Almost all visible windows were either boarded up or broken.
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Charleston residents boarded up businesses and prepared to hunker down.
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Some are even boarded up or outfitted with hurricane shutters.
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Sixty to 70 percent of the shops are boarded up.
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The storefronts and banks were boarded up, the downtowns deserted.
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But many sat empty, their windows boarded up or missing.
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"I boarded up my chicken coop and boarded up my house and prepared for the oncoming, next disaster," said Stefani Hinkle, a farmer and performer who lives near a major fissure in the volcanic eruption.
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Discount shops and boarded-up shopfronts testify to a harder present.
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The restaurant where we'd go with my grandparents is boarded up.
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Every fifth or sixth house was boarded up in our neighborhood.
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I didn't notice littered sidewalks, graffiti or boarded-up shop fronts.
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Pitts takes me to an abandoned building, boarded up and dark.
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In Wilmington, North Carolina, a bar has boarded up its windows.
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Hilarious messages were spray-painted on boarded-up houses across southern Florida.
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Many stores on the Champs-Élysées were also boarded up with plywood.
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Just one other house now remains, its windows boarded up, awaiting demolition.
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I can't even look inside since all the rooms are boarded up.
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They have food and water ready and they've boarded up their windows.
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Along Donner Avenue, there are more boarded-up buildings than open stores.
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But documents show that investigators found it properly secured and boarded up.
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"It was like, boom, your house is boarded up," Ms. Kaufman said.
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Many grocery stores were open but boarded up and shelves emptying out.
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In Panama City Beach, many businesses were closed and homes boarded up.
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Since the 1970s, however, the avenue's boarded-up buildings have drawn criminals.
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One day, we drive by to find the front door boarded up.
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The house is now boarded up, its back half all but gone.
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Some are boarded up, and others open just a few hours a day.
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Several sets of eyes were watching them from behind a boarded up storefront.
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Foreclosures then depressed property values, bringing boarded-up windows and dangerous street corners.
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She saw the empty lots, the boarded-up houses, people not coming outside.
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First, the boarded-up storefront in South Omaha, NE, was a butcher shop .
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The windows were boarded up but Fred could hear voices coming from inside.
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Businesses in Florida and the Bahamas boarded up in preparation for Hurricane Dorian.
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Abandoned homes are now regularly torn down or boarded up and auctioned off.
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It was ruled that the well was empty, and it was boarded up.
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They worry about the boarded up shack where a witch used to live.
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Young people with drugged eyes lean against boarded-up walls on desolate streets.
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Several shops are boarded up; the library opens only two days a week.
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About half the houses are occupied but the other half are boarded up.
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The living room window is boarded up, covered with shot up rifle targets.
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The chateau, its roof sagging, its windows boarded up, is collapsing into ruin.
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The front door and windows of Farook and Malik's place were boarded up.
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Three teen-agers walking by paused, staring at the boarded-up town house.
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"The house is boarded up … and shuttered with half-inch thick plywood," Gonzalez continued.
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Major stores, including some that were boarded up on recent weekends, opened their doors.
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That&aposs where many of the shop owners boarded up in anticipation of violence.
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My bedroom had a large fireplace that had been boarded up and painted over.
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Boarded-up and crumbling houses, dollar shops and fried-chicken outlets dominate the picture.
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Its damaged sign now stands over bay windows boarded up by people sheltering inside.
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They bought when they could and people open restaurants and bought boarded up places.
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When tenants left, the housing authority at times just boarded up the empty apartments.
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Messages still on the compound's boarded up gate are stark: "No mosque," graffiti reads.
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"There are unrepaired bullet holes, exposed wires, and boarded-up windows," the complaint said.
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It's rippled with endless rolling hills, dense forest, little towns, and boarded-up mines.
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We boarded up the windows and we are hunkered down in our basement apartment.
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City blocks that had once housed drilling service companies are vacant and boarded up.
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In Bovill, he stopped in front of a boarded-up, century-old opera house.
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The downtowns of the Upstate's largest cities went from boarded up to spruced up.
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I have water, I have cash, I boarded up my windows, I have gas.
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Mr. Islam said the home was sealed off with concrete blocks and boarded up.
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The restaurant is still boarded up; Mr Issler does not know when it will reopen.
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"We will turn boarded-up communities into new outposts of American commerce," Trump later said.
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The monument was boarded up after vandals spray painted it, according to CNN affiliate WDAF.
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Moonlight reveals a shallow climb to a false bottom, boarded up since out of use.
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Broken windows have been boarded up instead of reglazed: building materials are in short supply.
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But just one or two blocks away, the streets are lined with boarded-up buildings.
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The boarded up shopfront and makeshift shrine to those who lost their lives soon disappeared.
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" She added, laughing: "I bet it wouldn't stay boarded up for more than two days.
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They settled on a house on a block where only two homes were boarded up.
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With shuddered factories, boarded up main streets, and everyone who can heading for the exits.
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Or having it boarded up and empty, and people are going to squat there anyway?
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Out her bedroom window, she gazes at Thornhill, boarded up and graffitied, and sees … something.
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The weathered, two-story brick building was surrounded by razed lots and boarded-up homes.
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Lovingly tended little homes abut others that are boarded up, their lots gone to weeds.
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In Free Experience, Wayne introduced the window idiom with broken and partially boarded up panes.
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Homeless people went from street to street documenting every boarded-up building in the city.
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I boarded up for Ike and for Rita, which came after Katrina, and nothing happened.
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It's like something out of a disaster film: deserted streets, empty sidewalks, boarded-up storefronts.
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A short drive south of the Phoenix and new buildings turn to boarded-up shops.
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Pastel beach houses stood empty, seafood restaurants were boarded up, and sand littered the road.
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That same year, the Fire Department requested the vacant house be boarded up, records show.
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Boarded-up shops faced the lots on one side, and public housing on two others.
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There is a painter whose house is boarded up after nearly burning down last year.
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The first floor was empty and boarded up while the attic was a storage area.
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Whole streets have been boarded up against the junkies who hunker miserably on the weedy verges.
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A third of U.S. malls could be boarded up or put to other uses should Amazon.
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Still, the firing positions were there, horizontal notches carved into the boarded-up windows and doors.
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There's more ... a broken window is boarded up ... making it look like the house is abandoned.
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Some people cleaned shattered glass from about a dozen storefronts and boarded up doors and windows.
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"It took us so long to get these two houses boarded up," Albert told the affiliate.
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Sometimes, students are living between boarded-up row houses -- of which, in Baltimore, there are many.
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Shops and cafes boarded up, and monuments like the Arc de Triomphe and museums stayed closed.
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She's dumped her corporate boyfriend, lives in a partially boarded-up apartment building and rarely eats.
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But now, windows are boarded up in some shopfronts and the streets are devoid of cars.
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I think the biggest shock was seeing businesses with boarded up or papered-over storefronts. pic.twitter.
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Later, this basement room in the Key House was boarded up and closed off to everyone.
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Many storefronts in the area are still boarded up, and even Walmart left town, Key said.
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Four blocks away, about a third of the houses on Johnston's block remain boarded up with plywood.
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Duggan said by the end of July, 1,000 houses on the east side will be boarded up.
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When a home gets boarded up on one block, you can almost bet another will follow nearby.
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By the end of July, Duggan said, 1,000 houses on the east side will be boarded up.
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On Wednesday, with the powerful storm bearing down, much of the city was boarded up and deserted.
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In the late 1940s, Hay went into a nursing home and the shop was simply boarded up.
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All but a few businesses had closed and were boarded up by Tuesday evening, leaving streets empty.
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When I went to the CVS in Baltimore, it was still boarded up and covered in graffiti.
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Few had their stores and homes boarded up and some residents seemed to be welcoming the protesters.
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Its Central Avenue is not the hollowed-out, boarded-up Main Street of twenty-first-century lore.
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Other homes were boarded up, suggesting they were abandoned, but many had trucks parked in their driveways.
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Large windows along the sides, which were boarded up during the hangar's soundstage days, were re-exposed.
