Because Yesler Way marks the boundary between two different plats, the street grid north of Yesler does not line up with the neighborhood's other streets ( nor with the compass ), so the northern " border " of the district zigzags along numerous streets.

The neighborhood is named for its 19th-century harvesting of oysters and other seafood products from the Kill Van Kull, which forms the neighborhood's northern border ( Elm Park and Port Ivory lie to the east and west, respectively, while Graniteville is to the south ).

Dry Dock Park, located at the northern end ( 11th and Avenue D ): A small park with a public pool — named for the neighborhood's former tradition of ship repair.

The neighborhood's predominant land area was annexed to the city of Pittsburgh in two pieces, the southern half in 1906 and the northern half in 1921 after being an independent borough for a short time.

Many small factories once dotted the neighborhood's western shoreline, but most of these are no longer in operation.

The neighborhood's primary thoroughfare is Fordham Road ; its main rapid transit line is the IND Concourse Line, operating under the Grand Concourse, with the IRT Jerome Avenue Line on its western border.

Two large city parks — Silver Lake Park and Clove Lakes Park — form the eastern and western boundaries, respectively, of Sunnyside, which is named for a boarding house that was established there in 1889 ; the vicinity had previously been known as Clovenia, owing to its location in what was then referred to as the Clove Valley, whose name survives in Clove Road, which runs from West Brighton to Grasmere, and is one of the neighborhood's principal thoroughfares.

The neighborhood's western border is an extension of Rock Creek Park called Glover-Archbold Park ( named after Charles Carroll Glover and Anne Mills Archbold, who each donated part of the land ).

It is technically located in East Denver which begins immediately east of Broadway, the neighborhood's western boundary.

Between 1904 and 1919, Denver Mayor Robert Speer completed his ambitious plan for the Civic Center area, adding many civic institutions and a neoclassic park to the north of the neighborhood, and placing a leafy concrete urban canyon around Cherry Creek, creating Speer Boulevard, the neighborhood's western and southern border.

Many of the neighborhood's streets are narrow and some curve at odd angles.

Some are people who played a prominent role in the story ( Mr. Lisbon and an aging, substance-addicted Trip Fontaine ) and some are merely onlookers, such as an old drunk who lived across from the Lisbons and a teacher who was the neighborhood's sole Communist.

The neighborhood's residential areas are an area on a hill known as Hall Heights, and a trailer park near Scotts Creek known as the Bridge Street Trailer Park.

Its inhabitants, two alien observers, are watching the riot on Maple Street while using a device to manipulate the neighborhood's power.

The neighborhood's ZIP codes are 10025, 10026, and 10027.

The neighborhood's north-south arterials are ( from west to east ) Roosevelt Way NE ( southbound )), 11th Avenue NE ( northbound ), Brooklyn Avenue NE, University Way NE, and 15th Avenue NE.

The neighborhood's main thoroughfares are Fremont and Aurora Avenues N. ( north-and southbound ) and N. 46th, 45th, 36th, and 34th Streets ( east-and westbound ).

The neighborhood's main thoroughfares running north-south are Seaview, 32nd, 24th, Leary, 15th, and 8th Avenues N. W.

Tottenville has been the southern terminus of the Staten Island Railway since the railway was extended to the neighborhood on June 2, 1860, and today the three southernmost stations along this railway are generally regarded as part of the community ; besides the terminal station which bears the neighborhood's name ( which is the southernmost railway station in New York state ), the other two are Atlantic ( named after the defunct Atlantic Terra Cotta Co. factory nearby ) and Nassau ( referring to Nassau Smelting and Refining, the original name of the factory later taken over by Lucent Technologies ).

Though the neighborhood's status as a wealthy neighborhood was relatively short-lived, myths of a dramatic white flight in the 1880s are not entirely true.

As far as details on the ancient builders, archeologists are in disagreement over the character of the neighborhood's builders.

The neighborhood's main thoroughfares are Boyer Avenue E. ( northwest-and southeast-bound ), 24th Avenue E. and Lake Washington and Montlake Boulevards E. ( north-and southbound ), and E. Lake Washington Boulevard ( east-and westbound ).

The neighborhood's limits are: the waters of the Guanabara Bay, the neighborhood of Piratininga ( at the Viração Hill ) and the neighborhoods of Jurujuba and São Francisco ( contiguous boundary ).

These industrial facilities are also cited as a possible reason for the neighborhood's name, the " fog " being the smoke given off by the industries.

Opposite of the neighborhood's southern border at Gunnison Street are the suburb Harwood Heights, and an unincorporated area housing Ridgemoor Country Club.

Lyrics are especially contemptuous about the neighborhood's new fashion: " All these painters who don't paint any pictures, all these musicians who don't write any songs ; let's relocate them to ghettos in the city, the Starbucks will pop out before long.

Other plans are in the works for a 2. 1 million dollar renovation of the neighborhood's large Genesee park.

The neighborhood's major commercial streets are Knickerbocker Avenue, Myrtle Avenue, Wyckoff Avenue, and Broadway.

The neighborhood's roots are largely English and Protestant but is now home to a large Irish-American / Catholic community and many Irish establishments.

The neighborhood's main thoroughfares are Gilman Drive West, 3rd Avenue West, Queen Anne Avenue North, Boston Street, and a set of streets, collectively known as Queen Anne Boulevard, that loop around the crown of the hill and reflect a comprehensive boulevard design in the style of the Olmsted Brothers architectural firm.

A legacy of that 19th century poverty can be seen in the neighborhood's architecture-there are very few brownstones or even brick-faced buildings in the district.

The neighborhood's boundaries are East 4th Street and the East Village to the north, Canal Street and Chinatown to the South, Allen Street and the Lower East Side to the east and Little Italy to the west.

Residents vary from working-class to middle-class families, who own or rent private homes on the neighborhood's tree-lined residential streets.

As African American families moved to South Shore in the 1950s, white residents became concerned about the neighborhood's stability.

During the 1980s, these communities were replaced with large African American populations ( commonly known as white flight ), which now comprise 72. 3 % of the neighborhood's total population.

Saints Peter and Paul is considered a San Francisco landmark, and emblematic tie to the neighborhood's Italian American past.

After the American Civil War the population increased dramatically, as tenements were erected and increased immigration added to the neighborhood's congestion.

Long a site of shipbuilding, the neighborhood's dockyards harbored the construction of the USS Monitor — the Union's first ironclad fighting ship built during the American Civil War.

Due to its use in city publications, subway maps, and local media, Norwood is the neighborhood's more common name, but the entirety is also known as Bainbridge, most consistently within the neighborhood's Irish American community — centered around the commercial zone of Bainbridge Avenue and East 204th Street.

In 2010 the neighborhood's population was 58. 0 % White, 28. 0 % Black, 0. 2 % Native American, 11. 1 % Asian, 2. 2 % Two or More Races, and 0. 5 % Some Other Race.

Its pubs and shops are considered to be some of the neighborhood's most notable fixtures, although technically it is not part of Woodlawn at all but within the City of Yonkers, New York.

In other neighborhoods, the current official neighborhood association was formed in the 1970s and 1980s ; in Linden Hills, the organization was formed in 1972 in response to proposed changes in the park, although there were several social and commercial organizations in the neighborhood dating back to the neighborhood's development at the turn of the 20th Century.

With Spillane gone, his control of the rackets in Hell's Kitchen began to deteriorate ; Coonan became the neighborhood's boss, although some still viewed Spillane as boss.