While it has 53 Walk-UPs (more than Chicago, which came in at number four), a small percentage of office and retail space is near those Walk-UPs.
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Because of all the equipment involved, walk-ups tend to be non-starters.
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Walk-ups in traditional brownstones were beautiful, but always on a top floor.
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Co-ops, generally east of Sunset Park, also exist, most of them walk-ups.
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Reservations on the piece's site are completely sold out, but walk-ups are still encouraged.
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There were mostly two-bedrooms of vastly unequal size, in walk-ups on high floors.
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She described how she felt about some of the walk-ups on the smaller streets.
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Its 1,000-foot skyscraper would soar above a neighborhood dominated by low-rise walk-ups.
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Its 1,000-foot skyscraper would soar above a neighborhood dominated by low-rise walk-ups.
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The family lived in various walk-ups in the Lower East Side during the girls' childhood.
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Pre-reserved tickets are sold out, but walk-ups will be accepted on a limited basis.
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The man in the red cap looms ominously above his town of dollhouses and walk-ups.
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"Denise lived in one of those walk-ups that look like garbage from a distance," he writes.
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But many of the side streets are quiet and residential, filled with walk-ups and low-rise apartment buildings.
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"Downtown" was the shadowy province beneath 14th Street — a countercultural warren of tenement walk-ups and industrial loft spaces.
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The fact that the buildings are all walk-ups seemed a small inconvenience when compared with the incredible atmosphere.
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Researchers determined the walkability of cities by counting the number of "Walk-UPs," or the number of walkable urban centers.
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The buildings are not much to look at -- squat concrete walk-ups with notoriously dark stair-wells and crumbling steps.
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A designer from 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' weighs in on the eclectic décor of their Greenwich Village walk-ups.
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In walk-up buildings, one-bedrooms were $230,239 and two-bedrooms, $73,27; no studios were found in walk-ups, Mr. Benaim said.
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Mr. Astor wanted to attract wealthy families to the Far East Side of Manhattan, once a threadbare area of walk-ups and factories.
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The developer, Gamma Real Estate, has already demolished three four-story walk-ups and started digging a hole for the slim tower's foundation.
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Classic tenement-style walk-ups, with stores at the base and facades zigzagged with fire escapes, are on full display on Madison Street.
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Many of Astoria's prewar walk-ups have no basement and consequently have no laundry room, Ms. Vasile said, though elevator buildings often feature one.
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The buildings are all three-floor walk-ups with two apartments on the ground floor and three each on the second and third floors.
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Mr. Perez's friends, many of them living in private walk-ups, disdained dealers from the projects, whom they saw as more wanton in their violence.
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She turned down some fifth-floor walk-ups, including a studio on East 78th Street near First Avenue for a relatively low $1,935 a month.
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However, on the other side of Shaftesbury Avenue, in Soho, sex workers from the walk-ups expressed fear that their premises are next in line.
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Many are locals who have the means to move to nicer homes, tired of the shabby six-floor walk-ups that still dominate many old city-centres.
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But it's probably also because, short of putting all the polls in fifth-floor walk-ups, there's no easy way to keep elderly white men from voting.
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There were six-floor walk-ups that had hot water only a few days a week; subleases of subleases in Sunnyside, Queens; and too many couches to count.
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The Hunt Aware that square footage isn't easy to find downtown, a couple moves quickly through a labyrinth of sixth-floor walk-ups, mock balconies and dark studios.
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Even though the registration has passed for many of the programs, they still may accept walk-ups, who should arrive extra early to see if there is a spot.
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As he worked in West Chelsea, he had been looking on the West Side, but most of the apartments he had seen were small walk-ups with challenging layouts.
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In recent decades, the walk-ups and other low-rise buildings have provided homes for newly minted college graduates, young families, older pensioners and strivers from the country's heartland.
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In recent decades, the walk-ups and other low-rise buildings have provided homes for newly minted college graduates, young families, older pensioners and strivers from the country's heartland.
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To assemble the building site, Mr. Beninati had spent a fortune buying three walk-ups on the south side of 57th Street and unused development rights from nearby buildings.
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Others are hunkering down in walk-ups and floor-throughs, waiting on next week, tables at their favorite Chinese restaurants open for all, a movie on Tuesday afternoon, no lines.
