In recent weeks, the world's busiest thoroughfares have become desolate.
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My first two hotels were on thoroughfares named for Davis.
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A giant sinkhole has swallowed one of the major thoroughfares.
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Kayakers paddled down thoroughfares normally filled with cars and bikes.
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Crowds set fire to tires and blocked thoroughfares with trees.
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Protesters gathered on Avenida Paulista, one of the city's main thoroughfares.
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Monitor popular ant thoroughfares and strategically deploy baits along those routes.
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Walkways are set up overnight along main thoroughfares that risk flooding.
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But the word could just as easily describe the area's thoroughfares.
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Multifamily housing is also popping up near highways and main thoroughfares.
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Sydney, Australia's biggest city, has installed concrete barricades in main pedestrian thoroughfares.
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Much-traveled thoroughfares MAIN ROADS I hope I didn't leave any out.
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Cities could designate drone highways and restrict laser charging to those aerial thoroughfares.
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The 2020 area only covers 3 roads, and they're not particularly busy thoroughfares.
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Sydney, Australia's biggest city, has also installed concrete barricades in main pedestrian thoroughfares.
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Protesters blockaded key thoroughfares and occupied the streets in the city for 79 days.
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There were the same broad thoroughfares and marketplaces, grand religious buildings and crowded slums.
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In changing thoroughfares into shared places, Dutch designers and engineers learned three lessons: 296.
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Main thoroughfares of the city were festooned with banners and posters welcoming him home.
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Throngs of people poured into major thoroughfares for a march marking Human Rights Day.
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Cooking pots, set deep into stone counters, lined the main thoroughfares of ancient Rome.
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Students from Rajshahi University protested Siddique's killing, demonstrating along main thoroughfares, and blocking traffic.
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Some streets could be reconfigured to more imaginative uses than high-volume thoroughfares, he suggests.
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Nicknamed Little Tehran, it is one of the main thoroughfares of the Persian-American community.
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Shipping containers were placed across major thoroughfares by the Punjab government to restrict their movements.
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The lights illuminate once-proud houses on quiet streets and decrepit structures along main thoroughfares.
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Plumes of smoke billowed across major thoroughfares and between some of the world's tallest skyscrapers.
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Plumes of smoke billowed across major thoroughfares and in between some of the world's tallest skyscrapers.
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The militants initially targeted the police traffic post on Jalan Thamrin, one of Jakarta's main thoroughfares.
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Riot police were deployed at stations, while protesters set up roadblocks and barricades on major thoroughfares.
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For 79 days in 2014, thousands of protesters set up camp in Hong Kong's main thoroughfares.
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LOS ANGELES — Although the traffic was abysmal, it was not the usual gridlock on city thoroughfares.
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The movie's shots of Los Angeles thoroughfares in the '50s and '60s exert a nostalgic tug.
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Harrison Boulevard is one of the most prestigious — and pricey — thoroughfares in BoiseA local blog describes Harrison Boulevard as "one of Boise&aposs most picturesque thoroughfares," and it&aposs also one of the most prestigious parts of the city to own a home, according to Marshall.
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Bulldozers have carved thoroughfares through a honeycomb of ancient alleyways, used as hiding places by the Shirazis.
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It is one of the deadliest thoroughfares in the city, according to police reports and traffic experts.
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Well-known thoroughfares can attract luxury-goods firms that like having flagship stores to advertise their brand.
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At a minimum, work out where the main thoroughfares and parks will go as the city expands.
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Whole Foods, a pricey supermarket, will soon open on 125th Street, one of Harlem's main commercial thoroughfares.
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He noted that the bar was tucked away in the cinema, recessed from the main shopping thoroughfares.
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This little bar, tucked away on one of Williamsburg's busiest thoroughfares since 2003, is easy to miss.
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During the protests, thousands of students and other demonstrators blocked major thoroughfares in Hong Kong for months.
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The thoroughfares along the river have been mostly closed to traffic and reborn as lively pedestrian promenades.
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Only fully-autonomous, zero-emission vehicles will be allowed on the main thoroughfares, according to the company.
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In each place, huge numbers of people filled thoroughfares, chanting "Death to America" and weeping with emotion.
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He was one of the most distinguished-looking men that appeared on the thoroughfares of the capital.
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Thousands of Park's supporters waved South Korean flags as they stood on main thoroughfares near the Constitutional Court.
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The movement restrictions were relaxed in parts of Srinagar on Monday, with substantial traffic on some major thoroughfares.
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Behind the main thoroughfares, a foul stench lingers in the air as raw sewage trickles down muddy slopes.
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Boats motored down main thoroughfares in small cities like Central, passing homes with water up past the windows.
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Now its abandoned thoroughfares look like a rented backdrop in need of a cast — and millions of extras.
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"We've tried to keep up the major thoroughfares, but there are sections that are pretty bad," he said.
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A former real estate agent, Younger used to have an office on one of Squirrel Hill's main thoroughfares.
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Catalan authorities may also erect some permanent barriers and turn some streets into pedestrian-only thoroughfares, Forn said.
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Now, the cheeky image hangs over one of Mexico City's main thoroughfares connecting the city to its suburbs.
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Police out up checkpoints on main thoroughfares leading to the shrine and hospitals were placed on alert, officials said.
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Both of these cities received radical makeovers at this time, with ostentatious, oversized thoroughfares built on the Parisian model.
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The theater is wedged among banks, corporate buildings, and historic churches on Broad Street, one of Newark's major thoroughfares.
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Container trucks and tankers take up several lanes of traffic on the major thoroughfares close to the city's ports.
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After Vinegar Hill was demolished, the land was vacant for several years, separated from downtown by wide new thoroughfares.
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These conduits would make running fiber along major thoroughfares much easier, saving taxpayers a fortune over the longer haul.
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"I love that it's off the beaten path," away from major thoroughfares, said Mr. DiLollo, who sells financial services.
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It has new bus lines, plans for the Williamsburg Bridge and major thoroughfares, expanded subway service, and ferry routes.
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According to Metro UK, the two swans have vandalized property, harassed vehicles on public thoroughfares, and even attacked children.
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Outside the historic district, apartment buildings can be found on larger thoroughfares; the main commercial strip runs along Cortelyou Road.
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The History Museum does tourists and locals a favour with its detailed account of one of the capital's main thoroughfares.
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Black bears dip into suburban swimming pools, coyotes cross major thoroughfares, and mountain lions dart across isolated stretches of freeway.
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Before the West arrived, there were twice as many T-junctions and dead ends in Tokyo as there were thoroughfares.
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Eight thousand far-right protesters were marching through the city center, filling its thoroughfares with a steady stream of anger.
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The ban will also be tested in certain often-jammed thoroughfares in Brooklyn and Queens, like Flatbush and Roosevelt Avenues.
