The family rented an apartment in a Manhattan community known as Spanish Harlem.

"There is a need for the kind of resources and services that this project will bring into the northern Manhattan community," Ms. Fields said.

He served the Manhattan community as a caring physician for 60 years.

In New York City he is most known for his advocacy of Public Education and the work in his northern Manhattan community.

One community advocacy group, Acorn, unfurled banners and assailed the Chancellor for removing a Manhattan community school board member.

Manhattan communities once more prove inhospitable to the kind of diversity and cutting edge creativity these small groups represent.

For all their differences, the two Manhattan communities have a common fixation: the area's vast stock of city-owned properties.

The exhibition doesn't skirt the harsher realities of past and present life in the Manhattan community - disease, poverty, crime, poor housing, displacement.

The panel consists of representatives from a broad spectrum of the Manhattan community, including bar associations, community groups, other civic organizations and law schools.

"Mystical Minimalism" might best describe the aura of the lower Manhattan artistic community of the last quarter-century.