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The adjacent storefront, also an art gallery, had just been boarded up by Nelson and Mary Ohl.
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Their new home, once a sewing workshop, is on a quiet street with many boarded-up shops.
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Even boarded up and hidden away, the old City Hall station has lived on in the imagination.
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TAVERNISE: And the house itself, with its tall steps and its red brick, is boarded up now.
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Since the first series of killings, the city has boarded up vacant homes and cleared empty lots.
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I turn the cruiser down a side street and pass six boarded‑up houses in a row.
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All around her, houses were still boarded up or covered with sagging scabs of blue emergency tarp.
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Vive occupies a former schoolhouse next door to an abandoned neo-Gothic church with boarded-up windows.
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" He went on, "You drive through it, you see boarded-up homes, broken glass, closed-up businesses.
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Near the church, the grocer's is boarded up too, its paintwork peeling in the cold damp air.
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I passed a town called Utopia, whose boarded-up windows and stillness suggested it was anything but.
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At the Olympic Park, some stadium entrances are boarded up, and screws are scattered on the ground.
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Charleston streets were quiet, and most stores and restaurants downtown were boarded up ahead of the storm.
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"That house was boarded up for a while," said Assistant Chief Joseph Jardin of the Fire Department.
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I passed boarded-up shops in the hearts of small towns, and tumbledown barns and abandoned farmland.
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Stores and restaurants are forbidden from selling bottled alcoholic beverages, and many have already boarded up their windows.
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Cities and counties along the state's coastal region distributed sandbags to residents as some businesses boarded up windows.
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On the estate, the Friterie-Snack Bar is open for chips, but other shop fronts are boarded up.
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Across the city, banks, toy shops, opticians and other retail outlets had boarded up storefronts smashed by protesters.
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But it's only a matter of time before a boarded-up property turns into a gleaming, shiny, building.
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Rebecca Esparza of Corpus Christi said her family is prepared to stay in their now-boarded up house.
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The women's dorm, however, still sits on the edge of a fallow field, boarded up but apparently sturdy.
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At times, some residents would even visit them in the boarded-up turquoise building that was their home.
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The boarded-up windows, the ill-lit rooms, and the crumbling facade all made for a terrifying tour.
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Lamp-posts, benches and rubbish bins line signposted streets, and windows are boarded up to simulate wartime conditions.
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Shops that had been boarded up with plywood showed minimal damage — a shattered window here, a watermark there.
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Not for them the empty streets and boarded-up shops of other former coal-mining regions of Europe.
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We hassled some strangers outside a boarded-up public convenience to see what they made of the situation.
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In Ridge, neighbors were upset that Mr. Gonzales-Mugaburu had returned to his boarded-up home on Tuesday.
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The building Esmat once studied in is now boarded up after it was rendered unusable from the fighting.
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I had been there for about three years and was constantly going by this boarded-up movie theater.
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In Chinatown, red lanterns sway in the wind, and the sky is blue above the boarded-up parlors.
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It was most likely the only governor's residence in the country with a rusted gate and boarded-up windows.
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He marvels that brownstone houses nearby used to go for a song, when many were boarded up and abandoned.
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That means no dead zones, so you can actually go back into those rooms that were once boarded up.
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"You won't make it past Christmas, Emmanuel," read the graffiti on a boarded-up shop near the Champs Elysees.
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He was pulling a board off the boarded-up home's front down when a woman next door came outside.
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Top Pot got its name from a sign that the founders rescued from an old, boarded-up Chinese restaurant.
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Hence boarded up high streets are a visual reminder of the wider societal costs of Internet-enabled profit shifting.
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Boarded-up display windows for Christian Dior, Fendi and Louis Vuitton lined the city's deserted Union Square shopping district.
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Store owners have boarded up their windows and left sandbags in front of door frames to limit the damage.
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Many streets are notable for empty lots—where property has been demolished—or for dilapidated and boarded-up houses.
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Yet a short drive in nearly any direction reveals boarded-up houses, sagging roofs, vacant lots and cracked roads.
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His Orgone Energy Observatory there, which had been boarded up, is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
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"I could see the flames coming out of the door," Ms. Ewy said, pointing to a boarded-up room.
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Leonard discovered the tunnel behind a boarded-up wall in the old Bundy Hotel, where the poker games took place.
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All the windows were boarded up yet a single beam of moonlight managed to sneak in, piercing the dark space.
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We collect outside the Caribbean Cinemas, which sounds exotic but isn't, with its blown-out windows and boarded-up doors.
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The adventure starts with Brown boarded up in a room, three days into a bender with no end in sight.
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The windows and glass doors that lead into the Napoleon Ballroom have been shattered and boarded up with mildewed plywood.
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The narrative typically spun about south Wales—beautiful valleys filled with boarded-up shops—could not be less relevant here.
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While most of the windows were boarded up, small slits of light snuck through, offering glimpses of the rundown building.
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The airport briefly reopened a few hours later, but then more drones were spotted, and things got boarded up again.
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The first floor was boarded up, but two plaques, one metal, one stone, were embedded in the sidewalk before it.
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The distinctive building is now moldering, however, with rotten clapboards, boarded-up windows and a blue tarp on the roof.
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The windows had been partially boarded up, so it took a while for my eyes to adjust to the darkness.
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One of the buildings was clearly in poor repair, with boarded-up windows and large visible cracks on the facade.
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Police officers walk past a boarded-up bar following the cancellation of the annual St. Patrick's Day parade and celebrations.
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To replace tenements and boarded-up buildings, he proposed restaurants, shops and an arts walk rivaling San Antonio's River Walk.
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TRENTON — Beneath the gilded dome, windows are boarded up, and some have frames held together with clips and duct tape.
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Most of the homes on his old block had either been torn down or were boarded up and awaiting demolition.
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Residents boarded up their homes, formed long lines at gas stations and emptied the shelves of hardware stores and supermarkets.
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The old dormitory of Alma White Bible College is now boarded up, and a family of beavers is in residence.
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Now the market is boarded up, spray-painted with a mural of a blue heart and the Pulaski Skyway bridge.
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Until very recently, the front of this new Greek restaurant was intentionally boarded up, in order to throw diners off.
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But drive a block or so from Sister Pie and you'll still find street after street of boarded-up houses.
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Thanks to passport-free travel within the European Union, motorists zipped past the boarded-up customs houses without even braking.
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We have seen schools, churches and community centers shut down, and once vibrant Main Streets become boarded up and deserted.
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The figure seemed exaggerated until Fetterman turned his truck down a road where all but two houses were boarded up.
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Power Stretch Studios in Montclair, New Jersey, had suffered a fire in September, and its windows and door was boarded up.
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Nearby, a group of young men lounge on the wooden stoop of another once-handsome looking home, its windows boarded up.
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Now the city is being defined by one image: rows of crumbling, boarded-up vacant homes ringed by weeds and graffiti.
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So paint their words—their real words—in big, bold letters on every decaying billboard and boarded up shop in America.
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Most of the buildings are boarded up, but there are other people, including some in their Vault 76 suits, running around.
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The reason the windows were boarded up was because one of the neighborhood children had been hurling rocks through the glass.
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What if by doing that, you wouldn't be walking through deserted main streets, past boarded-up shops, dark alleys and graffiti?
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Since 2014, about 14,000 vacant houses have been demolished and thousands more have been boarded up or rehabilitated, city officials said.
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On Sunday, The Hornet's social media accounts shared an image of two people posing in front of the boarded-up restaurant.
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There was a curved roof designed to collect rainwater, shattered pieces of ceramic tile, a dried-up well, boarded-up doors.
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Many residents boarded up their homes and got out, heeding the pleas of officials from the governor down to the mayor.
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An Instagram-friendly letter-board sign reading GO THE EXTRA MILE was propped on the mantel over a boarded-up fireplace.
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In the first room, all the windows are boarded up and several LED lights give the place a hospital-like glow.
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But sadly most have just been boarded up, never again to drink the piss of a relieved member of the public.
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Eventually I arrived at what was once the Grand Hotel Saint-Louis, a frequent haunt of the narrator, now boarded up.