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Traffic was snarled on some major thoroughfares, subway stations were shut down and the clashes continued deep into the evening.
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On the dim thoroughfares of Eureka, Humboldt County's largest population center, there are scant signs of a massive, ubiquitous industry.
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In 1987, Zurich residents began voting on proposals to remove cars from Limmatquai, one of its major car-choked thoroughfares.
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Such meagre funding for fresh tarmac would be less worrying if Italy's thoroughfares were in as good condition as, say, Germany's.
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Taliban fighters maintain strongholds close to the thoroughfares, however, and during recent skirmishes, some police checkpoints on Highway 3 were overrun.
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Certain intersections guarantee better viewing than others: Major thoroughfares, such as 14th, 34th, 83nd and 57th streets, are the most ideal.
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First, we must better protect known pedestrian thoroughfares such as Las Ramblas in Barcelona and the Promenade de Anglais in Nice.
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They closed even major thoroughfares to vehicles, including scooters, and placed checkpoints at nearly each approaching intersection to search pedestrians' bags.
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Just below Pilot's trendy new office space in SoHo thrums one of New York City's densest thoroughfares of fiber optic cable.
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In Hanoi, North Korean and U.S. flags flew along main thoroughfares and a bridge crossing the Red River into the city.
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Not surprisingly, two of the states with the highest murder rates, Acre and Ceará, are thoroughfares along the main smuggling routes.
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The vehicles will operate on a fixed route along the San Carlos Street and Stevens Creek Boulevard thoroughfares, the companies said.
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A police cordon was in place around Parliament Square, cutting off cars along major thoroughfares in the heart of the capital.
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There are rows upon rows of restaurants lining the main thoroughfares of Eighth Avenue and 23rd Street, waiting to lure you in.
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Transportation officials said fewer than half of the city's neighborhood streets had been cleared, compared with about 90 percent of major thoroughfares.
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Its rendition of 1980s Japan is gorgeous, and packed with detail, from the neon-lit thoroughfares to the narrow, garbage-lined streets.
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Police removed metal barriers and other blockades from some thoroughfares in a bid to clear them ahead of businesses reopening on Tuesday.
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READ MORE: Tributes pour in for Thai King Nearby Charoen Krung Road, one of the city's oldest thoroughfares, was packed with mourners.
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The country's 40m or so motorbikes terrify pedestrians, but can thunder 10-abreast along thoroughfares as well as worm down dark alleyways.
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Protesters are occupying major roads, rail tracks, bridges and tunnels, cutting off critical thoroughfares for commuters and commerce on a daily basis.
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In Hong Kong, storefronts are shuttered, critical thoroughfares for commuters and commerce are cut off and university semesters are being cut short.
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It also added a connection — via bicycle paths and trails — to the neighborhoods between two major thoroughfares, Memorial Drive and Allen Parkway.
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With the hulking Livingston Mall and two busy thoroughfares lined with stores, Livingston, an Essex County bedroom community of 30,000, where Gov.
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Police were overwhelmed as convoys of blue and white taxis operated by PT Blue Bird and PT Express Transindo Utama blocked thoroughfares.
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This translates to thoroughfares partially or wholly dedicated to non-automobile transit, or some hybrid of public transportation, bicycles, and foot traffic.
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The financial district is about 30 minutes away by car, and express busses run along Geary Boulevard, one of the neighborhood's thoroughfares.
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The late-153s house is among a dwindling number of grand mansions that lined one of this port city's most prestigious thoroughfares.
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Patrolling the thoroughfares were the sheathbills, strange snow-white birds with the body of a pigeon and the habits of a vulture.
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Aerial footage showed people packing thoroughfares and sidestreets, a welcome show of national unity for the government after deadly protests in November.
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One particular three-mile divot-riddled byway connecting two paved thoroughfares is the address for some of the valley's best-regarded restaurants.
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Holst's office had a view of the cobbled alley, just off one of the main thoroughfares, where the zoo conducts outdoor dissections.
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Police warned commuters that a number of the city's main thoroughfares, including Kildare Street, the seat of parliament, remained closed to traffic.
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Many autonomous vehicles are limited to certain roads like highways or main thoroughfares, conditions like sunshine and dry roads, and geo-fenced areas.
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Snapshot: Above, one of the busiest thoroughfares in Copenhagen, where nearly half of all journeys to work and school take place on bicycle.
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Demonstrators shut down parts of Avenida Paulista, one of São Paulo's main thoroughfares, as Ms. Rousseff was grilled by senators on Monday night.
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Along Red Bank's main commercial thoroughfares are dozens of restaurants, cafes, shops, clubs and galleries, as well as numerous banks and brokerage houses.
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Russian forces without identifying insignia, along with military vehicles, began to appear on the thoroughfares of Crimea, home of Russia's Black Sea fleet.
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An intersection of two busy thoroughfares, the afternoon was bustling with children returning from summer camp crisscrossing with people darting to the subway.
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Most major thoroughfares had been plowed by Sunday afternoon, but secondary streets would probably not be clear until sometime on Monday, officials said.
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By nightfall, major thoroughfares were covered in broken glass and the smell of tear gas mixed with the smoke from the burning cars.
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The largely peaceful and orderly sit-ins paralyzed several major thoroughfares for 79 days but failed to win the protesters any political concessions.
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Throughout its 700-odd pages, we crisscross the city's grand thoroughfares, its former ghetto and city walls, its cafes, brothels, schools and cinema.
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When traversing one of the "scare zones" that cover most of the major thoroughfares around Universal Studios' central lagoon, don't be looking down.
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For shopping or just a casual stroll, no place in New Orleans is quite like Magazine Street, one of the city's main thoroughfares.
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Areas now used for parking and thoroughfares would become public plazas, and buildings on the periphery would be developed for shops and restaurants.
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But the limited nature of the restriction, affecting only a couple of the city's main thoroughfares, drew criticism from locals and environmental campaigners.
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She dances to the fuzzy rumba beats that blast out of almost every bar; her noisy thoroughfares are full of hopeful, chattering people.
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The aisles and exits double as thoroughfares for the actors, who restlessly climb up and down the steps, occasionally plopping down beside a spectator.
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In the residential area of Sheung Wan, many people were left stranded after the subway suspended west-bound services and major thoroughfares were closed.
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King streets in cities such as Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tampa, Florida, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, are prominent thoroughfares and have a large commercial presence.
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In Atlanta, ongoing protests over the deaths in Baton Rouge and Minneapolis drew crowds of thousands and have shut down major thoroughfares for hours.
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Teams of elderly workers used shears to carefully cut the grass alongside main thoroughfares and painted the base of trees a crisp, bright white.
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Aerial pictures of hundreds of thousands of beachgoers hit the national airwaves and shocked people in other states where even major thoroughfares were empty.
