1.   Among the opponents was Joseph B. Rose, now the chairman of the City Planning Commission, then the chairman of the mid-Manhattan community board.

2.   And Blair just happens to sit on the local community board.

3.   And Orthodox Jews have gotten involved in local issues, serving on the community board and uniting with blacks against a topless bar in the area.

4.   Arellanes helps create and develop community boards to expose children to sports.

5.   Arturo Sanchez, an urban planner who was recently appointed to the community board, said there is a need for historical perspective.

6.   A fledgling community board that contentiously came together over the past eight months Thursday took definitive steps toward bringing a proposed federal AIDS and tuberculosis study to town.

7.   But already, there has been friction between local community boards.

8.   But even that would not warrant giving community boards broad new responsibilities without proper monitoring.

9.   But it did not count on the hostility of a community board wary of noise and traffic problems.

10.   But Ms. Dolinsky, the local community board and the Municipal Art Society said that the MTA got the short end of the deal.