Indian Point weighed on the minds of some neighborhood organizers here - not to mention 9/11, power failures, blizzards and Hurricane Katrina.

She was recruited as a neighborhood organizer, going door to door throughout the city, listening to people's concerns.

"He and his kind want to turn back the clock 100 years," said Ron Chisom, a neighborhood organizer in New Orleans who is 50.

Altogether, neighborhood organizers say, there are about 1,000 residents and workers in their unglamorous corner of Prospect Heights.

Mr. Pu-Folkes, the neighborhood organizer, said: "They've fixed up the rest of the park, where the tourists go.

It has been shaping up as a classic contest of Washington power broker versus neighborhood organizer.

She has also volunteered as a neighborhood organizer.

"I'm a neighborhood organizer, independent of who happens to live in the neighborhood."

A neighborhood organizer who worked with Mr. Lepley to push the crack dealers out of their neighborhood saw his store firebombed.

Where are the neighborhood organizers, the labor people, the social workers, the consumer advocates?