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Tens of thousands of Hasidic men crammed the thoroughfares of Borough Park, Brooklyn, for the funeral for Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, a revered Orthodox rabbi.
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The complex is a landmark on Paseo de la Reforma, one of the city's principal thoroughfares, and includes foreign diplomatic officials among its residents.
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Before the NQ came to be known as such, Oldham Street and the surrounding thoroughfares were populated by your run of the mill retailers.
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For an especially bad event, a city like Mobile, Alabama, with relatively few major thoroughfares, needs a few days to get everyone up and out.
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US law currently prohibits flying drones within 5 miles of any airport without contacting its control tower, with tighter restrictions for busy thoroughfares like Newark.
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Such exorbitant costs have led to an oversupply of space on the strip and throughout many of the borough's other thoroughfares, according to Cushman & Wakefield.
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Protests continued throughout Wednesday, with the country's high-speed rail network suffering delays, while motorways throughout Catalonia and many of Barcelona's main thoroughfares remain closed.
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During those weeks, thoroughfares turned into colorful and immersive public art exhibitions, as protest sites bloomed with sculptures, installations, banners and other emblems of dissent.
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Early this year, amid opposition and racial tension, the Richmond City Council decided to rename Boulevard, one of its most historic thoroughfares, after Arthur Ashe.
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It is a prelude to the West Indian American Day Parade, an enormous gathering along major Brooklyn thoroughfares that attracts up to two million celebrators.
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While visiting the vibrant metropolis recently on business, I was pleased to discover a gem of a hotel located a bit outside the main thoroughfares.
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Aerial footage showed crowds packed thoroughfares and sidestreets in central Tehran, a welcome show of national unity for the government after deadly protests in November.
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Both PolyU and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) are strategically located near major thoroughfares, the blockage of which caused disruption and travel chaos.
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LIFE AS A RUNWAY Bleecker Street and lower Broadway may get the downtown buzz, but Madison Avenue remains the swankiest of the city's retail thoroughfares.
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Police and work crews removed metal barriers and other blockades from some thoroughfares in a bid to clear them ahead of businesses reopening on Tuesday.
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As Maduro addressed a military parade on Avenida Bolivar, one of the capital's main thoroughfares, the sound of an explosion suddenly scattered civilians and soldiers alike.
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No helmets, though, which for casual riders are probably a good idea given how crowded our main thoroughfares are and how inattentive most drivers here are.
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The city's first $3 billion MRT system opened in March, running 8 kilometers (5 miles) partially underground from the south to central Jakarta along main thoroughfares.
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" He added, "We don't expect this kind of thing to happen because there are no large thoroughfares, no big avenues or boulevards going through our neighborhood.
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Even if you're not from around here, you may have either experienced it yourself, or you've had equivalent misery by way of your own local thoroughfares.
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That decision led to the huge street protests that shut down several major thoroughfares in Hong Kong for two and a half months beginning that September.
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Playa del Carmen is a small place—too small, some might say, to accommodate the throngs of people that descend on the major thoroughfares during BPM.
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Last Thursday, hundreds of Yale students and activists from New Haven congregated at a prominent intersection near the center of campus, shutting down two major thoroughfares.
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Statelier and sterner than "American Surfaces," these photographs translate the thoroughfares of Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Miami Beach and especially America's burgeoning suburbs into meticulously composed tableaus.
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From the main thoroughfares, it looks like the city is bustling again: Offices and schools are open, retail is up and running, and freeways are jammed.
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It was a role that came naturally to the former real estate agent, who used to have an office on one of Squirrel Hill's main thoroughfares.
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The sheer quantity of street art and graffiti on Melbourne's thoroughfares was something I'd never seen, and it left me curious about the broader art scene.
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Strikes shut down transit systems (see: Paris and Buenos Aires), and marches consume neighborhoods and popular thoroughfares (Santiago's Providencia neighborhood, Barcelona's Via Laietana, Hong Kong's Kowloon).
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Homes between the two thoroughfares include Cape Cods, ranch houses, English Tudors, colonials and craftsman-style dwellings with porches, most on 60-by-100-foot lots.
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A Sunday-morning ceremony at the war memorial known as the Cenotaph (a religiously neutral monument in one of London's central thoroughfares) will feature generic Anglican prayers.
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But I see that happening in the main thoroughfares and in the smaller areas, you can have an individual-sized vehicle, maybe two instead of three people.
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"When you get off the freeways and off the main thoroughfares, you could be in water 10 to 15 feet deep," Fire Department spokesman Jay Evans said.
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Its pollution was denser than Hangzhou's and its six- and eight-lane thoroughfares were lined with seemingly interminable high-rise apartment complexes at varying degrees of completion.
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The best way to do so: Rise early, and find a spot along the parade's path on Fifth or Seventh Avenue, the wider thoroughfares on the route.
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The town hall installed mist showers in busy spots, sprayed the hot asphalt on main thoroughfares with water and opened up several swimming pools at no charge.
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Its streets are lined with single-family homes and low-rise apartment buildings, while its main boulevards and thoroughfares feature strip-mall businesses and fast-food restaurants.
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The West Florissant Avenue Great Streets Master Plan is a 200-page document that reimagines the despotic stretch of concrete as one of the country's prettiest thoroughfares.
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In an industry with high fixed costs—spent on marketing, but also on eye-watering rents for shops on flashy thoroughfares—selling more translates into better margins.
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A new online tool called "New York City (& the World) Without Highways" allows you to digitally remove New York's thoroughfares with a mere click on a map.
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Currently Autopilot, the semi-autonomous driver assistance system, only works on highways and major thoroughfares and requires full driver attention and hands on the wheel at all times.
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Among his paintings, which feature colorful brushstrokes, are ones showing demonstrators' tents occupying major thoroughfares and a flower-etched tribute to a protester who fell to his death.
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The debate: CBP runs checkpoints like the one where Rosa Maria was detained along major thoroughfares and in other areas in the 100-mile zone throughout the Southwest.
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In 2016, the municipal government ordered curbs on private cars governed by whether their license-plate numbers were odd or even, to reduce traffic jams on main thoroughfares.
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The company touts that these thoroughfares will be able to move 10 times the number of vehicles of ordinary highways and can include public transit and delivery vehicles.
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On April 2, tens of thousands of black-hatted and black-garbed Hasidic men from every major sect crammed the thoroughfares of Borough Park, Brooklyn, for his funeral.
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The police urged people to avoid the area around Trump Tower during Mr. Trump's visit, when numerous streets will be closed around one of the city's busiest thoroughfares.
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It has what is perhaps the best collection of well-preserved colonial buildings in Africa, as well as a Bismarck Street and other thoroughfares named after German figures.
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It did not take long for Burtynsky to find the vantage point he wanted: an oblique angle on a cluster of buildings at the intersection of two thoroughfares.