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Upper West Siders, especially those in walk-ups or prewar buildings, might experience sticker shock over the asking rents in a new building that is rising on West 80th Street.
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Kim Bloomfield, an agent at Citi Habitats, recalled showing a man moving from Washington one-bedrooms on the Upper East Side in the $21,2500 range, which limited him primarily to walk-ups.
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The men were ambivalent about living in new construction, but after looking at a handful of not-so-nice older walk-ups in Fort Greene that were just as expensive, they figured why not.
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With all the other neighboring businesses gone, it could become a mere relic in a neighborhood of walk-ups that are rapidly being replaced with glassy condos, expensive boutiques and national chains like Whole Foods.
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In 2003, city officials rezoned a 17-block chunk in Park Slope to encourage apartment buildings with as many as 12 stories, significantly higher than the five-story walk-ups that had dominated the street.
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Facing the walk-ups is an example of the housing type that prompted the bulldozing of similar tenements: the sweeping La Guardia public housing development from 1957, where 1,094 apartments are populated by 153,513 residents.
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To watch a Reichardt film is to be reminded of an America that exists outside the walk-ups of Park Slope, one in which the dangers and splendors of nature still have a role to play.
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As more Walk-UPs are being built in central areas and single-family homes are becoming increasingly expensive to build, Smart Growth America states that cities will be expected to invest more in this more urban infrastructure.
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The 2200-Minute Interview Mr. Margules, 2000, is the founder, president and chief executive of Margules Properties, a New York-based company that specializes in residential rental buildings, many of which are rent-stabilized or rent-controlled walk-ups.
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TODAY, SEOUL IS a city of 10 million defined by its modernity: There are five-story brick walk-ups known as "villas," Corbusier-inspired white concrete apartment complexes and steel-and-glass skyscrapers, which make up 60 percent of the country's housing stock.
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The top-ranked cities have a better balance between the metro centers and the suburbs when it came to urbanization (Many of New York's Walk-UPs are located in Manhattan and not in the neighboring boroughs, which dropped it below D.C. in the rankings in 2014).
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Everything about it is designed to make the listener feel good and up, from that "oh yeah" call and response to the bright tone of the horns by the Dap-Kings to the driving bass line interlaced with eighth-note scale walk-ups on the guitar.
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Made up of a bunch anti-cowboys (long hairs, women, Jews) who have done time in the wildly under-appreciated Debo Band, Jolie Holland, and appreciated about right Baroness, Wilder Maker makes down home Americana music for the city streets and walk-ups that frame them.
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It was a day for hopefuls and semidelusional dreamers, for weekend warriors and one former member of the Los Angeles Lakers — 225 players in all, who each paid a $2000 registration fee ($25 for walk-ups) to audition on a recent weekend morning for a spot at training camp.
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Up here the big-ticket dealers in grand townhouses exhibit alongside younger galleries in walk-ups and outposts of international dealers; the last few years have welcomed Nara Roesler and Mendes Wood of São Paulo, Almine Rech of Paris, Simon Lee of London and Kurimanzutto of Mexico City.
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In a city where an estimated 22012,21 seniors are on the waiting list for an affordable apartment, supporters of the project see the garden as a palatable sacrifice in order to house older adults on fixed incomes who are burdened with high rents or isolated in walk-ups.
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Tenant: Astro Gallery of Gems Landlord: NYC 7900 Holdings L.L.C. Brokers: Brett Gold and Nigel Shamash, 5CRE $30 million 409-1023 East 84th Street (between First and York Avenues) Manhattan Two six-story Upper East Side walk-ups, built in 1910 and sitting on one lot, total 31,152 square feet.
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Tenant: Small City L.L.C. Landlord: Gowanus Holdings L.L.C Broker: Alex Robayo, Ideal Properties Group $11 million 326-328 Graham Avenue (at Devoe Street) Williamsburg, Brooklyn These two combined 1920 four-story walk-ups, with a total of about 12,000 square feet on a 50-by-100-foot lot, are to be delivered vacant.
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Poke around a bit, though, and you can still find plenty of mom-and-pop operations, including dry cleaners, shoe-repair shops and restaurants that deliver, between the shiny stores and tucked away on the side streets, which are lined with picturesque brownstones and smaller apartment buildings, some of them walk-ups.