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Residents and business owners boarded up windows with plywood and hurricane shutters and placed sandbags down to protect property against flooding.
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Two windows are boarded up and held together by masking tape, having been damaged by a rock fight between two gangs.
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"I'm a bit nervous," he said, as he leaned against a boarded-up building and huddled deeper into his pinstriped overcoat.
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The tunnel that Karim came through earlier has now been boarded up, and yes, the police with Karim think he's going crazy.
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The window in the place was boarded up, and every inch of wall was covered in punk rock posters and dick drawings.
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There are old farmhouses made a touch less gloomy with Halloween decorations, and shops and restaurants that have all been boarded up.
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We went back Friday afternoon to see how the folks who boarded up and rode out the storm at Cruisin Cafe fared.
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He used to live on the first floor at No. 28, but the window is now boarded up with a metal sheet.
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What used to be a Burger King shut down earlier this month, and now it sits abandoned with its windows boarded up.
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Anne takes this as encouragement to rush to Gilbert's house, but alas, he's not home and the place has been boarded up.
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Mar-a-Lago could be seen with windows visibly shuttered and boarded up, according to a tweet from WPBF reporter Whitney Burbank.
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It was "boarded up, ripped out, and flooded" by the time its developer, Harry Skydell, snagged it for $803 million in 1982.
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In these data are shuttered coal mines on the edges of rural towns and boarded-up gas stations on rural main streets.
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We pass eerie, boarded-up buildings, a forgotten baseball field made to resemble Fenway Park, and a faded sign for an infirmary.
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The coastal retreat, originally built in 1965, was damaged by Hurricane Danny in 1997 and remained boarded up and neglected — until now.
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Windows were still boarded up, and emergency stockpiles of food, water and supplies, gathered in advance of the earlier storm, were untouched.
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"Everything is boarded up and put away and all we have to do is wait and see what happens," Ms. Gardiner said.
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Buildings across the city were either boarded up or had their windows taped in order to mitigate the damage of broken glass.
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"When anchor stores are boarded up, traffic to the retailers in the middle sections of malls tends to decrease," Business Insider explains.
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On my way to work, I drive past blocks that are completely uninhabitable — boarded-up houses with the debris of evicted tenants.
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In Britain, with higher online-shopping penetration, the owners of high-street property suffer from an epidemic of boarded-up shops and bankruptcies.
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People in Taiwan boarded up their houses and braced for the arrival of Typhoon Megi on Tuesday, its third typhoon in two weeks.
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She is sure there have been others in the neighborhood's foreclosed and boarded-up homes, but it is sometimes hard to identify them.
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He said he had pulled about 30 of the fireplaces from a hotel on Houston Street that had been boarded up for decades.
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Previous videos shot by drones before the windows were boarded up also showed a stack of mattresses in the building, and an easel.
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The street where she ended up in Poughkeepsie's downtown was very quiet on a winter Saturday, and some boarded-up businesses were visible.
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Residents, meanwhile, have boarded up their homes and, in some cases, have been moved to larger islands from low-lying areas by boat.
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One of the bedrooms is believed to have a glass ceiling that was boarded up when electricity was installed, according to the listing.
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In the film, two families are living together in a boarded-up house after a disease has eradicated much of the world's population.
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It was a stark contrast to the boarded up swaths of Detroit, just minutes away, still suffering the effects of the 1967 unrest.
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The houses give way to apartment buildings, still beautiful, but now the bricks are crumbling and the windows are broken and boarded up.
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The building's entrance, which the police had rammed with a military-style vehicle in an effort to stop the attacker, was still boarded up.
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The line snakes down Ellis Street, past a boarded-up lot and a single-room apartment building for the poor, then winds up Leavenworth.
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The whole house had fallen into disrepair, with windows that had been boarded up, overgrown shrubbery, and the front door hanging off its hinge.
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Beyond blocks of boarded-up houses, many of them still beautiful, Mr Winegarden shows off University Avenue, which connects two of Flint's five colleges.
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It is one of few industries left in the city, where outside the center, streets are pockmarked with boarded-up shops and derelict pubs.
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Despite its substantial economic benefits to the nearby town of Superior, where many homes and businesses are boarded up, residents still have their concerns.
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He then takes Rachel to where he grew up, driving past boarded-up houses and narcing out someone he says is a drug dealer.
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Oepriarto's house is now boarded up and cordoned off with police tape after being searched by bomb squad and forensics teams for two days.
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Residents boarded up windows and fortified homes in Santa Ana, a fishing town often battered by storms, where the weather was calm and sunny.
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But now their rented five-bedroom house was gone, reduced to ashes and rubble with only a piece of a boarded up shed left.
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The windows to the unit were boarded up with wood and black singes on the door frame betrayed the tragedy of the night before.
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His building appears derelict from the outside, with the ground-floor windows boarded up, but inside it teems with families packed into tiny units.
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One of the windows had been boarded up with a wooden "Elect Bobby R. Hale" sandwich board, and the other was obscured by ivy.
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There was an abandoned house across the street that had been boarded up and I eventually noticed a person was occupying the upstairs floor.
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It reminded me of opening the door to a summer cottage that been boarded up for the winter, looking inside, and seeing familiar surroundings.
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The intersection has the corner store, the barbershop, a drugstore, an old sports bar with a door and windows that had been boarded up.
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It was unclear who "our" referred to, as the space above was eerily blank and Rod's, the building behind the sign, was boarded up.
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Delays and shortages In parts of Srinagar, shops are boarded up and the streets deserted due to the continued presence of Indian paramilitary soldiers.
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There isn't a garden in it — only the vestige of one, vines creeping up the side of a boarded-up cottage in Xenia, Ill.
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Banks and other mortgage holders boarded up the foreclosed properties, and often failed to mow the lawns or otherwise maintain them in good condition.
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Only the next morning did we realize that the eastern face of the hotel was checkered with boarded-up windows from years of shelling.
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The Rhythm Club Windows had been boarded up to keep out people who didn't pay admission at the Natchez, Mississippi, club on April 23, 19903.
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Ana Barros grew up in a two-family house built by Habitat for Humanity, hard by the boarded-up buildings and vacant lots of Newark.
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The boarded-up remains of defunct businesses that were once thriving monuments to mom-and-pop capitalism — and a determination to keep going, to remember.
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On Thursday, she shared photos of her boarded-up home to her Instagram Stories, as well as video from the grocery store with her mother.
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After his hour-long tour of Baltimore's Sandtown neighborhood, dotted with vacant and boarded-up rowhomes, Sanders sat for a roundtable with the clergy members.
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They know all about the boarded-up and burnt-out homes, the gunshots they hear at night and now, the water they're terrified to drink.
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Right under those floor boards is an old well that they use to draw their water from that has been boarded up and built over.
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Across the street, a chain-link fence surrounded an entire block of boarded-up and decayed houses, and empty lots where others had burned down.
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Today, most of those storefronts — the school supply shop, the travel agency and many more — are boarded up, with little hope of housing new businesses.
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Today it resembles a ghost town: dozens of its houses are boarded up, their walls daubed in graffiti and hollowed interiors invaded by creeping vines.
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Bill York, the owner, had already boarded up his house, but he saw no reason to close up Foghorn's if landfall was not until Wednesday.
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A man named Wain Hall, 783, was standing with his bicycle, screaming at a security guard by the boarded-up entrance to the emergency room.
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On a recent weekday, Mr. Ryland offered a tour of what was left, driving down a Main Street lined with crumbling and boarded-up storefronts.
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Like Ms. Hinkle, homeowners across the state boarded up windows and stocked up as the hurricane approached, emptying stores of essentials like water and batteries.
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Some of the rowhouses across the street are boarded up — reminders of the cycles of poverty and abandonment this city has struggled with for years.
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The ghost-town feel was reinforced by boarded-up shops, half-finished construction sites and posters advertising events that had long since come and gone.
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The group paints a dystopian picture of Boston's decline, describing a wasteland of boarded up windows, businesses closing down to be replaced by charity stores.
