But this gritty industrial neighborhood is suddenly in the sights of many real estate developers hungry for land.

Whether such success can be repeated in one of New York's grittiest neighborhoods remains to be seen.

In this gritty neighborhood, art and architecture stand in for nature.

Now the one-story school building stands forlorn on a garbage-strewn lot in a gritty neighborhood.

Mr. Bravo remembers being a tough street kid back then, a boy who held his own in a gritty neighborhood.

They very carefully swept the silent, gritty beachfront neighborhood.

It made him feel like part of the gritty neighborhood; it didn't matter which neighborhood.

That behavior is all the more evident in East Harlem, a gritty neighborhood where problems back up on people like fallen dominoes.

It was initially a gritty working-class neighborhood, but has experienced rapid transformation since the 1990s.

Today, the gritty neighborhood is still zoned for manufacturing, with a few small meatpacking and cleaning businesses operating.