners were also gearing up for Matthew's wrath.
This kind of development will push out the below-poverty-line residents from their weekly motel rooms to make space for specialty candle shops and more brunch spots.
And the turbines could topple in an earthquake, since they're situated in sedentary soil directly on the Garlock fault line, residents say.
Here's the bottom line: Residents are right to worry about the size and location of second units being built in areas zoned for single-family homes.
Jesse Marquez, executive director of Coalition for a Safe Environment, said the new emphasis on collecting data from fence-line residents in Wilmington differs from past campaigns, which have relied on community meetings, door-to-door visits and fliers.
In just one line, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard producer Masachika Kawata has explained why his new game leaves behind so many of the monstrous mutations and giant bugs of previous entries in Capcom's survival horror series.