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Though the former window of the little house is boarded up, perhaps against the eponymous fire damage, the front windows emit warm light through peach curtains.
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In Brasilia, the capital, authorities boarded up windows of government buildings on Thursday amid fears that protests could result in violent clashes between demonstrators and police.
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A line of boarded-up clapboard shops selling tacky T-shirts lined the road in, and the central plazas were occupied only by the occasional dog.
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Abandoned cars and security posts with vines and grass creeping up between them, broken and boarded up windows and doors, left luggage and improvised camping spots.
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Old-school shotgun houses that survived her rage abut boarded-up homes still bearing the spray-painted Xs indicating whether bodies were found after the storm.
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" In "Call," Swift sings "All the flowers grew back as thorns / Windows boarded up after the storm / He built a fire just to keep me warm.
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When we do see the window in Twilley's paintings, it is mostly boarded up: a strip of light peers in through a narrow sliver of space.
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Residents of Puerto Rico, who were spared some of Irma's wrath when that hurricane's core passed north of the island, boarded up homes and businesses Tuesday.
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Dave Stewart, owner of Kayak Hanalei, had boarded up the windows on his shop by mid-afternoon and moved the company's rental kayaks to high ground.
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It is an enchantingly deceptive sight, masking needs and wants all around it: boarded-up homes, horses grazing on fields of empty bottles and dried grass.
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In countless scenes, almost as if a crypto-Catholic was a part of the production, a Catholic Church is seen boarded up behind an iron gate.
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Army troops stand watch at a boarded-up storefront during a rally in support of the Black Panther Party in New Haven, Connecticut, May 2, 1970.
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When he finished, he boarded up the front door of his old Rowe Street house and parked a neighbor's spare truck in the iced-over driveway.
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His unit, comprised of firefighters from Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana, found people stuck inside homes that were boarded up or trapped by fallen debris or trees.
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"I'm not approaching Florence from fear or panic," said Brad Corpening, 35, who planned to ride out the storm in his boarded-up delicatessen in Wilmington.
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Sitting in front of the bar, by a window overlooking a row of boarded-up houses along the town's small main street, Enrique drank a beer.
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Trump won, after all, in large part on a promise to reopen boarded up factories, keep jobs in the United States and "rip up" unfair trade deals.
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A short drive along the nest of interstates leads from South Dallas' boarded-up storefronts to Oak Lawn's gleaming multipurpose developments and businesses bedecked in rainbow flags.
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Puerto Ricans are burrowed inside shelters, cement bunkers, and boarded-up houses as Hurricane Maria, a Category 290 storm still gathering strength, whirls toward the US territory.
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People who stayed behind stocked up on supplies and boarded up windows, as there were numerous reports of county governments, schools, cruise lines and amusement parks closing.
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The city intends to transform a boarded-up Victorian mansion, once owned by the first black woman in Newark to become a millionaire, into space for startups.
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In the Kailua town of Oahu Island, last-minute shoppers were stocking up at Whole Foods super market, where windows were boarded up bracing for strong winds.
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If you drive on the plains a lot, you see towns in decline: store windows boarded up on Main Street, houses becoming run-down, local schools closed.
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Jimmy Allen, a retired teacher and 1960s street gang leader who functions as Mantua's de facto mayor, knows its ills: boarded-up houses, drug addiction, struggling schools.
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In the meantime, many of us are trying to help save the Harrowgate from becoming yet another boarded up building on the Sheriff's sale list in Philadelphia.
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" Kilian Ganly, a former landscape designer, said, "As I walk around New York these days—I'm retired—I can't help but notice all these boarded-up places.
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We were in a subdivision of small, nearly identical homes built by the Cherokee Nation, some abandoned and boarded up, others decorated with cheerful window flower boxes.
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There was no one living on the first floor of the brick building, which was boarded up, but a separate staircase allowed access to the second floor.
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Grace Notes It is an out-of-the-way house on Staten Island, the windows boarded up, the basement sloshing in an inch or two of water.
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But nearby, one duplex has holes in its windows, and another is smashed and boarded up, damaged by a car that careened into it not long ago.
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Just outside the venue sat a home crumbling under the wet snow, with its windows boarded up and saplings pushing out from between the peeling wooden siding.
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It closed after it was bought by a real estate company, and then a Speedway station, just a few storefronts away from King's, was also boarded up.
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The hospital's front door was boarded up Friday morning, water service hadn't been restored, and a handmade sign directed patients to the emergency room, which remains operational.
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The building had to be boarded up — headline writers called it "the plywood palace" — and some Bostonians saw the debacle as "retribution for overreaching," Mr. Cobb said.
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But in the shadows of the city's thriving business and entertainment district are languishing East Side neighborhoods pocked with boarded-up homes and overgrown, trash-strewn lots.
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The incident left a large hole in the side of the side of the house, which was boarded up by Jennifer Smith's neighbor, who is also a contractor.
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Costelloe apologizes, telling me we can't get inside today, so instead, I search for a window that isn't smashed or boarded up, and press my face against it.
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Coastal cities and counties distributed sandbags to residents as some businesses boarded up windows, and residents flocked to grocery stores to stock up on supplies, local media reported.
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HONOLULU (Reuters) - Hurricane Lane churned slowly toward Hawaii late on Wednesday as schools, government offices and business closed and residents stocked up on supplies and boarded up homes.
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Asmara is littered with boarded-up shops and empty factories, most of which date back decades to when Eritrea was one of the most industrialised parts of Africa.
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Dobyne, her husband and their three kids escaped from the fire unharmed, but as of Monday they were sleeping in their car while their apartment remained boarded up.
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It was not a good part of town, most of the homes on the street are boarded up … Apparently there had been a squatter staying in the house.
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Dave Stewart, owner of Kayak Hanalei, had boarded up all the windows on his shop by mid-afternoon Thursday and moved the company's rental kayaks to high ground.
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Now you go past boarded-up single-family homes to arrive at once opulent, equally shuttered casino towers and a boardwalk as sparse and silent as the streets.
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There isn't much that's golden about it anymore, the disrepair and blight that preceded the storm apparent even here in boarded-up windows and half-empty office buildings.
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His stills show ball games in between boarded-up houses, family strolls along barren concrete walls, and elderly couples waiting for the bus opposite burned-down tower blocks.
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Stores at Scottsdale Mall, where we went to the movies and did our Christmas shopping, were getting boarded up less than a decade after it opened in 1973.
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All this will test the limits of what a university which excels at solving theoretical problems can do for a place marked by boarded-up houses and mistrust.
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With beer and cocktails flowing freely, officials have deployed outdoor urinals across the city and some offices and stores, wary of vandals, have boarded up windows and doors.
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There are other signs of those times, too, like graffiti, boarded-up buildings and empty lots that blemish the neighborhood in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where the film takes place.
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"We see people coming in and buying the houses," she said, gesturing to one abandoned home where a new owner has boarded up the windows and front door.
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"There's parties all over," said Elle Norton, 58, as she boarded up the windows of her pale pink house in downtown Charleston, and brought her potted plants inside.
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But then the corner of an underground car park where Richardson had been sleeping got boarded up, and he faced the prospect of sleeping on the streets again.
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She found that once-bustling towns and villages had been neglected and abandoned; older people were trapped in their homes, the windows boarded up against the frequent shelling.
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When Mr. Trump landed at the base, he took a 15-minute tour of the damage, driving past buildings that still had boarded-up windows and battered facades.
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On Antigua, many residents were spending the night in nearly 40 shelters because of concerns that their homes, even when boarded up, would topple in the destructive winds.
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Powell, 26, said the staff at her hotel, Island Seas Resort, had already boarded up first- and second-floor windows when she headed to the airport Friday morning.
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Many businesses have shut down since a wave of lootings during a prolonged power outage in March, leaving a cityscape marked by boarded-up storefronts and abandoned buildings.
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Handsome three-story rowhouses (the classic Baltimore style, usually in brick or formstone) quickly give way to abandoned, boarded-up structures and dice games played against a stoop.