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In Shaheen Bagh in New Delhi, hundreds of women have braved the winter cold to shut down one of India's busiest thoroughfares, sleeping on thin sheets of cardboard.
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The large banner bearing the name Jalisco New Generation Cartel was spotted by local media on Tuesday hanging from an overpass in one of the city's principal thoroughfares.
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On Tuesday, a mudslide forced the closing of parts of the A2 highway in Switzerland, including the Gotthard Tunnel, one of the main thoroughfares running through the Alps.
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In this episode of Streets by VICE, we explore Austin's rich and rather strange cultural history through the lens of one of its most iconic thoroughfares: Sixth Street.
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Police have asked stores on the Champs-Elysees and other major shopping thoroughfares to close, and remove outdoor furniture, while a number of football matches have also been rescheduled.
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Bringing Pokemon, a title beloved by children and adults of all ages, to the real world allows you to recreate the in-game world in parks and thoroughfares everywhere.
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Here's what one of the main thoroughfares in Dubai looked like in 22, prior to the discovery of oil: As it did for many Gulf countries, oil changed everything.
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The roofs have collapsed and old thoroughfares where traders once shouted their wares are now narrow, overgrown lanes between neatly stacked piles of stone under a hot white sky.
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The scenes instantly recalled the start of the so-called Umbrella Movement protests of 2014, in which thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators blocked major Hong Kong thoroughfares for months.
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But it's a fairly pedestrian-friendly area with new bike paths and better sidewalks in the works along major thoroughfares like Folsom Street, and easy access to the waterfront.
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It sits on busy Washington Avenue, one of the main thoroughfares lined with tourist shops, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, and the boutique Art Deco hotels that make South Beach famous.
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The city has also deployed an army of street sweepers to spruce up the city, planted sports-themed gardens along major thoroughfares, and widened pedestrian sidewalks near event venues.
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His Smart Streets initiative proposed converting central thoroughfares to allow two-way traffic, and adding bicycle lanes, trees and on-street parking, all to slow vehicles and encourage pedestrians.
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Collingwood used to be known for its working-class pubs and rough music venues and now, looking down its main thoroughfares, it's more boutique cocktail bars and artisanal retail.
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Beijing's impending move has galvanized the large coalition of protesters who captured the world's attention during their 79-day occupation of major thoroughfares in Hong Kong in late 2014.
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The militants sabotaged much of Qayyara's oil infrastructure before fleeing ahead of the government advance, sending black smoke into the sky for days and oil pouring into main thoroughfares.
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The bomber was the only person killed in the explosion, which struck near a theater on Habib Bourguiba avenue, one of the city's central thoroughfares, at 1:55 p.m.
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I walked out onto Bainbridge Street, one of the city's great thoroughfares, and watched the variety of human life teeming in the streets and it was only seven o'clock.
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Despite all its museums, stately architecture and polished thoroughfares — or perhaps because of them — the Upper East Side's reputation is as a stuffy, cushioned cloister of the wealthy and unadventurous.
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The intersection was among the Bronx's busier drug markets, just far enough from the hubbub of the projects and the police stationed there, and a quick hop from several thoroughfares.
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Officially, rickshaws are banned on major thoroughfares like Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue, but there they were, in vast phalanxes, their bicycle bells pealing above the roar of the traffic jam.
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But strolling along Teverskaya Street, one of the main thoroughfares leading to Red Square, any such concerns were the last thing on the mind of soccer fans like Pierre Louvat.
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Many magazines rely on street vendors to sell single issues to commuters stuck in the notoriously slow Lagos traffic along thoroughfares like Obafemi Awolowo Way in the city's Ikeja section.
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"We would rather witness the dust and mud of Broadway, with its business and bustle, than the Quaker neatness and the Quaker quiet of most Philadelphia thoroughfares," this "Visitor" wrote.
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A rash of new foreign language signs has appeared in Vilnius's narrow thoroughfares honouring ethnic minorities that have inhabited the city, not least a Jewish community destroyed by Nazi occupiers.
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The war zone extends to sidewalks, a convenient shortcut for impatient motorbike drivers, and pedestrians and food cart vendors disrupt the traffic flow even more by illegally crossing the thoroughfares.
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Ms. Rosenthal said that the soot and particles from idling lead to higher risks of asthma, heart disease and cancer, particularly in low-income communities that serve as truck thoroughfares.
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Beijing resembles a ghost town, with main thoroughfares and tourist spots almost deserted, as the country has sealed off cities, cancelled flights and closed factories, cutting supply lines to global businesses.
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Permanent LEDs had been ordered to replace the broken sulfur fixtures; in the meantime, mobile arrays of large klieg lights had been set up in the courtyards and along the thoroughfares.
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Customs and Border Protection runs checkpoints along major thoroughfares leading away from the border in the Southwest, where travelers and vehicles are checked for legal authorization to enter the United States.
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After a few days, she became disillusioned with the main body of protesters who had set up camp on the thoroughfares around the Legislative Council building and the main government offices.
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"I've been many times to the ETECSA shop to ask if they can give us home access," said Yuneisy Galindo, 28, at a Wi-Fi hotspot on one of Havana's thoroughfares.
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The insights could help us build better corridors and thoroughfares that make it easier for us to get from place to place, and just maybe make holiday travelers a little jollier.
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Our proposal, which could be applied to many main Interstate highways and local limited-access thoroughfares, is to begin turning carpool lanes into autonomous vehicle lanes as early as next year.
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Besides Parmer Lane, another one of the main thoroughfares through this part of town is Highway 183, known as Research Boulevard, which is where Texas Instruments built its campus in 1969.
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They gathered at police cordons stretched across the city's most trafficked thoroughfares, boulevards vacant at the height of the holiday season, and filmed the red lights of scores of emergency vehicles.
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Drivers blasted their horns in the streets while youthful masses waving national flags paraded along the thoroughfares of Irbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq.
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Barring a few major highways, most of Namibia is linked by jarring dirt thoroughfares of variable quality, which means a four-wheel-drive is a requisite if you're brave enough to drive.
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Routing vehicles away from cities' thoroughfares while they're awaiting their next passenger could involve infrastructural solutions paired with tech solutions, like waiting lots near popular downtown pick-up and drop-off points.
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I started taking long, aimless drives down major city-spanning thoroughfares like Beverly Boulevard and through suburban neighborhoods like Glendale, searching for glass bricks that I could capture with my camera phone.
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Small groups in various of parts Caracas maintained sporadic clashes with troops throughout the afternoon and into the evening, in some places setting up barricades of tires and burning trash along thoroughfares.
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CAIRO — There is a district close to the center of downtown Cairo that extends from the banks of the Nile about one kilometer into one of the city's most significant historic thoroughfares.
