We're talking First Amendment cases, wrongfuldeath suits and neighborhood disputes.

But another resident, who declined to give his name, acknowledged ethnicity has been an element in neighborhood disputes.

(He first made his reputation more than 15 years ago negotiating an end to neighborhood disputes involving development in Queens.)

He wondered if the mayor really wants to become the broker of neighborhood disputes.

This was the start of a neighborhood dispute that lasted for nearly 20 years.

They also review whether a reported bias incident may be the result of an ongoing neighborhood dispute over factors such as noise or disorderly behavior.

"A strong house isn't a bad idea in a country where neighborhood disputes sometimes get out of hand."

Two men were arrested yesterday in the beating death of a man who accidentally walked into the middle of a neighborhood dispute, the police said.

But this was not a neighborhood dispute.

But as in so many neighborhood disputes across the city, there were predictions of calamity during the decadelong struggle to get the Pathmark built.