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His two-bedroom house in the heart of this Southern state capital is partly boarded up, with no running water or electricity, but he cannot afford much better.
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What's new is the knowledge that health also depends on how people feel when they walk down a tree-lined street rather than one with boarded-up buildings.
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Even Hong Kong itself is covered with marks of the unrest, with shops vandalized and boarded up, and many subway station entrances charcoal-black from fires set by protesters.
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TOTTENHAM COURT road is a little-loved street of furniture stores in central London, made even more drab by boarded-up shops and SALE signs plastered across the windows.
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A few rows down, in an image by Andrew Lichtenstein, a man stands on top of an overturned car outside a boarded-up tenement on the Lower East Side.
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There's the family-as-microcosm thing, hearkening back to those isolated rural families of Chekhov, while the boarded-up-house-plus-contagion-fear recalls Night of the Living Dead.
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Many families live on streets where every third or fourth house is boarded up, and in many strip malls, the only store open for business is the liquor store.
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Across the Caribbean this week, island residents docked boats, emptied grocery stores, and boarded up buildings in preparation for Hurricane Dorian, which became a Category 1 storm on Wednesday.
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LCU opens with shots of dead lawns and boarded-up buildings, and journalist Drew Jubera talks about the first time he drove across the railroad tracks into Scooba, Mississippi.
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The windows in the Shawnee restaurant had to be boarded up last week and the seating area closed after gullible employees followed the instructions of a faux fire marshall.
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In Granite City, which has the vacant lots and boarded-up storefronts that are familiar landmarks in hard-luck steel towns, the sense of economic injustice is deeply ingrained.
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Some of them moved to the abandoned and boarded-up Ascension of Our Lord Church, on a windswept corner of Westmoreland Street about a mile northeast of the tracks.
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Swathes of Paris' affluent Right Bank north of the Seine river were locked down on Saturday, with luxury boutiques boarded up, department stores closed and restaurants and cafes shuttered.
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WASHINGTON — Roaming the streets of the Dupont Circle neighborhood about 20 years ago, Julian Hunt spotted a grimy staircase leading down from the pavement to a boarded-up door.
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The building now boasts a new roof, but still has rotten clapboards, pigeons roosting in the broken eaves and those boarded up windows, a vestige of the early years.
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I did find a stray listing in a guidebook for a hire boat company, but when I tracked down the address all I found was a boarded-up doorway.
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"This is a very racialized atmosphere — the rich, white billionaire going to save the black folks," he said while driving past boarded-up homes and shuttered churches and shops.
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On boarded-up buildings and in public spaces, illustrations and designs depict heavily armed police officers facing off against black-clad protestors with yellow hardhats, umbrellas, and gas masks.
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Picking up the slack, the director of photography, Andrew Commis, communicates despair through melancholy tracking shots of lonely woods and isolated homesteads, boarded-up businesses and packing-up families.
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Where there were once boarded up skylights, the space had been reimagined with backlit LED glass panels, along with sleek modern furniture and enormous glass-rod chandeliers from Italy.
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Your town is boarded up, patriotism gets called racism, your food is full of chemicals, your body is full of pills, you call tech-support and reach someone in India.
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The placid music creates an odd tension with the images of boarded-up schools on Tucson's east side, illustrating what basically boils down to a broken socioeconomic and educational system.
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If a collector can't complete a weekly pick-up because there's simply no garbage at an abandoned and boarded-up house, the city learns where flight and blight are happening.
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Allen Scurry (L), Brent Scurry (C) and Brandon Floyd boarded up windows at an ocean front home in anticipation of Hurricane Matthew in Garden City Beach, South Carolina, Oct. 25.
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The building's 1,600-seat cinema has been boarded up since its last occupant, a Pentecostal church, was forced to leave in 2008 because of fears that its structure was unsound.
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Restaurants and shops were boarded up and neon lights above closed businesses flickered wanly as warm gusts of wind began to weave through the old city's maze of cobblestoned streets.
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The dilapidated and boarded-up house sits on a 2571,800 square foot lot in San Francisco's Bay Area, home to some of the country's largest tech firms and start-ups.
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More than a week after the family was found dead, their home was boarded up and children's drawings with smiley faces and rainbows hung on a wire fence placed outside.
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The city still has its gritty parts — generally in areas at least five blocks from the beach — where some homes are boarded up and where crime is still a problem.
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Vampires at least have the decency not to enter a home uninvited, while zombies from time immemorial have loved nothing better than to shove their arms through boarded-up windows.
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BOARDED UP Schools and businesses throughout the capital of 6 million people were largely closed, and construction workers scrambled to board up shops and restaurants in anticipation of continued riots.
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Often, we'll drive around looking for a house with a dumpster in front of it, yellow grass on the lawn, boarded-up windows, anything that says there's nobody in there.
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"When I go back, I see so many businesses and companies boarded up and people laid off because they didn't keep pace with automation and people didn't upskill," he says.
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Fannie Mae-owned homes in majority-black areas had clearly been neglected, with debris strewn across the properties, weeds on the lawns and windows left wide open or boarded up.
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Boarded up businesses, a flooded deck, an empty harbor In Pass Christian, Mississippi, high tide started to flood the front deck of a coastal restaurant, Sea Level, on Tuesday morning.
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Paisley Journal PAISLEY, Scotland — Between a palatial Baptist church, Europe's biggest, and a 22021th-century abbey, there are five thrift stores, four pawnbrokers and a dozen boarded-up shop fronts.
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Challenging economic times have led to the demise of local establishments like Irene's Market, where an anonymous street artist recently painted onto a boarded-up window a woman kneeling in prayer.
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Most of the windows were boarded up, and only the faint rumble of a crowd and the odd slither of cigarette smoke curling beneath a door frame to gave it away.
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But it is as improbable that such firms will replace all of America's boarded-up shops as that they will offer jobs to every former shop worker, particularly those without training.
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We passed a few homes and businesses, including a local pharmacy, that had boarded-up windows, forcing me to wonder if I was making a mistake by not doing the same.
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America's once-rowdy oil towns, where three years ago strippers could make hundreds of dollars a night from itinerant oilmen, are now full of abandoned trailer parks and boarded-up businesses.
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The life-size-and-a-half statue of Thatcher by sculptor Douglas Jennings would be erected on a climb-proof four-meter plinth and could be quickly boarded up if needed.
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Meanwhile, northwest Detroit — where it seems every other house is boarded up, burned or abandoned — has nearly twice the number of high school age students, 3,343, and just three high schools.
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In Charleston's downtown, stores and restaurants were boarded up with wood and corrugated metal by Thursday morning and about 830,000 people were under mandatory evacuation orders on the South Carolina coast.
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When Matt (AJ Bowen) and his wife, Karen (Susan Burke), visit his long-estranged brother Steve (Scott Poythress) for the holidays, they are unnerved by his reclusiveness and boarded-up windows.
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Near the boarded-up Abel's Tackle Box, a newspaper rack and ice machines rested on their sides, hurled by the storm or the authorities to the southbound shoulder of U.S. 1.
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In the northern stretches of the Bahamas archipelago, hotels closed, residents boarded up homes and officials hired boats to move people from low-lying areas to bigger islands as Dorian approached.
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In the downtown historic district, there is a scattering of high-end restaurants and upscale boutiques, but a few blocks over, the cityscape changes to boarded up buildings and fleabag motels.
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In the city centre rush hour seemed lighter than usual, and in the surrounding suburbs, especially opposition strongholds such as Limete, many Congolese stayed at home and shops were boarded up.
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Monday, as Dorian churned toward Florida and Mr. Trump's boarded-up Mar-a-Lago resort, the president had golfed twice and since Saturday morning pelted the American public with 122 tweets.
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But as I've followed the story of the Moms' struggle, I can't help feeling a familiar, stinging pain in the boarded-up part of my heart where home used to be.
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The entire action—from the battering ram to the door and windows of the vacant house being boarded up—was caught in front of the TV cameras and broadcast on Twitter.
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Most of the storefronts there are boarded up anyway, and one of the few that isn't — home of the mining tour office and museum run by Maggie Bunker — will be soon.
