She also received plentiful firsthand information about Dutch life from her immigrant Dutch neighbors, the Scharffs,Gannon, Susan R.; and Thomson, Ruth Anne.

A source who lives in Jamaica, Queens, says that cultural allegiance keeps her Caribbean immigrant neighbors quiet about reggae in the streets and people who double-park.

Other scenes are devoted to Rita's confrontations with her estranged husband and her budding romance with a Turkish immigrant neighbor.

Howe, who had been described as a "swarthy" Indian and a middle-aged spinster, reportedly acted superior to her immigrant neighbors living next to the homestead and gradually became a recluse.

The center is a separate, non-sectarian non-profit that houses the Don Edwards Computer Learning Academy, an after-school program, and ESL classes serving low-income and immigrant neighbors.

Haunted by family members she lost in Ukraine, she is unable, or unwilling, to suspend ties with the old country in the way her more successful immigrant neighbors do.

As editor of McClure's, she published Ida Tarbell's reform-minded investigations and communed with the immigrant neighbors on Bank Street in Greenwich Village.

Playing on the traditional nationalistic ideas of the working class, the fascist groups did their best to turn the skinheads against their immigrant neighbors.

And Janina Owoc, a retired Polish immigrant neighbor, said that though for a time he had a French-speaking male roommate, "I never saw him with girls up there."

But when, in the past, Mrs. Klementowicz mentioned another public hearing or another sewage monitoring meeting to her Polish immigrant neighbors, they often greeted her gadfly activism with weary resignation.