We know that gathering places like dining areas and libraries draw members of the community together.
With his wife, the former Carla Furstenberg, Mr. Cohen was a part owner of Politics & Prose, the independent bookstore in Northwest Washington that she operated for nearly three decades with Barbara Meade and that became a gathering place for literary events.
"This provides that community gathering place".
But the promise of that glorified gathering place on her glittering new cable network, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, has fallen short of expectations.
He lived with his wife (and fellow journalist) Ding Yilan and their five children in a comfortable courtyard house that was a gathering place for artists and aesthetes.
At a loft that was a gathering place for black writers and activists, Salahuddin met a Korean War veteran he admired, who told him, "I'm not talking to you anymore until you read the Koran".
Eric Lemonides, a co-owner of Almond, a Bridgehampton restaurant that is a gathering place for gay men on Friday nights, sees the lack of gay bars as a sign of successful social integration.
From 1954 to 1961, Helen Gee, photography maven and skilled photographic retoucher, ran the Limelight, a coffeehouse at 91 Seventh Avenue in Greenwich Village that became a gathering place for writers, editors and photographers.
Established in 2005, Busboys and Poets is a community restaurant and bookstore that is a gathering place -- a community resource for artists, activists, writers, thinkers and dreamers.
"When a McDonald's is becoming your primary gathering place, that might suggest that there's a shortage of appropriate public spaces that allow for people to exercise their First Amendment rights," Bernardo said.
