1.   The neighborhoods feel safer.

2.   And the neighborhood feels as homey as a battlefield.

3.   But there is no question the massive police presence in Harlem heightened a sense of isolation that black neighborhoods feel under this administration.

4.   Longtime residents of the Upper West Side complain that their neighborhood feels more and more like midtown.

5.   No neighborhood feels safe.

6.   Now, while workers and residents say with grim relief that the smell of carnage is gone, the neighborhood still feels under siege.

7.   Rarely does the neighborhood feel the shifting demographic sands more than during Ramadan, the monthlong period of daytime fasting, which began on Friday.

8.   The inaugural, moreover, had a neighborhood feel.