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Stores and banks were boarded up, especially along the route of the main demonstration in Paris, in anticipation of action by "casseurs," or "breakers," who have caused havoc in previous protests.
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Hundreds of Rockport buildings are still in disrepair, including City Hall, which is boarded up from the damage, with city officials now working out of a separate municipal structure that survived.
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Thousands of people were evacuated, buildings were boarded up and schools closed on Mexico's Pacific coast on Tuesday as Hurricane Willa threatened to batter tourist resorts with high winds and heavy rains.
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Eagle got back into his truck and drove around the corner, maneuvering around a pair of rez dogs running loose in the streets, past a low house with its windows boarded up.
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From Redcar in North Yorkshire to Teignmouth in Devon, meanwhile, life is shown as a series of almost Hogarthian vignettes, full of drunkards and dead whales, graffitied pavements and boarded-up shops.
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WINDSOR, Ontario — It is a postapocalyptic streetscape that most Canadians associate with American cities like Detroit: boarded-up houses, burned-out roofs, a mess of scattered shingles, peeling paint and crumbling masonry.
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Within hours, Hodgdon and his partner had hastily boarded up their home and were driving to North Carolina, having the time to store just a few valuable glasswares in an inner closet.
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In his book, Mr. Brook said it was Ms. Rozan who first heard about the Bouffes du Nord, which opened in the 1870s but had fallen into disrepair and was boarded up.
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One afternoon in February, I went with Osipov to the site where the house once stood, where an ugly brick edifice in a field of knee-high snow was now boarded up.
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On Duval Street, most of the bars remain boarded up, but the streets are clear, thanks to a very small team of city public works employees and neighbors with gumption and brawn.
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After the Pathmark on East 125th Street in Harlem was boarded up, its shoppers were not consoled by the Whole Foods under construction a 10-minute walk away on West 125th Street.
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Mr. Gomes said he had learned about the fire only several months later, when the city sent him a notice warning that the property was unsafe and needed to be boarded up.
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Cleaners swept up broken glass, while shop owners boarded up smashed windows on Sunday after the worst unrest in central Paris since violence peaked before Christmas in a weekly series of protests.
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Cut- and covered-up paintings, a boarded-up fireplace, dislodged tree branches, tipped-over furniture, strewn and scattered papers — this is just some of the evidence of destruction wreaked upon the house.
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He was walking down a narrow alleyway lined by boarded-up row houses in West Baltimore that had been a haven for drug sales for generations when a silver Honda Accord pulled up.
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SIDNER: At eight, they notice everything, like the number of times they've had to practice sheltering in place in case there's a shooter, and the number of boarded up houses in their neighborhood.
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Gary Randall, head of the Blue Waters Resort on Antigua's north coast, said the staff had boarded up windows, stripped trees of coconuts and fronds and secured anything that could become a hazard.
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From there, we saw Ringo Starr's first home, a rowhouse boarded up and still slated for renovation by the city with other empty houses in the Welsh Streets neighborhood, but stalled in bureaucracy.
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In the Dominican Republic, officials evacuated some areas near the beachfront town of Cabarete on the north coast, though some residents chose to stay boarded up in their homes and ride it out.
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Businesses were boarded up, and crime reached the point that one author compared Over-the-Rhine to The Wire's fictional Hamsterdam, a designated area where police agreed not to interfere with nonviolent lawbreakers.
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Scores of shops remain boarded up after being trashed or torched, anti-government graffiti is scrawled over bus stops and buildings, and some streets remain littered with broken glass and twisted metal debris.
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But most of the other dwellings were sagging duplexes or four-family apartment buildings with chipping paint and bedsheet curtains, next to vacant lots and empty houses with boarded-up doors and windows.
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The town was still in the process of recovering from Hurricane Matthew, and many homes appeared to be abandoned or in disrepair, their windows boarded up and weeds growing tall in the yards.
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But Patti Cake$' well-realized setting — a pocket of New Jersey defined by its boarded-up strip malls and pervasive apathy — and a stellar central performance give it a charm all its own.
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"Right here in this particular area, we are number one for—and it's nothing to brag about—teen pregnancy, boarded up homes, anything that you can think of that's not the best," Patton said.
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In front of the boarded-up entrance, a memorial to all of the people who lost their lives overflows down the pathway -- a mosaic of pictures, flowers, and art detailed with the victims' names.
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Quebec's provincial legislature was closed in the lead-up to the summit, thousands of civil servants were sent home and several downtown businesses boarded up their windows in anticipation of violence that never came.
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Passage of the hurricane's eye provided a lull for about an hour, during which the skies cleared, the rain and winds ceased and some islanders emerged from boarded-up homes to stroll outside briefly.
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The local realtor said her neighborhood has a lot of boarded up houses due to a new development being built and she often sees people dumping old furniture out there or even doing drugs.
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By the boarded-up Arpit Palace in the Karol Bagh area of New Delhi, wires from adjacent hotels still trail across the street, though staff there told Reuters they were complying with fire regulations.
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And right there, at the gateway of this boarded-up frontier, is a one-story former day-care building newly painted red, green, and black: the Chokwe Lumumba Center for Economic Democracy and Development.
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Now, if you make your way to Alma, you can actually sit on the boarded-up well, but legend says that people who have sat on the well have been known to mysteriously disappear.
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You can spin and rotate the view, looking to your left to see the past in its pastel glory and to your right to see everything yellowed and faded, boarded up and falling down.
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There's a Mexican restaurant where guards like to eat, a roadhouse bar, a lot of boarded-up real estate, a place to buy ice, and a modern library in a glassy, air-conditioned building.
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In Georgia, stores were still boarded up, debris was scattered across roadways, and a sailboat that had been carried away by the storm wound up marooned on the side of Highway 80 in Savannah.
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They contend that houses in working- and middle-class white communities were well tended and ready for sale, while issues like unsecured doors and boarded-up windows were significantly more common in minority neighborhoods.
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They are not unfamiliar with hardship, and they see first hand the signs of real decay — joblessness, boarded up storefronts, flat or falling incomes, failing schools — all with no response from those they elected.
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The front door of Bay Medical Sacred Heart in Panama City was boarded up Friday, and water service hadn't been restored, but a handmade sign directed patients to the emergency room, which remains operational.
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Rynd told Insider that Superfine was converted into a restaurant and bar at the turn of the century, and before that, it was a boarded-up warehouse full of vacuum cleaners and car parts.
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An alleyway late at night, or a boarded up house could be described as "dodgy," but the word can be used to describe anything suspicious looking, like this shoe creeping out of the closet.
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But Neail, sitting on her front porch on the south side of Youngstown on a street that is dotted with boarded-up homes, is one of the many voters toying with unconventional choices this year.
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Get off the Edsel Ford Freeway, meander past boarded-up churches, burned-out warehouses and a Dollar Store, and you arrive at Goodwill Automotive, which has made simple parts for Ford and others for decades.
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ROSARNO, Italy — Rows of boarded-up homes with peeling paint and battered roofs dot the rugged landscape of Calabria, a region in southwest Italy that seems to have been left behind by Europe's modernizing forces.
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As you walk past patches of fenced-up wasteland, a boarded-up pub and renovated red-brick workers' terraced houses, there's an almost palpable sense that the Industrial Revolution began here underneath the polished facades.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - In a dark alleyway no wider than arms' length, a single ladies' shoe is all that remains on the boarded-up doorstep of Prabhu Dhandapani, his wife and their eight-year-old daughter.
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Meanwhile, business investment also slowed sharply, to growth of only 0.3 percent in the quarter from 1.7 percent in the previous quarter as business confidence collapsed amid the unrest that left many Paris shopfronts boarded up.
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She caught the eye of New 42nd Street, a nonprofit established by New York State and New York City to revitalize the street, which by the 1990s was filled with boarded-up buildings and porn theaters.
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To the Editor: Louis Hyman seems O.K. that many town centers are now composed of nail salons, karate studios and boarded-up windows, while "thriving" cities have turned their centers over to luxury condos and stores.
