Its tidy depictions of well-kept neighborhoods represent a type of souvenir art with which painters who had once enjoyed government stipends supported themselves under the new dynasty.

Always Ede out in a well-kept neighborhood," said the seaman.

"Cambria Heights is a very well-kept neighborhood," Sally Martino-Fisher, the district manager for the community board, said yesterday.

Ms. Smith is proud of her well-kept neighborhood in central Detroit but worries about the crack houses and abandoned buildings nearby.

Those blocks also lay in the reasonably well-kept neighborhood around Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, with its street traffic of doctors and nurses, probably making it less threatening to suburbanites.

Hillcrest is a rather affluent and well-kept neighborhood.

In an otherwise well-kept residential neighborhood, the lot remains an unsightly patch of chaos.

But Fernie had me, already, by its very look: it seems little changed from its prosperous mining days, with a chateau-style courthouse and well-kept old ethnic neighborhoods.

But today, in an otherwise well-kept neighborhood in this city of eight million people, weeds have pushed through the cracks in the imperial courtyards.

Neighbors in the well-kept neighborhood of two-story brick houses said they were shocked by the death.