Joseph Tirone, who leads a neighborhood committee seeking the buyouts, was among five Oakwood Beach homeowners who met with Cuomo and his aides.

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The census taker who knocked on his door for the third time last week is also in charge of the neighborhood's family-planning committee.

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The flag display is run by a neighborhood civic group, not the Olympic committee.

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Public notices by the Beijing Municipal Construction Committee are up around the neighborhood, listing which addresses face relocation.

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On the first day of his visit, as a matter of routine governance, the Jerusalem Planning and Building Committee approved plans to build 1, 600 housing units in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood.

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The neighborhood was a summer retreat for residents until the 1950s, when people started to settle permanently, committee members said.

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