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GIARDINI NAXOS, Italy (Reuters) - Shopkeepers down the hill from where world leaders are meeting boarded up their windows and doors on Friday, bracing for a protest march along the seafront of this normally sleepy Sicilian tourist town.
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"It's almost like we have a silent assassin coming our way," Mayor Brendon M. Barber Sr. of Georgetown, the county seat, said on Wednesday, with the city's boarded-up businesses all but abandoned in anticipation of flooding.
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The rows of brick houses around Skinker looked old and indestructible, but we saw the downside when we headed into the city — many brick houses were boarded up, others had collapsing roofs, smoke stains along the walls.
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Many theaters became second-run houses, showing movies after their wide release, then Spanish exhibitors, and later many were either transformed completely (what was the Rialto Theatre is now an Urban Outfitters), boarded up or torn down.
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Violent protests by anarchists have become an annual occurrence in Seattle on May Day, where several businesses, including Starbucks and Urban Outfitters, boarded up their windows on Sunday to avoid having them broken, according to the Seattle Times.
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BORACAY, Philippines (Reuters) - Volunteers combed near-empty beaches and workers boarded up shops on the island of Boracay on Thursday, as the Philippines' top tourist spot closed for a six-month makeover aimed at rescuing it from ruin.
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Unlike Lacy, who insists on seeing things how they were meant to be, Deaver sees them as they are: Castle Rock is a dying, one-bar, mostly boarded-up, opioid-afflicted town with an improbably high murder rate.
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Twice as Nice Resold Household, the Pottstown Training and Rehabilitation Center, a National Penn bank suggesting that you "consolidate your debt loans," Dollar Beauty and Masjid Al-Haqq — an Islamic center — nestle among empty or boarded up storefronts.
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It sends asylum-seekers to places where housing is cheap and plentiful (houses in Middlesbrough sold for less than half Britain's average in December 2015; many of the houses asylum-seekers now live in were previously boarded up).
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It is as if speaking directly about this reality — vacant lots, boarded-up buildings and paltry economic investment in majority-black neighborhoods — will turn voters off or make even more real the reality that Chicagoans live every day.
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She watched as Russell Wilde and David O'Byrne, who had operated restaurants in some of Dublin's most upscale neighborhoods, took over the boarded-up diner next door and reopened it as the handsome restaurant Richmond in December 2015.
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She was in the passenger seat of a vehicle parked in the middle of Cascade Avenue, a street filled with houses, some of which were boarded up, as well as a Dollar Tree store and a small food mart.
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Chickens pecked around in completely empty, mangled parks; mounds of trash, wet and rotting in the humid sunshine, lay outside now-boarded up windows of Main Street shops that once hawked wares like watches, snacks, scented candles, and rum.
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Many of the buildings are boarded up and destroyed due to asbestos, but in spite of this obvious difficulty, there is this still deep sense of community spirit and defiance against the situation that's put up against the residents.
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The San Pellegrino bottling factory is outside of town; five minutes later, we saw why the water bottling company was there — the old and boarded up Grand Hotel from the days when San Pellegrino Terme was a fashionable spa.
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We drove past spaced-out, low-slung houses and boarded-up businesses — shuttered restaurants, a decrepit gas station — as Iles, an African-American retired lunchroom worker and community activist, guided me toward the muddy banks of the Red River.
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In the tiny, largely boarded-up town of Sun, Va., Roger Bentley, a retired miner, recalled that more than a decade ago, Reynolds Metals Company built a factory here, lured by tax incentives to bring in non-tobacco companies.
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Mr. Karlsen's wife, Christina A. Karlsen, 20123, died on New Year's Day in 1991, when she was trapped by a fire in a boarded up bathroom of the family home in Calaveras County, Mr. Karlsen's lawyer, Richard Esquivel, said.
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Among the many dilapidated buildings they lived in, the most notorious in family legend was 128 Washington Street, a partly boarded-up, condemned building, in which the Davises lived rent-free for a time, often without heat or electricity.
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Though the city has reinvented itself as a center of health care, education and technology, they pointed out the houses that are still boarded up, the old economy and the new bumping up against each other in uneasy coexistence.
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After that, Wilkes-Barre became a city of abandoned buildings and boarded-up store fronts as the remaining residents struggled to find their footing in an economy where the main employers were now government agencies, the local colleges and hospitals.
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Consider an old, boarded up former Masonic Moose lodge in southwest Detroit: The Urban Neighborhood Initiative is redeveloping the 7,000 square foot space into a community center to house youth employment and apprenticeship programs, a legal aid office office, and more.
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A mass exodus from the coast caused extensive traffic jams along the state's highways, while other people boarded up windows and stocked up on food and water ahead of the storm, the effects of which are expected to last for days.
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The 'white noose' that strangles the city Mention Baltimore's black community and you cue images of boarded-up row houses, uncollected trash piles on the street and smoke curling over the skyline from the 2015 riots after Freddie Gray's death.
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Pottery Barn isn't the only furniture shop out in that neighborhood that seems to be worried about robberies and the like -- we got a glimpse of a West Elm store just around the corner that had its windows boarded up too.
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People who had lived in the warehouse or visited described a place rife with fire hazards — a boarded-up upstairs exit, a cobbled-together stairway made partly of wooden pallets, propane tanks used to heat water, and piles of flammable debris.
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What Hasidim have opened in a boarded-up dry cleaner on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, he said, is not a synagogue but a small community center that, like many Jewish institutional buildings, is also used for prayer and study.
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BORACAY, Philippines, April 26 (Reuters) - Volunteers combed near-empty beaches and workers boarded up shops on the island of Boracay on Thursday, as the Philippines' top tourist hotspot closed for a six-month makeover aimed at rescuing it from ruin.
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By the time I arrived in Detroit, nearly a decade ago, this Chinatown strip had been reduced to a faded pagoda-style kiosk and boarded-up storefronts that served mostly as a major hub for street dealers in the Corridor.
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We see ours as a palimpsest of succeeding nows, like wheatpasted posters blithely and unendingly covering up yesterday's posters on boarded-up storefronts, while they measure theirs in workweeks or lunar months or fiscal years or a relentless thud of falling decades.
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Upon hearing the news of his death, people flooded to the late chef's shuttered New York City restaurant Les Halles to pay tribute to him by placing flowers, handwritten notes, and numbers for the suicide hotline outside the boarded up doors and windows.
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With Hurricane Irma approaching at the time, Afiya Frank, 27, who is pregnant, and sister Asha, 29, had packed plenty of food and water and boarded up the large brick house their family had nearly completed on the 62-square-mile island.
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LAS VEGAS — On a drive through this desert city, the blight from the housing collapse of eight years ago can be seen on almost every block: Overgrown yards and boarded-up windows identify the foreclosed and abandoned homes that still pockmark southern Nevada.
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Its fluorescent light cast a nightclub glow on the raw concrete arches that lined the walkways, illuminating the worn paving stones and the boarded-up windows and doors of the former-abbey-turned-French-armed-forces-ministry-turned-soon-to-be-YSL-headquarters.
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While "Window Pain" played—a song about the forgotten victims of gun and knife crime in London—the faces of those who lost their lives to violent crime, and the image of a boarded up Grenfell Tower, lit up on the screen, too.
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From his second-floor porch, I could see fallen trees, boarded-up houses and the mangled roof of the kindergarten-to-eighth grade Julius E. Sprauve School, so badly damaged that government officials are planning to have it rebuilt at another location.
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In a classroom with a barely functioning sink and broken windows boarded up with plywood, Mr. Rollins and his most interested students had begun to function as a workshop when they hit on the idea of using books for both inspiration and material.
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In recent weeks, Hull's local council boarded up a canopy that had provided shelter for several addicts in the city center, but said in a statement that support and accommodation options had been provided for the homeless people who had camped there.
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Across Flagler Avenue, in front of a boarded-up auto body shop, were indignant protesters, furious that Mr. Trump had meddled once again with American policy toward Cuba, making engagement with Cuba just a touch harder for the Americans who wish to visit.
