41.   Our neighborhood may have fewer trick-or-treaters than usual, but those who stop by can feel welcome and hopefully enjoy themselves, as much as we did as kids.

42.   Richard Lipsky, an aggressive lobbysist for food merchants in Springfield Gardens and Laurelton, argues that those Queens neighborhoods have good stores.

43.   Sao Paulo sprawls like Los Angeles but has very few highways, partly because old neighborhoods have had the political muscle to avoid being bulldozed.

44.   She began locking her doors four years ago, when her neighborhood had a rash of robberies.

45.   She knows that the neighborhood has a future.

46.   Some neighborhoods have longstanding architectural controls, and five Eichler neighborhoods here prohibit second-story additions.

47.   Some neighborhoods have concerns about public housing in their communities.

48.   Some New York neighborhoods have virtually no private doctors, leaving the poor little choice but emergency rooms for basic care.

49.   Sunday the snow has stopped and the neighborhood is having a dig-out, the winter substitute for a cook-out up here.

50.   The Granada Hills neighborhood has not had some of the problems of other ghost towns around the Valley, where gangs or the homeless have taken over abandoned buildings.