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In response, Copenhagen went in a different direction than Amsterdam, making some roads in the center car-free while rebuilding major thoroughfares to give pedestrians and bicycles equal access to the city.
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While the waterfront strip and the thoroughfares off the Old Port district are packed with pedestrians, Middle Street and a few streets around it see less foot traffic and are shopping gems.
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The bible of the history of New York City's thoroughfares is most likely "The Street Book: An Encyclopedia of Manhattan's Street Names and Their Origins," by Henry Moscow, published four decades ago.
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One of its main thoroughfares, Pratt Street, which runs along the harbor and today teams with tourists and ball game fans, is where many traders in human flesh built their slave pens.
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Rescuers raced to vehicles stuck in flooding on a major interstate Thursday night and to help other motorists trapped on other thoroughfares as slashing rain -- accompanied by hail and lightning -- deluged the region.
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He also does "move tasks" for $216 each, riding a scooter from an obscure place to a more in-demand spot near public transit hubs or along walkable thoroughfares with well-trafficked businesses.
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Police shut down major thoroughfares and ordered evacuations in the area after the barges came unmoored and threatened to crash through an Interstate 40 bridge and a dam on the bloated Arkansas River.
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How the remarkable attack unfolded The military parade took over most of the Avenida Bolivar, one of the main thoroughfares in Caracas, and the president's speech came toward the end of the event.
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Day after day, in town after town, swollen rivers have transformed thoroughfares into canals and homes into sodden islands, in some cases with only the roof or the windows peeking above the water.
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At first she was self-conscious, afraid she'd attract unwelcome curiosity pushing a suspension-pod-size crate through the station's thoroughfares, but the crowds split and streamed around her without contact or comment.
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Traffic was allowed on main thoroughfares but many side roads, where officials live and work, remained closed and government buildings like the Parliament and Mr. Hussein's old Republican Palace remained under heavy guard.
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CreditCreditDaniel Arnold for The New York Times Way up in the northwest stretches of the Bronx, tucked between two major thoroughfares, you'll find 21 acres of a precious New York City amenity: quiet.
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When he narrowly lost his first presidential bid in 2006, he contested the result and organized a sit-in that closed one of the main thoroughfares in Mexico City for weeks, causing chaos.
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You'd never know any of this from the road: per the historic preservation section of Santa Fe's land use code, any solar installation in the historic district must be invisible from public thoroughfares.
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Noé Isauro Beltrán, 39, had been in the middle of an ordinary day at the auto repair shop where he works when cartel gunmen opened fire at a crossing of two main thoroughfares.
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FORAGING With its grand thoroughfares and stately 19th-century buildings, Stockholm's Ostermalm neighborhood, in the eastern part of the city about a 10-minute walk from the city center, is elegant and refined.
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He charmed everyone: a local businesswoman selling Facebook-supported Wi-Fi access, Nigerian entertainment stars, even President Muhammadu Buhari, who was particularly impressed that Zuckerberg took a run on the city's public thoroughfares.
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When he celebrated his 60th year on the throne in June 2006, hundreds of thousands of Thais lined Bangkok's thoroughfares to catch a glimpse of the monarch and to celebrate the milestone with him.
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Try before you buy and decide if you want to scoot like Space Man Spiff down the thoroughfares and boulevards of your town or plod like a bold neanderthal while the future zooms by.
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Add in the record 59.7 million visitors who are expected to descend on the city this year, up from 48.8 million in 248, and it is a recipe for thoroughfares packed like sardine cans.
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Barrio Salamanca remains the city's most upscale shopping area, and its main thoroughfares — Serrano, Velázquez and Ortega y Gasset — still offer the biggest international and national fashion brands, many in newly refurbished flagship stores.
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It's a grassy expanse buffering the main thoroughfares of Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Adeline Street from which the BART tracks, positioned aboveground in Oakland, dip underground as they enter Berkeley city limits.
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That sense of impotence has been stoked by the failure of the Umbrella Movement in 2014, which sought freer elections but won no concessions after peacefully occupying key thoroughfares for more than two months.
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Among the smaller costs: Most people in cities from Bangalore to Brooklyn cannot afford to keep a car, and yet our cities routinely turn over the majority of public thoroughfares to those who can.
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The progress also played out somewhat unevenly across the city: Queens, long a hot spot of dangerous thoroughfares threading through residential neighborhoods, had the fewest number of traffic fatalities it has ever recorded — 59.
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Mikhail T. Kalashnikov, designer of the AK-47, the Soviet rifle that has become the world's most widespread assault weapon, was unveiled on Tuesday in the middle of one of central Moscow's busiest thoroughfares.
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Thunberg recently led 4 million people in a strike, filling town squares and main thoroughfares all over the world to demand that more be done to curb emissions in the face of climate catastrophe.
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Protesters had spilled out from Victoria Park, the designated rally area on Sunday, and streamed onto major thoroughfares towards the city's financial centre, chanting for the city's Beijing-backed leader Carrie Lam to step down.
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A fire that started underneath one section of I-85 Thursday evening just north of downtown led to the collapse of all five northbound lanes, shutting down traffic on one of the Southeast's major thoroughfares.
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The size of some of the protests appeared to shrink by early evening Friday, mostly comprised of smaller groups and unable to block off major thoroughfares as had happened in the last round of protests.
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Downtown plazas and the median strips of thoroughfares are crammed with temporary houses made of plywood, plastic sheets and corrugated steel, thrown together after heavy rains caused the worst flooding in more than three decades.
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We were all coming off the high of surviving one of the most dangerous thoroughfares in the world, but for some even the thrills of Death Road weren't enough of a rush on their own.
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From the principal thoroughfares of Main Street and Teaneck Road, New Jersey Transit buses reach the Port Authority terminal in Manhattan in less than 45 minutes; the fare is $4.50 one way or $148 monthly.
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All of the four bombings in Austin occurred in residential neighborhoods near highways and major thoroughfares, suggesting to investigators that the suspect may be doing significant getaway planning and may not even live in Austin.
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In Tanta, posters for Mr. Sisi were plastered all over the main thoroughfares of the city, which is famed for its mashabek, a sticky yellow swirl of sugar and flour, and its magnificent Sufi mosque.
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Flames lapped over the the highway barriers of one of Los Angeles' busiest thoroughfares Wednesday as firefighters struggled to contain the blaze, threatening billions of dollars worth of property as smoke blocked out the sun.
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Defined by six north-south thoroughfares, the grid-structured landscape is dominated by multifamily houses, interrupted by older midsize apartment buildings, newer condominium developments, a few high-rise towers and the rare single-family house.
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So I sped toward the Queen's Cross Church, known locally as the Mackintosh Church, located just north of downtown Glasgow in a spare but charming working-class neighborhood of red brick buildings and curving thoroughfares.
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When Doaker says, "Go on down there to Wylie and Kirkpatrick," he is referring to Wylie Avenue, one of the main thoroughfares in the district, which cuts through the heart of August Wilson's home turf.
