"It just seems like more of an upper-class area than what I moved from," she said.
The violence was concentrated in Mansour, an upper-class area where residents had recently begun to emerge from house-bound hibernation as a result of decreased violence.
"He's not really well known in the minority community," said Mr. Rodriguez, who is 16, "because the church only explained him to the upper-class areas".
There's a nationwide effort to spread out low-income housing so that it coexists in middle- and upper-class areas.
"The biggest drop-off for the president has been in these more suburban, upper-class areas," said Jim Lee, the president of Susquehanna Polling and Research, a Republican firm.
Virgin Atlantic, in addition to its slick new Kennedy Airport lounge, which boasts Warhol prints on the walls and a bar that could be transplanted to SoHo, will add fully reclinable seats to all its upper-class areas.
Baby boomers can afford the costs in upper-class areas because they are "downsizing," while the affluent, often dual-income, members of Generation X and Y are willing to pay more for housing within the city limits in order to live in "hipper" communities.
Thirty years ago this would have been an upper working class area, and a factory foreman would probably have lived here - it's a 1930s terrace.
Growing up in a liberal, upper middle class area instilled some unwavering beliefs in me.
I've not seen a boxing team in an exclusive upper middle class area, no.
The Capital Access Report co-authored by Goode and his aide during his freshmen year in city council, showed that in 1998, about 90percentt of small business lending done in middle and upper class income areas and over 90percentt of the loan dollars went to areas with a black population of less than twenty percent.
