1.   Monta o accuses the city of deliberately forcing the neighborhood to go downhill, the better to justify a future land grab.

2.   As flocks go, there would go the neighborhood.

3.   As Tokyo neighborhoods go, Hiroo is relatively affluent, so no property goes vacant for long.

4.   After housing restrictions were eased, the neighborhood went into steep decline, losing population and many landmarks from its heyday.

5.   After all, the neighborhood has gone from the cradle of immigrant life to the area with the highest per capita ratio of nightclubs in Manhattan.

6.   But before that, the neighborhood went bad with drugs and crime.

7.   Every year at this time, our neighborhoods go through a spectacular metamorphosis.

8.   Meanwhile, for the woman on Westmoreland Street who has seen her neighborhood go from bad to devastated, there is little to be learned in the probe.

9.   Mrs. Johnigan said her crime-ridden neighborhood went virtually unprotected.

10.   Neighborhoods go through their cycles.