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Frustration in this bedroom community of 113,000, where rows of one-floor, concrete homes squeeze between busy thoroughfares, has boiled for years as Hard Rock has grown into a super-venue for concerts and sports.
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At the center of the Spina Centrale, one of the city's major thoroughfares, lies a neon and stone igloo fountain by Mario Merz: a characteristic shape from an artist long concerned with images of shelter.
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The environmentalist group, which brought parts of central London to a halt for 11 days in April, has shifted its focus to 12 sites around Westminster, where its members began blockading thoroughfares on October 7th.
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This cuts down on cost and time needed in terms of preparation before establishing new routes, and Embark says its new 2,400 mile trip down the I-10 shows it can handle major thoroughfares without issue.
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Crossing into the United States from Tijuana, one of the busiest thoroughfares in the hemisphere, construction worker Alejandro Ortiz said "every aspect" of his life would be affected if Trump wins - which he fears will happen.
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GHOST CITIES China's capital of Beijing resembles a ghost town, with main thoroughfares and tourist spots almost deserted, as the country has sealed off cities, canceled flights and closed factories, cutting supply lines to global businesses.
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On Sunday, a peaceful gathering in a park in the city's central business district rapidly morphed into a march, as tens of thousands of black-clad protesters set off in several directions, clogging up major thoroughfares.
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Back in downtown Detroit, I walked near the First National Building again, glancing across Woodward Avenue, one of the most prominent thoroughfares in the region and the spinal cord of the almost year-old QLine streetcar.
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On Wednesday night, before the transit station bombing, thousands of white-clad Muslims filed down one of the busiest thoroughfares in central Jakarta to celebrate the resignation of Mr. Basuki, who is widely known as Ahok.
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Before the event they assembled a "bespoke dataset" with images of more than 500 people who were either banned from attending or wanted for arrest and then set up cameras at one of the Carnival's main thoroughfares.
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Yet for millions of people, those dirt paths and gravel roads are important thoroughfares, and ought to be clearly marked on maps so that they can be reached by other modern services or, you know, get directions.
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Just 24 hours after military chief General Constantino Chiwenga threatened to intervene to end a purge in the ruling party, a Reuters reporter saw six armored personnel carriers on major thoroughfares on the outskirts of the capital.
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"We were commissioned to clear all the main roads and thoroughfares in the areas of Benghazi where there was fighting," said Tarek Farkash, one of the engineers on the demining expedition in Benghazi's Souq al-Hout neighborhood.
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"This is the silence of the lambs," said construction worker Christos Valentis, stuck in his van as Syngrou Avenue, one of the main thoroughfares of the capital, looked like a huge parking lot near the city's centre.
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So when large steel beams rose high in the air between the city's most storied thoroughfares, framing a mansion that will have an unusual, many-sided shape and a flat roof, neighborhood residents and observers were aghast.
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The most vivid display of rainwater damage was a large crater that appeared on part of The Mall, one of the oldest and busiest thoroughfares in the city where colonial era-government buildings and shopping plazas are.
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Federal, state and local law enforcement have taken over the city's downtown, as iron and concrete barriers throttle typically bustling thoroughfares and choke off pedestrian outlets in the 1.7 square mile "event zone" surrounding the Quicken Loans Arena.
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Eyewitnesses said a beer truck was hijacked as it made a delivery nearby and then barrelled at a high speed into a crowd along Drottninggatan, one of the city's major pedestrian thoroughfares, before crashing into a department store.
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"Smart Streets," an initiative aimed at changing traffic patterns and converting one-way streets into two-way thoroughfares in an effort to increase business and development, was initially controversial—no one likes road work—but is now applauded.
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It is one of the busiest pedestrian thoroughfares in New York, with more than 11,000 pedestrians at its peak, on late weekday afternoons, filling 34th Street in front of Macy's, according to a traffic count by the city.
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Every couple of years, Mr. Ruscha rephotographs the street on film, along with other major thoroughfares in central Los Angeles, like Hollywood Boulevard or, most recently, Melrose Avenue, with nothing changed in the process except the streets themselves.
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Supporters of the center-left Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship, led by TV star Salvador Nasralla, set fire to tires across the country, blocking major thoroughfares in the capital, Tegucigalpa, and the second city of San Pedro Sula.
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Convoys of blue and white taxis operated by PT Blue Bird and PT Express Tansindo Utama blocked the city's main thoroughfares, while clashes broke out between some drivers of traditional taxis and motorbike riders working for the online apps.
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Thoroughfares in central Athens turned into a sea of people waving blue and white Greek flags in what locals said was the largest gathering in decades, easily outdoing rallies against austerity foisted by lenders on the crisis-hit country.
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But the building is notable not just for its unusual name or its kaleidoscopic exterior or even its location — at the cross hairs of two main thoroughfares with the on-ramp to the Burnside Bridge wrapping around its backside.
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Extreme anti-government protesters have escalated their actions in Hong Kong over the past week, blocking major thoroughfares and transit hubs, occupying at least two universities, tearing up brick walkways, vandalizing cars and stacking debris to shut down movement.
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The Frye hearing is the latest legal chapter in a case that stretches back almost five years to Garrett's murder, which occurred on a rainy afternoon in a run-down apartment building along one of this village's main thoroughfares.
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When I was growing up in neighboring Vancouver, my friends considered it a netherland of cranberry farms and split-level ranch-style homes, and dismissed it as "Ditchmond" after the often-fetid drainage canals that lined its numbered thoroughfares.
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Leading up to that, in the last frantic days of the campaign, yes and no campaigners in Dublin — many of them young people — rubbed shoulders on crowded thoroughfares, handing out fliers and badges, acknowledging one another through gritted teeth.
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Stanchions erected along Broadway and other thoroughfares plotted a new sequence of Heritage Trails, which were proposed by the recently deceased architect Richard D. Kaplan, and presented the area's Dutch and British colonial history and legacy of commercial construction.
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"We have now told dozens of industrial units and brick kilns through warning notices to install air cleaning filters on smoke-emitting chimneys and have started monitoring vehicles on various thoroughfares and issuing fines to the polluting vehicle owners," he said.
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What you can do is open up your excellent map of Boston, shut down several main thoroughfares, add lots and lots of pedestrians and erratic drivers to the virtual world and then set your AI driver agents to work getting around.
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Many activists -- some willing to be arrested -- have mapped out a week of "direct actions" aimed at gumming up the convention's works with protests that could include blocking off thoroughfares used to transport delegates into and out of the arena.
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Defiance on the streets Jakartans sent a powerful message to would-be attackers Sunday, taking to the streets for their usual Sunday carnival, with residents gathering in major thoroughfares, which are typically closed to traffic for several hours each week.
