Fulton prides itself on its low crime rate, its tidy neighborhoods and its colorful history.

Friends said the eight came from what appeared to be stable homes in tidy neighborhoods with medium-sized apartment buildings and tree-shaded streets.

The young men stood out with their flowing Arabic robes and beards in a tidy neighborhood where most of the residents were older and Dutch.

Ending immigration would not begin to restore working-class incomes, or bring back those tidy neighborhoods and families that Mr. Beck nostalgically evokes.

Its bulk seems misplaced, as if an alien form had dropped into the tidy neighborhood between Broadway and Riverside Drive.

The Youngs and their children, 7-year-old Jeremy, and 7-month-old Angelica, lived in a tidy neighborhood of detached homes and apartment houses.

The front door to the building opens to a busy street filled with little businesses, and a tidy neighborhood of single-family bungalows sprawls to the rear.

In the 1950's, for example, a former minister persuaded local banks to give mortgages to black families so they could move into the tidy neighborhood around the cream-colored church building.

Ms. Rodriguez said she could not imagine a stabbing in the street right off Bath Avenue, the heart of a tidy, middle-class neighborhood.

But over the summer, Mr. Giuffre found himself helping to prune trees, cut grass and paint mailboxes in the tidy neighborhood.