Mark out walking routes of different measured distances within the neighborhood. Make highlighted route maps and distribute them to neighbors, using this as an opportunity to get acquainted with people you have never met.

Take walks in your neighborhood and visit with people along the way. Don't be so goal-oriented in your exercise that you don't have the time to be neighborly.

Get in the habit of relaxing out in front of your house whenever you have the opportunity, whether in the morning to watch the sunrise, in the afternoon after work or a walk, or on the weekends.

Make it a habit to go and visit briefly with neighbors whenever you see them out in the yard (but don't make pest of yourself).

When it comes time to replace your fence, consider not having a fence, having shorter fence or putting in a picket fence. One neighborhood in Miami eliminated fences and walls, and found its crime rate dropped drastically. Fences seem to provide more safety for criminals than protection for homeowners.

Organize a meeting to discuss neighborhood activities such as ice-cream suppers, cookouts and the like.

Organize neighborhood-wide yard sales and clean-up days.

Have a neighborhood Fourth of July parade, where the children of the neighborhood have an opportunity to dress up, decorate their bicycles, tricycles and wagons and walk through the neighborhood. Urge everyone to decorate their houses with flags and bunting.

Offer to mow the yards of elderly neighbors.

Organize a neighborhood street festival.