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And running the streets of Brooklyn—the up and down of curbs, dodging people on crowded thoroughfares, and trying to bound over questionable "litter"—makes my risk of injury greater than if I jump rope with excellent form and strong muscles.
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The tests, reported by Reuters, involved modified Nissan Leaf electric vehicles equipped with a range of sensors and onboard computing power, going as fast as 50 miles per-hour, and transitioning between small local roads and larger, multi-lane thoroughfares.
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The crisis has heaped political pressure on the government ahead of a possible election in 2019 and hundreds of mainly young people blocked off one of Dublin's major thoroughfares on Wednesday in the first major street protest over the issue.
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Encampments in the notoriously high-rent California city hug busy thoroughfares, where people seek shelter under overpasses and reside in not-yet-developed slivers of land—until the city or someone else inevitably evicts them, sending them anywhere but here.
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It is bounded by highways — the Sprain Brook and Saw Mill River Parkways going north-south, Interstate 287 going east-west and the New York State Thruway a few miles away — and intersected by two commercial thoroughfares, Routes 9A and 119.
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Burle Marx, Brazil's greatest landscape designer, hasn't lacked for institutional attention lately; just three years ago the Jewish Museum presented a retrospective of his paintings, tapestries, jewelry and designs for green spaces and public thoroughfares in Rio, Brasília, and even Miami.
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I cannot imagine a more potent metaphor for the art world's habitual detachment from reality than the sight of "Candy and Whips" (2015) dissolving into actual sunlight, particularly sunlight shining on one of the most historically tragic thoroughfares in NYC.
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They made a point of harping on the distinction, making it one of the prevailing rhetorical themes of the demonstrations, which flooded Washington on Saturday and clogged thoroughfares in dozens of other major cities across the US and around the world.
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FORAGING Grafton Street, one of Dublin's main shopping thoroughfares, is a bustling pedestrian-only attraction, but most of its occupants — other than the homegrown luxury department store Brown Thomas — tend toward international brands like American Apparel, Disney and Ted Baker.
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And in the hours before dawn on Monday, two men riding along an expressway here were shot and wounded by gunfire from another vehicle — a pattern the police have seen rise in recent years along some of the city's busiest thoroughfares.
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It's one of the busiest thoroughfares for buses in the UK. Taking the buses and taxis away certainly will help reduce NO2, but the capital's efforts to introduce zero-emission taxis and buses would likely help in that regard, too.
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Many of Monrovia's main thoroughfares have been paved in recent years, though, and Mr. Dongo and other disabled people can often be seen gliding in their wheelchairs through city traffic, dodging cars in a country where road rules are rarely respected.
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For more than a decade, Confederacy enthusiasts have gathered on this January weekend to celebrate the generals' birthdays and "flag" the city — a term they coined to describe standing along thoroughfares, some dressed in Civil War costume, waving Confederate battle flags.
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PITTSBURGH – Protesters have filled the streets of western Pennsylvania the past two weeks, shutting down thoroughfares, halting rush hour traffic and marching to the front steps of the county courthouse, demanding that the officer who fatally shot Antwon Rose be charged and convicted.
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France has been on high security alert following a series of militant Islamist attacks, including the shooting of a policeman in an Islamic State-claimed attack on a police bus on the Champs Elysees, one of the world's most famous thoroughfares, in April.
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In May 2000, New York City's Department of Transportation came to the Queens neighborhoods of Corona, Elmhurst and Jackson Heights to start replacing the old "cobra head" lights on major thoroughfares with new fixtures housing light-emitting diodes, better known as LEDs.
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In the McDonald case, activism was largely driven by young people who led 2015's "Black Friday" demonstration on the busiest shopping day of the year and the more recent shutdown of Lake Shore Drive, one of the city's most crowded thoroughfares.
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The area was heavily protected during Saddam Hussein's regime because of the palaces and residences for himself and family members, but it was not blocked off, since two of the capital's busiest thoroughfares, Haifa Street and 14th of July Boulevard, traversed it.
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"Soleimani's daughter, Zeinab, directly threatened an attack on the U.S. military in the Mideast while speaking to a crowd that stretched as far as the eye could see down major thoroughfares in Iran's capital," per the Associated Press's Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell.
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When they stormed the legislature, Ms. Lam had only suspended consideration of the contentious extradition law, and the angry protesters recalled that a 79-day occupation of major thoroughfares in 2014 to demand freer elections, the so-called Umbrella Movement, achieved nothing durable.
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"Building bike lanes ... in symbolic places like this, major thoroughfares for cars, is part of the lifestyle change we are trying to bring about in Paris," Hidalgo said at the opening of a new cycle lane along Rue de Rivoli last month.
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Almost everyone you encounter these days is nursing aspirations they might develop the "next Uber"– even my own college-aged son, who developed an app designed to take commuters off thoroughfares during peak hours and instead direct motorists to nearby businesses and volunteer opportunities.
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In a three-minute video shared exclusively with WIRED, we see the view from one of Zoox's test cars, a Toyota Highlander SUV retrofitted with its sensors and computing systems, face down some of San Francisco's gnarliest thoroughfares and San Franciscans' most befuddling moves.
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The principal thoroughfares are either named after the city's earliest pioneers (like the Milby Street on which the D&W stands), or direct you to Houston's predecessor/one-time rival town in the area (Harrisburg), or lead you to the sea—like Navigation and Canal.
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Attended by King Felipe, his wife Queen Letizia and two daughters, the venue of the Princess of Girona young talent awards ceremony in Barcelona was heavily guarded by police who had installed heavy fences and blocked one of the city's main thoroughfares with vans.
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By using this data to be able to build computer simulations of common and complex pedestrian environments, researchers will be able to simulate many different pedestrian configurations and then alter the parameters of the corridors or thoroughfares to see how efficiently people can get around.
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Lynn Saville, a Manhattan-based photographer who has for much of her career focused her lens on the material facts of urban structures and thoroughfares, finds working space in the densely populated street photography tradition by finding the infrastructure's secret lives, its many shadow selves.
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The state will immediately be docked 1 percent of its 2018 federal funding from two programs, the National Highway Performance Program, which provides money to maintain and improve national thoroughfares, and the Surface Transportation Block Grant Program, which funds improvements to roads and tunnels.
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As the former No. 2 official under the unpopular outgoing leader, Leung Chun-ying, she presided over the political reform process that ignited the Umbrella Movement of 2014, in which tens of thousands of Hong Kongers occupied major thoroughfares for three months demanding democratic rights.
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This means forming areas of containment—sometimes with concrete blockades, sometimes their own armored bodies lined shoulder-to-shoulder—to keep the fights within from spilling to the businesses and thoroughfares, but allowing just about anything at all to go on inside the protest areas.
