Each precinct is like a gated community.
Joseph Colicchio's novel 'High Gate Health and Beauty," is a murder mystery: a strangler kills a dog, and then a man, in a gritty precinct of Jersey City called High Gate, a white working-class neighborhood where ones of race and especially class are firmly enforced.
OUT OF THE GATE In many elections, the first precincts reporting vote totals do not mean much, because the totals bear little relation to the ultimate outcome.
Within the 12th-century precinct wall, several monastic buildings are preserved, including an abbey gate and Norman bell tower.
A small palace lay to the south of the main building, and a further suite of rooms for the king was installed in the castellated gate building on the east side of the precinct.
The head was dug up from the base of the Temenos (or courtyard) Gate, the arched entryway leading into the sacred precinct of the Qasr al-Bint, Petra's most important temple, situated at the convergence of the main caravan roads leading to the city's center.
In East Anglia, St. Ethelbert's Gate is one of the two main entrances to the precinct of Norwich Cathedral.
We'd say, 'Hey, how many yo-mice did we have in the precinct this month?' or 'Hey, Lloyd, did you get any leads on that yo-mice on Gates Avenue?' " Lloyd's wife, Geraldine, appeared from inside to give Derrick a hug.
The priory buildings stood at the centre of a walled precinct arranged in two courts, inner and outer with gatehouses at the entrances to both; the remains of the great gate of the inner court are extant but the outer gatehouse no longer survives.
Somehow, in the recent effort by neighborhood groups, a local nightclub owner, Community Board 6, the 13th Police Precinct and the Department of Transportation to solve once and for all the traffic problems that have long bedeviled the neighborhood, gate-crashing was overlooked.