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Between the West Village, with its maze of narrow historic streets, and the East Village — an early locus for the down and out, then artists' haven and punk-rock heaven, now a tidy mecca for young professionals who fill its renovated walk-ups, wine bars and tapas places — is Greenwich Village proper.
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CreditCreditBlaine Davis LIKE MANY OF the millions of immigrants who have arrived in New York City in the last three centuries, Laila Gohar and Omar Sosa live in one of the downtown walk-ups that were built to accommodate the surge of new residents who have defined the city's culture since the mid-22016s.
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Buyer: 210 St. Johns LF L.L.C. Seller: Dilenia Morales Brokers: Christopher Manno, Toby Waring, Adam Lobel, Luke Sproviero and Derek Bestreich, Bestreich Realty Group $233 MILLION 25-123 Hester Street (between Mott and Mulberry Streets) Manhattan These three contiguous five-story mixed-use walk-ups in Little Italy, with two additional four-story buildings behind Nos.
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For example, as two of the most densely-populated cities in the U.S., the majority of our residents live in multi-family housing units like apartment buildings and three-story walk-ups, which make it difficult for our citizens to pursue renewable energy options like solar panels due to shared ownership rights, complex electricity metering, and a limited availability of options.
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Tenant: See's Candies Tenant's Brokers: Joshua J. Roth, Donald Zucker Company Landlord: Return to Home Landlord's Brokers: William Abramson and Matthew Olden, Buchbinder & Warren Realty Group $15.5 million 1750-1752 Second Avenue (between East 91st and 92nd Streets) Manhattan These two five-story, mixed-use Yorkville walk-ups, totaling 15,070 square feet, offer 20 apartments: 14 free market, three rent-stabilized and three rent-controlled.
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Seller: Ralf Kuettel Brokers: Brock Emmetsberger and Daniel Mankovsky, Cushman & Wakefield $218 MILLION 21927 and 2224 Eastern Parkway (between Albany and Troy Avenues) Crown Heights, Brooklyn A private real estate investment firm, with properties mostly in Brooklyn and northern Manhattan, has bought these two adjacent four-story walk-ups with 423 rent-stabilized apartments — 242 two-bedrooms and six one-bedrooms — with rents averaging $252,239 a month.
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Tenant: Sports Medicine at Chelsea Landlord: Twenty Three R. P. Associates Brokers: James Buslik, Alan Bonett and Bradley Cohn, Adams & Company $4393 MILLION 439-441 Henry Street (between Degraw and Kane Streets) Cobble Hill, Brooklyn This pair of mid-19th-century five-floor walk-ups in the Cobble Hill Historic District offers a total of 17 apartments, of which four are rent-stabilized and the rest are market rate.
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"On the sixth or seventh apartment, he tells me he has a king-size bed that he's not willing to give up," said Ms. Bloomfield, who had to explain to the man that not only were the layouts of the older walk-ups in his price range not ideal for a king-size bed, she was not even sure he would be able to get it up the stairs.
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Tenant: Trippen Tenant's Broker: Grace DeLibero, citygrace Landlord: 2721F Mulberry Street Cooperative Landlord's Brokers: Dominic Coluccio and Danielle Nazinitsky, the Corcoran Group $215 MILLION 213 and 153-215 2244th Avenue (between West 25002th and West 25th Streets) Manhattan These contiguous mixed-use five-story walk-ups, across from Avenues: The World School in West Chelsea and the High Line, may be bought together or separately, with a cap rate of about 4 percent.
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Buyer: Makere Corporation Seller: The Choukroun Asset Management Trust Brokers: Peter Von Der Ahe, Joe Koicim, David Lloyd and Logan Markley, Marcus & Millichap $214 MILLION 241 and 245 Ocean Parkway (between Church Avenue and Beverley Road) Kensington, Brooklyn Two adjacent 1923 four-story walk-ups, totaling 36,000 square feet, with an additional 24,19713 square feet in air rights, feature 32 apartments — 18 two-bedrooms, 10 three-bedrooms and four four-bedrooms — of which 21 are renovated.
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Most buildings used for walk-ups have two or three separate walk-ups in them. The walk-ups generally have a rota system with a different sex worker working every day. Each walk-up normally contains a single sex worker and a maid. The job of the maid is to act as receptionist who can receive potential clients when the sex worker is occupied and either give them somewhere to wait or suggest they return at a later time.