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And nowhere is this growth more apparent than off the L train, with major thoroughfares like Bedford Avenue, Montrose Avenue, Grand Street, and Broadway witnessing a slew of small, primarily independent stores pop up just as quick as the swaths of people moving in.
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Other cities, like Austin, Texas, are also examining how to regulate the influx of bike-share (and scooter-share) programs and prevent a situation seen in many Chinese cities, with bike litter, massive bicycle graves, and bikes in trees, bodies of water, and blocking major thoroughfares.
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But if it's not there already, then ongoing investments intended to consolidate a tech infrastructure that already includes two cyber parks — Alfa and Sapiens Parque — and the skeleton of an "innovation route" along one of the city's major thoroughfares may soon push Florianópolis over the threshold.
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The quaint, sunny oasis — which, like its name suggests, contains an actual park — is tucked between the concrete thoroughfares of San Francisco's SOMA District and China Basin and has long had a reputation for being a favorite meeting place for venture capitalists and hopeful startup founders.
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The disqualified candidates are mostly young people who became politically active during the Umbrella Movement protests in 2014, when demonstrators shut down several thoroughfares for more than two months to push for greater choice in elections for chief executive, the top political office in the city.
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Spain was hit by its worst terrorist attack in more than a decade on Thursday, when a van driver plowed into dozens of people enjoying a sunny afternoon on one of Barcelona's most famous thoroughfares, killing at least 13 people and leaving 80 bloodied on the pavement.
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"A cell phone faithfully follows its owner beyond public thoroughfares and into private residences, doctor's offices, political headquarters, and other potentially revealing locales," he wrote, even noting one survey (which was news to me) that 12% of people admitted that they even use their cell phones in the shower.
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The 60-foot-by-93-foot white badge, with a red triangle over the blue "Citgo," hovers six stories above Kenmore Square, where it can be seen from many of the major thoroughfares in and out of the city — not to mention just over left field at Fenway Park.
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Suitsupply holds up that article as evidence of its approach to keeping costs down with vertical integration and what it calls "destination" stores — locations that are off the beaten path and away from major shopping thoroughfares, like its rooftop store in Chicago and its villalike store in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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If you can't afford a long day of drinking or weren't lucky enough to snag a $200 grandstand seat (which sold out long ago), get up early and find a spot along the parade's path, either on Fifth Avenue or Seventh Avenue, the wider thoroughfares on the route.
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But as he noted when he addressed the New Orleans Council on this matter two years ago, many people, including African-Americans, who were voiceless when the city stocked its plazas and thoroughfares with monuments to white supremacy have voices now and deserve to be heard on this matter.
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And the location near Tiantong Road was ideal — I could either hop directly on the subway or take a short walk over the Suzhou River into the Huangpu District, giving me easy access to the Number 255 subway line, one of the two main underground east-west thoroughfares in the city.
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Some residents argue that choosing a street in a disinvested, mostly black neighborhood would perpetuate stereotypes of thoroughfares that are already named for him in other cities, and would fail to force white people to consider Dr. King's legacy and the racism that still exists so long after his death.
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The unassuming neighborhood takes up prime real estate southwest of central Tokyo, between Shibuya's Jumbotron-lined thoroughfares and the expansive greenery of Yoyogi Park, whose National Gymnasium, designed by Kenzo Tange, one of the fathers of post-World War II Japanese modernism, will be an Olympics venue in the summer of 2020.
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Ms. Torres-Gonzalez's killing was the first of 2016 in the 63th Precinct, a two-square-mile area at the southern tip of the Bronx where the towers of 14 housing projects dominate the skyline, methadone clinics dot the main thoroughfares, and gangs and drug-dealing wane with each police roundup and then roar back.
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The plan was called sectoring, an approach that would replace the city's pecking order of primary, secondary and tertiary roads with a two-tier system: Attack the most critical thoroughfares first, and then do the rest by assigned geographic sector, plowing each grid more or less as a Zamboni might cover an ice rink.
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Nice places to sit sprout like mushrooms around design festivals, and I sat in many of them as I contemplated the various elements of the festival: in addition to a battery of opening weekend festivities, there are a number of installations around some of the main thoroughfares, as well as two cohorts presenting special projects.
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Though the hotel faces the city's marina, its entrance on the Passeig de Colom was not exactly a prestige address when the hotel opened in mid-2015, as it's one of the main thoroughfares traversed by trucks and buses as well as pedestrians filtering out of the Gothic Quarter toward the beaches and marina.
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Steve Bullock will be at the fair on Friday, speaking from the Political Soapbox (it's just a raised platform in the middle of one of the fair's thoroughfares; it's also the site of Mitt Romney's "corporations are people too" comment in 2012.) Every candidate will find a way onto that soapbox before the campaign is over.
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The city's Department of Transportation is well aware that cutting the number of precious parking spots — even in a city with millions of spaces — will infuriate drivers, some of whom already see the agency as bent on banishing cars as the city continues to install miles of bike lanes and turn parts of thoroughfares into pedestrian plazas.
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The scene in the streets of Mong Kok on Monday night and early Tuesday morning was reminiscent of the pro-democracy Umbrella Revolution of 2014, when students occupied busy thoroughfares for weeks to protest reforms to the Hong Kong electoral system that would give China the power to vet all candidates vying to be the city's chief executive.
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Scenes of black car hordes taking over north Brooklyn and Manhattan come April is a common fear; a broad majority of the transit advocates and residents VICE has spoken with for this project voiced worry that the residents who can afford it will simply hop into for-hire vehicles each day, thus plugging up what will desperately need to be seamless thoroughfares.
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It's especially true given the fact Chanel is responsible for the gilded wheat field currently planted in the Place Vendôme nearby (it's actually an installation by the artist Gad Weil that the house sponsored in honor of its fine jewelry collection); and given the angry protests against the proposed changes to the French labor laws taking place on the city's thoroughfares.
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He said there were other ways to reduce congestion in Manhattan besides tacking on a new fee, such as by, say, eliminating bike lanes on major thoroughfares that are lightly used in cold months but contribute to year-round gridlock or by reducing fares on the Long Island Rail Road, which runs through Queens, to the same areas as the subways.
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CreditCreditRamsay de Give for The New York Times It is widely known that when the ancient Druids built Manhattan, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, they envisaged future Druids jumping into the middle of 42nd Street, cellphone cameras in hand, to mark the semiannual occasions when the sun set in exact alignment with the city's east-west thoroughfares.
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Just ahead of the alpha's launch, I spent an hour beside the game's lead artist John Laws, playing around with the endless possibilities available—building up and flattening terrain to create new areas for commercial use (and yes, obviously, I made some cock-and-balls shaped hills), setting up ground-level rides and connecting them to existing thoroughfares, building burger joints and shake shacks to fit a pirate theme, and shifting the day/night cycle to see my creation lit up like so many Christmas trees.
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