But things are not always what they seem, and that is often true in New York neighborhoods.

New York neighborhoods do not announce their sea changes.

It also comes at a time when drugs, more than any other issue, has angered voters in many New York neighborhoods.

Arguably, all New York neighborhoods have at least some white residents.

Perhaps as in any other New York neighborhood, the issue that cuts across lines of class, race, religion and ethnicity is crime.

Which brings us to the fascinating 1990's business chronicle in that other New York neighborhood.

Life as lived by four black women in a New York neighborhood.

They came from a dozen or more New York neighborhoods and suburban towns.

In case you were wondering, we are not referring here to New York neighborhoods.

Here are a dozen such places, reflecting many different kinds of New York neighborhoods.