At a candy store in a nearby block, he walked into a phone booth.

It would also include about 4,500 apartments in more than a dozen buildings on three nearby blocks.

Worried about rising rents on nearby blocks, the two sisters charge less than the going rate to keep their neighbors in business.

Residents pointed to nearby blocks with stoplights and wondered why one had never been considered here.

In each direction she saw low mounds in front of the nearby blocks.

There are, however, nearly 70 trees on nearby blocks that are alive and well.

She said her neighborhood is dangerous at night and described how drug dealers took over a nearby block.

He unhappily goes off and hides behind a nearby block of ice.

"People are coming from nearby blocks and introducing themselves," he said.

The nearby blocks soon attracted the city's wealthiest Jewish families.