Lewis speaks in what might be called High Plains-Cockney-Bob Marley, an accent rounded off by the influence of the high-rent precincts he now inhabits in Hertfordshire and Miami, to say nothing of the Concorde waiting lounge.
The Whitney has several sources of income: from its museum shops, for example, its travelling exhibitions, its membership programmes, its partnerships with corporations, and even the renting of its hallowed precincts for parties.
The rest is from donations, rents from properties in the Precincts, and from the hotel, shop and conference centre.
"You can special-zone something," Mr. Cohen added, "but if people who are going to remain can't afford to pay the rents, how can you keep them there?" The desire to maintain unified business precincts is not merely a matter of nostalgia.
As rents have shot up across the city, especially in Lower Manhattan, poor immigrants, mainly from the rural precincts of Fujian, have streamed into the neighborhood, many of them owing tens of thousands of dollars to the smugglers who brought them here.
It is not, as one might expect, in a prestigious precinct of high-rent Midtown, but in Brooklyn, among century-old factories in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Who chooses the precincts?
All precincts have reported.
What about the "missing" precincts?
He usually dwells in quieter precincts.
The other six precincts conducted caucuses.