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During the mid–2000s several walk-ups on streets leading off Shaftesbury Avenue were bought up and closed or renovated for other uses. By the end of 2014 the gentrification of Soho had reduced the number of flats used for prostitution to around 40, it has since reduced to about a dozen walk-ups. Nevertheless, the area remains a red-light district and prostitution still takes place in walk-ups. The studio flats in which they work are often sign- posted by fluorescent "model" signs at street level.
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Instead closure orders on the grounds of drug taking and public nuisance and/or disorder are typically used. Nevertheless, there have been a number of high-profile police raids in Soho based on allegations of sex trafficking and pimping, and these have resulted in the closure of some walk- ups. However, in some cases the closure orders have been overturned in court as it could not be adequately demonstrated that prostitutes were being "controlled". In these cases the courts allowed the walk-ups to reopen.
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Although several walk-ups on streets leading off Shaftesbury Avenue were bought up and closed or renovated for other uses during the mid-2000s, prostitution still takes place in walk-ups in parts of Soho, and there is drug dealing on some street corners. Much of the business has been reported to have been run by Albanian gangs. By the end of 2014, gentrification and competition from the internet had reduced the number of flats in Soho used for prostitution, but the area remains a red-light district and a centre of the sex industry in London.
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The working class crowded into tenement houses, with far fewer features and amenities. They were cheap and easy to build, and filled up almost the entire lot. There were typically five story walk-ups, with four separate apartments on each floor. There was minimal air circulation and sunlight.
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A thousand odors of cooking food came forth to the street. The building quivered and creaked from the weight of humanity stamping about in its bowels. Tenements were cheap and easy to build, and filled up almost the entire lot. There were typically five story walk-ups, with four separate apartments on each floor.
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The east (main) facade of the Walser House faces Central Avenue. Today, it is one of the few single-family homes in the neighborhood, as most of Central Avenue is now walk-ups and apartment buildings. The exterior of the house is mostly white stucco. A two-story living room and bedroom block dominated the main facade.
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Throughout the neighborhood are brownstone townhouses, brick walk- ups, and five- to six-story apartment buildings, typically constructed between 1880 and 1930. Small, independently-owned shops are scattered throughout. Major commercial developments are in Kenmore Square and along Brookline Avenue, Beacon Street, Boylston Street, and Huntington Avenue. The baseball stadium Fenway Park is located immediately south of the Turnpike from Kenmore Square.
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Many of these apartment buildings are "walk-ups" without an elevator, and some have shared bathing facilities, though this is becoming less common. The slang term "dingbat" is used to describe cheap urban apartment buildings from the 1950s and 1960s with unique and often wacky façades to differentiate themselves within a full block of apartments. They are often built on stilts, and with parking underneath.
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Pikes Peak, tallest mountain in El Paso County, Colorado County highpointing, unlike state highpointing, is most popular in the British Isles. There are several guides covering ascents of the counties of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. There are 48 counties in England, 33 in Scotland, 32 in Ireland, and 22 in Wales. Most of these "county tops" outside Scotland are non- technical walk-ups.
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In practice, for much of the second half of the 20th century the police did not attempt to close the Soho walk-ups. This laissez faire policy in turn made it difficult to enforce the law. A police investigation in 2007 which led to charges of controlling prostitution resulted in a successful defence of "abuse of process". Consequently, prosecuting for sexual offences is often not the approach chosen by police.
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None of Cockscomb's routes walk-ups, the easiest a Class 4. Cockscomb has two summits, a west and an east, separated by about , with a sharp notch between. The west summit is a small perch, which can barely hold two people, while the east summit is a knife-edge, a dangerous perch. Their altitudes are within a few inches of each other, so saying which is higher is problematic.
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In the middle 1950s, the factory was producing two to four storey walk up flats, and by 1964 the Concrete House Project was turning out pre-cast walls for villas as well as walk-ups and would soon be producing the components for high rise towers. Approximately 27 of these precast concrete 20 to 30 storey height buildings were constructed around Melbourne, until the type of development fell into disrepute.
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There are a number of online directories that give the locations of the walk-ups and some details of the sex workers that are providing services on particular days. Unlike a call girl or escort, visits are not by appointment and no booking is made. The potential client simply rings the bell to see if the sex worker is available. Money is paid directly to the sex worker for the required sexual service.
