The school is one of four built in the last two years in one of the city's most overcrowded districts.

He said the school was overcrowded in an overcrowded district and simply could not accommodate others.

Using money that had been lavished upon her by the orchard owner, she settled into a small house in the bustling, overcrowded northern district.

Perhaps they were lured by the opportunity, offered in many overcrowded districts, to eat lunch at 10 o'clock in the morning.

Schools should be converted to a year-round calendar, as has been successfully done in Los Angeles and other overcrowded districts.

"Queens has some of the most overcrowded districts, and we are desperate for a new space to build a school," she said.

The area was built in the late 1950s to house excess people from the overcrowded districts of the lower Falls.

This overcrowded and squalid district acquired an unsavoury reputation with a large transient population.

Few other overcrowded districts have solutions so near at hand.

Nearly 40 percent of this extremely overcrowded district was below the poverty line; the resulting demonstrations caused fear in the more affluent West End.