Little educational advancement for the poverty-stricken students of Ocean Hill-Brownsville could be achieved without additional resources, which were not provided.

He sent her into Ocean Hill-Brownsville at the beginning of the strike "to provide a union presence," she recalled in an interview.

Compared with the 1990 census, Ocean Hill-Brownsville, for example, lost 22 percent of its white population.

Ocean Hill-Brownsville, with 589, has the smallest percentage.

One of the mothers in Ocean Hill-Brownsville said to me, "If you want a good laugh, go to a board meeting."

The estimated $40 million it cost to build the jail, they have said, would have been better spent on a high school for Ocean Hill-Brownsville.

Other parents sent their children to Ocean Hill-Brownsville because the schools there were operational.

The conflict at Ocean Hill-Brownsville smoldered after the end of the strike.

Her own vague impression of Ocean Hill-Brownsville has undergone a shift since she moved in a year ago.

Likewise, schools in Brooklyn's Ocean Hill-Brownsville became a battleground between the teachers' union and forces demanding community control.