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Sandford used to have a football team playing in the South West District Football League. The club merged with nearby Casterton prior to the start of the 2014 season to form the Casterton- Sandford Football Netball Club. The Sandford Bush Festival est. 2018 is held on the Labour Day Weekend in March and includes Folk, Bluegrass, Aussie Country, Gospel and Celtic music as well as bush dance concerts, poet's breakfasts, jam sessions, walk-ups and workshops.
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To register for a tee time, guests must have their driver's license on file with the park's reservation system. Note that New York residents can reserve a tee time seven days in advance, while out-of- state residents can only reserve tee times starting at 7:00 pm Eastern Time two days before the intended date of play. Walk-ups are also accepted. Commonly, golfers wait in line in the parking lot overnight to secure walk-up tee times.
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In 2015 the HMRC set up a dedicated "adult entertainment task force" to collect unpaid income tax from, among others, online escort agencies. The sex trade in the UK takes diverse forms, including street prostitution, escort prostitution and prostitution conducted from premises. The premises used include massage parlours, saunas, private flats and Soho walk-ups. In 2003 undercover police visited the lap dancing club Spearmint Rhino on Tottenham Court Road in London and claimed that it was a front for prostitution.
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Pioneer Homes, in Syracuse, New York, was one of the earliest government public housing projects in the United States. Pioneer Homes was completed in 1941 and remains fully occupied even as another nearby public housing project was demolished. The project consists of 607 apartments, which include both row houses and 3-story walk-ups, all constructed of masonry with brick exteriors in an early modern style. The project is bordered by East Adams Street, Renwick Avenue, Taylor Street, and South Townsend Street.
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Then the operator would direct the outgoing and incoming passengers to "watch the step". Manual pushbutton elevator controls Automatic elevators began to appear as early as the 1920s, their development being hastened by striking elevator operators which brought large cities dependent on skyscrapers (and therefore their elevators) such as New York and Chicago to their knees. Self service elevators were not allowed in New York City until 1922. Prior to this, non-luxury buildings that could not afford an attendant were built as five- story walk ups.
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The films included that of Marie Corelli riding in the Shakespeare Birthday procession and the HMS Albion disaster on the River Thames in 1898.bdcmuseum.org.uk Richard Chipperfield's Electrograph fairground bioscope showSlide Show World, Pages from History, A Collection of Historic Images – The British Sideshow Pg-2Victorian Popular Culture Moving Pictures, Optical Entertainments and the Advent of Cinema Documents Previewcircushistory.org, CHIPPERFIELD Three circus in 1979, by Jack Niblett, 1979 Richard's hobby was painting, particularly of animals; examples adorn the walk-ups of his circus pavilion. He married Maud, daughter of George Seaton.
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Only 33% of riders are "walk-ups" from the surrounding neighborhood, according to a 2011-2012 study funded by the MTA. There is an effort to close this station due to the crime the station is alleged to bring to its community, including an attempted murder. While MTA has not considered closing the station, other actions have been taken or considered. These include the placement of a call box where riders can alert police when in need, additional security cameras, and the early closing of the station at 8 pm.
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Bathrooms had clawfoot tubs and many of the apartments had gas fireplaces and leaded glass windows. The basement had a doctor's office, central heating system, and the janitor's suite, for the guy who maintained the building and took care of apartments when the tenants were out. Clas added features like the maid's room and fireplaces to appeal to the upper middle-class, which is different from most apartments built in Milwaukee at the time, which were walk-ups and Chicago tenement-style. Clas himself lived in one of these apartments from 1909 to 1920.
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The Sirius building is an apartment complex in The Rocks district of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Designed for the Housing Commission of New South Wales in 1978–1979 by commission architect Tao Gofers, the building is a prominent example of Brutalist architecture in Australia. It also has striking repetitive geometries in reaction to the Japanese metabolist architecture movement. Notable for being the only high rise development in The Rocks, Sirius housed 79 apartments with one, two, three or four bedrooms, generally with single storey apartments to two and three storey walk ups.
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A "walk- up" is a type of flat that is accessed from a common stairway rather than a lift. The way a potential client accesses a Soho walk-up is generally by walking through an open door at street level and then up a flight of stairs to a second closed door which has a door bell containing a girl's name. The client rings the bell to gain access. From the street level door to the main building there is often a visible hand crafted sign reading "model" to indicate that it is indeed the entrance to one or more walk-ups.
