The Kramdens and the Nortons are working-class neighbors, with bus driver Ralph Kramden (Cedric the Entertainer) and sewage worker Ed Norton (Epps) being best friends.

Sublime found humor and depth in its down-to-earth community of surfers, hip-hop kids, petty criminals, marijuana smokers and working-class neighbors.

Mr. Woods said the lot has become a tradition on the West Side, a place where his working-class neighbors can go and have a good time and not go broke.

George and Louise began their TV existence as Archie Bunker's working-class neighbors, saved their pennies, then "moved on up," as the theme song says, to Manhattan's East Side.

She will appreciate her parents' volunteerism, aware that they gave their energies to the community when most of their working-class neighbors could not afford such a sacrifice of time.

The movie adroitly parallels Emerson's pursuit of Don with Kaya's impulsive affair with a working-class neighbor who attends one of the Thorsens' parties.

"National Anthems," Mr. McIntyre's drama about a well-to-do young couple whose acquisitive life style is assailed by their working-class neighbor, was produced last year at the Long Wharf.

After the furniture is rearranged, they learn that their working-class neighbor Mr. Scott has died.

Most of his poor and working-class neighbors, he took pains to add, were in fact law-abiding citizens.

The location near the stockyards and meat packing industrial area of the city attracted many of its working-class neighbors, including many new converts who came to Catholicism through St. Casimir Church.