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You might find a high concentration of Dollar General outlets, interspersed with boarded-up Main Street businesses that went under after Walmart came to town, and then the Walmart itself, at the edge of the city, might have shut after incursions from Amazon.
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BAMENDA, Cameroon (Reuters) - Cameroonians in the English-speaking west of the country boarded up their shops, stayed home from work and boycotted the start of the school term on Monday, in protest at what they say is their marginalization by the government.
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While serving a prison sentence in his late teens, he began pouring over art books and when he was released at the age of 21 he started painting on dilapidated structures and boarded-up storefronts in a derelict alley in his hometown.
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As we cross slowing traffic and empty parking lots, he points out local landmarks—mostly other spots in Plymouth where clubs used to stand, but are now boarded up with plywood—before leading me to the towering building on the corner of Union Street.
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But now Indian Road runs through a ghost neighborhood of over 100 boarded-up houses and three abandoned apartment buildings punctuated by a few, lonely occupied homes, a result of a long-running battle between an American businessman and Canadian governments at various levels.
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It's the fact that when you left him behind, speeding down the road past the old Rockland buildings, boarded up and unused now that most of the mad and crazy are outpatients, medicated, wandering the streets and the homeless shelters, you felt a keen elation.
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Like everywhere, there were small dangers: grim grown men who sat at the periphery, watching giggling children with beady eyes; boarded-up or broken rides, like ominous warnings of thrills gone wrong; beggars who beseeched us for the coins we clenched in our fists.
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While the US is shut down, boarded up, and sheltering in place in an all-out effort to defeat the coronavirus and protect our most vulnerable fellow citizens from this gruesome disease, Congress is going about business as usual, just with more hand sanitizer.
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" Before it was boarded up, the account's timeline was thick with all-caps conspiracy theories targeting prominent Democrats, including a recent tweet claiming Bill and Hillary Clinton "torture and sacrifice children" to get at "a drug that can only be found inside the human skull.
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"I feel that I am born again," said a man who passed with his wife and six kids through a checkpoint the YPG had erected to screen the new arrivals In al-Yarubiyah, people ambled past buildings reduced to rubble and reopened boarded-up homes.
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And if you just hop in a car and drive a little south of the main strip where those fancy restaurants that Diane now owns are — the sushi place and the gourmet burger place — pretty soon, those new buildings turn to boarded-up shops.
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TANGSHAN, China (Reuters) - "Push the steel mills out of the city center and turn it into a modern, habitable place to live in," reads a banner hung across the boarded-up offices of Guofeng Iron and Steel Co in the center of Tangshan, China's top steelmaking city.
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He boarded up his entire room with posters, whether it was a full-sized poster of the 1992 Dream Team, one of Vince Carter's between-the-legs dunk at the 2000 dunk contest, or just every single poster he ripped out from his SLAM Magazine collection.
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See CNN's storm tracker Surge 'is what got me worried right now' In Apalachicola, on the Panhandle coast, contractors Lake Smith and Joshua Wolfhagen boarded up windows at the Consulate, a four-suite hotel in a two-story brick building about 60 feet from the waterfront.
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INSEE said higher incomes would help consumer spending rebound 0.5 percent in the first quarter after flatlining at the end of last year in the face of the unrest, which forced many stores in central Paris to be boarded up during the peak holiday shopping period.
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With Texas in mind, it is dispiriting to walk through parts of the Rockaways or low-lying coastal Brooklyn five years after the fact and see houses still boarded up, still getting repaired or only now getting elevated as a means of protection against future storms.
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MURFREESBORO, Tennessee — Storefronts are boarded up in this quiet town of 2000,22010 about a half hour southeast of Nashville as the town awaits an unwelcome visitor: a parade and rally of white supremacists hoping to open up old wounds and inflame lingering anti-immigrant sentiment in the region.
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MURFREESBORO, Tennessee — Storefronts are boarded up in this quiet town of 21990,21 about a half hour southeast of Nashville as the town awaits an unwelcome visitor: a parade and rally of white supremacists hoping to open up old wounds and inflame lingering anti-immigrant sentiment in the region.
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Yet the artworks also contain beauty — as in the gray-black luster that coats "Charred Tulips" (all works are from 2018) — and inspire wonder, as at the edges of "Boarded Up Window, Brooklyn," where Ms. Hegarty has painstakingly blended an illusory derelict wall with the gallery's pristine one.
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Both Mr. Foster's and Ms. Harcourt McKenzie's sensitive, tightly checked performances are critical in this regard; he holds you close to Will by keeping the character boarded up even as she draws you to Tom with anxious discretion and a heartbreaking vocal tremulousness that sometimes speaks louder than words.
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Now, the barn's historic 12-pane window frames, which were previously boarded up, stream in natural light, while lime-washed Douglas fir floors and display tables — crafted by the woodworking duo Studio E&R, which also sells its wares at Garde — add to the space's rustic but refined environment.
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Les Halles had two locations in New York City, the first of which was on Park Avenue and closed down in 2016, and the second FiDi location followed suit in 2017, but on Friday, the signage was still up on both, despite the doors being locked and windows boarded up.
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" Michael Klick, a "Homeland" producer and locations scout — "My memoirs will be called 'My View From the Van,'" he joked — found a Bed-Stuy block dotted with "brownstones that have been fixed up, apartments across the street, and boarded-up buildings: an area in transition, but one that she could afford.
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By Thursday morning, the strike was taking hold across the country: Public transit was highly limited if nonexistent in many areas, most notably in Paris; stores and banks were boarded up; truck drivers were engaged in a slowdown; airlines canceled flights; and the police were preparing for hundreds of protests.
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On the gentrified blocks branching out around the Inner Harbor, row houses are renovated and rented out to young creatives; unfashionable neighborhoods such as West Baltimore's Penn North and Sandtown-Winchester, meanwhile, are home to a significant amount of the city's 17,000 vacant buildings, many of which are boarded up and forgotten.
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Sitting inside the Dairy Godmother, the renowned frozen custard shop she opened 16 years ago on Mount Vernon Avenue, she traced out what was: the boarded-up bank now open for business, a biker bar down the street and the drug deals that would happen behind a nearby rent-a-room place.
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Since July 22, 2011, Y-Block and an adjacent building, known as H-Block, have sat largely empty, their windows boarded up or covered by screens, a ghostly reminder of the car-bomb attack by the right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik that tore through the government quarter, killing eight people and damaging the buildings.
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By contrast, the homes surrounding the church on Muirland are modest little boxes in various states of entropy — many occupied and in reasonable condition, others a bit rag-tag and wanting some upkeep, some burned completely out or boarded up — and of course the vacant lots that hold only the memory of a long-gone structure.
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The city is certainly in the midst of a post-Katrina upswing, with plenty of new dining and drinking spots (the St. Roch food market, Latitude 29, for instance), but there are still boarded-up houses in many neighborhoods and a kind of lingering sadness about the hurricane's most lasting impact, which was a loss of community.
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My flat was placed around boarded up pubs, an abandoned cutlery factory with put-through windows, and the general scars that some collapsed industry can leave on a city, but all these spots sat side-by-side with thriving night spots such as Gatecrasher and Niche, giving each corner of the city a strange concoction of life and death.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads When I first started hanging out in the East Village in the mid-1970s, it was loaded with unofficial monuments to an older Lower East Side: Boarded up Yiddish theaters and a largely unused bocce ball court on Houston Street were reminders of the days when an immigrant community flourished.
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Now, the area is eerily dead; most of the restaurants and bars were boarded up even before the government closed the area off last summer to dissuade protesters fired up about the ongoing trash crisis (the country's dumps are overflowing and trash has been piling up in unofficial sites around the country since last summer, sparking serious public health concerns and violent protests).
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Mississippi River 44 55 The Field House Museum 55 Street data from OpenStreetMap By The New York Times All of the St. Louis neighborhoods, some boarded up, some so grand that they astounded even my unimpressible ex-realtor husband, Jack, from Philadelphia, and some of which were regular middle class streets, bumped up against one another, faded into one another.
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