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As well as their self- created golf course, children in Ardler had access to other leisure facilities. Each of the six multis had its own play park for the children that incorporated swings, a chute and a sandpit, and there were other play parks among the walk-ups in the southern part of the scheme. There was also enough open space for the provision for football. This area was well used by school and junior league football teams particularly at the weekends, and during a match it could be difficult to move due to all the cars parked in the area.
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The prefabricated houses on the site of the new development were demolished in the early 1960s, and the new scheme was built. On the south part of the site were ‘courtyards’, bungalows with an enclosed courtyard which offered some privacy, walk-ups and maisonettes, with shared entrances which may have been intended to further increase a community spirit, and in the north were the multi-storey blocks. Most were small, 2-bedroom houses, ideal for a first home or for small families, but less so for larger families. In all there were 1,177 house units and six multi-storey blocks containing 1,788 flats, making 2,965 new houses in total.
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1988 aerial photograph of Fairlington Fairlington's streets are all two lanes and they are neither on a grid with uniform city blocks nor in the suburban cul-de-sac style found in most American suburbs but are slightly winding and usually separated by the equivalent of two or more city blocks. Fairlington's apartment units are grouped in "courts," usually three or four separate buildings of around 40-50 total units facing a parking lot (carpark). Most units are three levels (upstairs, ground level and basement) with front and back doors. Some units are two or three story walk-ups with units on a single floor.
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Escort prostitution is one of the forms that the sex trade takes in the United Kingdom, along with prostitution practiced in massage parlors, saunas, private flats (such as the Soho walk-ups) and street prostitution. Working as an outcall escort is not an offence, and neither is working as a prostitute in private. However, under the Policing and Crime Act 2009 it is a criminal offence to pay for services of a prostitute who is controlled for gain if any third party uses force, threat (whether or not relating to violence) or any other form of coercion. In 2015 the HMRC set up a dedicated “adult entertainment task force” to collect unpaid income tax from, among others, online escort agencies.
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A pianist or organist who is good at faking can improvise an introduction, make up a backing pattern, or produce chord voicings to a given chord progression with no preparation. To "fake" means to be able to create on-the-spot backing parts. A comper who is good at faking can do this because she has a mastery of the "ingredients" of accompanying (chords, arpeggios, scales) and a good knowledge of idioms and stock devices (turnarounds, passing chords, bass "walk-ups" and "walk-down" lines). Continuing the cooking analogy, a good faker is able to quickly blend and mix these stock "ingredients" to produce what sounds to many listeners like a finished "dish" (in musical terms, a previously-written out arrangement).
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By the 1920s in Australia, the apartment was growing more common as an accepted means of housing, as areas like Potts Point and Darlinghurst in Sydney began to embrace higher-density living. However, despite an increasingly affluent clientele, there was still a widely held belief that flats were not fit for a home and high-density living was still often associated with the crowded workers tenements of North America and Europe. This led to attempts to ban flats outright by some local governments in NSW and Victoria and the different laws introduced by governments in the two states begin to create differing languages of design in the two cities, with Melbourne’s stricter laws creating a unique character of apartments in the city. Melbourne apartment buildings were very rarely more than three storeys, ie. ‘walk ups’ without lifts, and usually set back from boundaries with sometimes large front gardens, unlike their sometimes larger scale Sydney counterparts.
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The began to build larger and larger estates of housing in the suburban fringes, as well as country towns, of both single homes and duplexes, from stylish Old English style double brick to simple unadorned prefabricated weatherboard. The compulsory purchase and demolition of blocks of 'slums' in the inner and middle ring suburbs also gathered pace, usually replaced by apartment buildings of various designs, from long two storey blocks of prefabricated construction placed diagonally on the blocks in a garden setting to concentrated blocks of concrete and brick four storey walk-ups. The Commission was keen to produce the largest number of house at the lowest cost, and in an era when prefabrication was widely regarded as the most efficient construction method, the Commission continued its pre-war development of precast concrete houses. In 1946 the former Commonwealth Tank factory building in suburban Holmesglen was leased to the Victorian Housing Commission, and transformed into a 'Housing Factory' for the production of prefabricated concrete houses and flats. The entire operation became a production line process and by 1948, 1,000 houses had been produced.
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