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Given the nation’s economic disparities, there’s been particular concern about a dispersal of Altadena’s long-standing Black community, which is focused on the town’s west side, in part due to a history of segregation and redlining.

She bought her first apartment in a prewar building on the Upper West Side soon after.

The two men constantly circle each other, two clicks away from West Side Story–style fisticuffs.

However, the day we were to meet in Santa Monica, I observed a man, with a decisive geriatric shuffle, attempting to cross a very busy Ocean Boulevard to the west side of the street where I was standing.

Years of that turned into a year-long stint at the front desk of a dog training facility in Manhattan’s Upper West Side.