March Lunch Specials Reservations Required
Mondays:
½-Price Select Pizzas
(Margherita, Mezzanotte and White pizzas only)
Tuesdays: Photo Leslie W. Kipp
$8.99 Combo with Soda Wednesdays:
$3.00 Off Any Pasta Cool Spring-Tilton is one of the city’s most tight-knit neighborhoods says longtime resident Clara Azhradnik.
“I’m impatient. We need things to happen faster,” says Calistro, who briefly challenged Williams in the 2012 Democratic mayoral primary before dropping out of the race. And while he sees government-community cooperation growing, he wants even more. “We need to support his efforts, and we need to incorporate our ideas into his.” While Williams has made public safety the primary focus of his first year in office, the ongoing community revitalization efforts suggests that many residents have other priorities. Even so, they cannot turn a blind eye to the crime that often garners front-page headlines. “I’m strongly encouraged that things are going to be under control,” says the outspoken Calistro, acknowledging that he might have given a different answer a month earlier. “The county, the city, the federal government and the state have to get together with a collaborative strategy. Right now they have all the right people at the table, all the right ingredients,”
We love being part of the city. There’s so much going on. — Katie Sica, Photographer Moran, the Long and Foster real estate agent, advises anyone thinking of living in the city—or even the suburbs—“to visit areas in the evening, and into the night, to make sure they’re comfortable.” Dexter Koonce, Moss’s husband, says the stepped-up patrols city police recently implemented on the East Side seem to be having an impact. “It’s a game of cat and mouse. It’s hard to stop unless you nip it in the bud. The police presence has made a difference,” he says, but the ultimate game changer will be finding job opportunities for more East Side residents. The West Side may be safer than some other parts of the city, Zahradnik says. “We aren’t dealing with the worst of the worst here.” Yes, the neighborhood sometimes has break-ins, sometimes has drug deals, sometimes has shootings and assaults, she admits. “It happens, but it’s not a constant thing, and when we have had issues, it has been resolved,” she says. But sometimes the basic steps in crime prevention are up to the residents themselves. “In any city, there are always going to be issues,” Sica says. “We have to be careful. We take the steps that we need to take to be safe.”
Thursdays:
½-Price Salads All specials are for dine-in lunch in March only. No other discounts can apply to any check with an order from these specials.
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