Light is not necessary, and in winter time the neighborhood of the furnace is often a very convenient place to keep them safe from frost.
The neighborhood of the town was a drawback rather than an advantage.
The neighborhood was quaint and poor, a part of that old Greenwich Village which at one time was a center of quiet and chaste respectability, with its winding streets, its old-fashioned low brick houses, its trees, its general air of detachment and hushed life.