Dingy areas in and near the train stations have been replaced with lively stores selling food and drink, which are flanked by sidewalks with tables and chairs where people gather.
Others in the neighborhood who are unhappy with the Cedar Knolls rules are Frank P. and Teresa Lively, who sold their four-bedroom Bronxville home last year and moved into a four-bedroom Tudor revival in Cedar Knolls, for which they paid about half the price of the Bronxville house.
People who make their lively hoods by selling food on the streets have come together and established 'khau galli's (food lanes) in the metropolitian cities.
From their courtyards, multiple doors and passageways wind through former palaces leading to lively beer gardens, shops selling etched glassware, art galleries, a wine museum or a Turkish-style tearoom that also stocks seven varieties of Argentine maté.
Enough sachets are sold each year to reach from Hastings to Chicago 100 times over; and there is a lively trade in discontinued flavours on the Internet.
Prescription drugs are dirt cheap and freely available from open-front pharmacies, restaurants with names like Happy Pizza sell fist-size bags of weed for $5, and an unlikely community of West Africans runs a lively trade in heroin.
At every step he encounters something that inspires a poem — a family celebrating a wedding, a person selling food, a lively debate, and so on.
Why? Everything is within easy access - 300km of coast, the mountains and skiing, rural peace, lively village squares, local markets selling fabulous food, and urban razzmatazz.
Visit the lively Tekka Centre, a market selling everything from saris to sheep's heads.
Many of the inhabitants make their (small) living by cultivating nutmeg and cinnamon trees and selling their produce at the colourful and lively St George market.
