Sentences with phrase «city sidewalks into»

Two artists transform single gloves found on New York City sidewalks into quirky, handcrafted toys to help the homeless.

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Other cities have tried different approaches, with the Los Angeles Police Department launching a «look up, phone down» public information campaign and Augsburg, Germany, embedding traffic signals into sidewalks so people hunched over mobile devices can spot them.

He told The New York Times that Sidewalk aims to create «platforms that people can plug into,» such as New York City's bike - sharing program.

The barrio had no paved streets, much less sidewalks, streetlights or parks, and 50,000 people packed themselves into less than one square mile, about twice the population density of New York City.

Public streets and sidewalks in NYC are routinely sold to institutions and deep - pocketed real - estate interests in a little - known practice that takes them off the official City Map and transforms them into private property.

In response to pedestrians» concerns that they do not have enough time to cross Delancey Street's rushing lanes of traffic, the city will bump sidewalks out into the street, possibly using planters, sources said.

Oddo is launching an «Own the 18» campaign to encourage businesses and homeowners to follow the city's law that requires they clean the sidewalk of their property and 18 inches into the street to help drive down litter in the borough.

The council presented their findings and recommendations to the common council on Aug. 27 broken up into two parts: revise the current city code by this coming snow season, which they achieved, and have the city assume the operations of the sidewalk snow removal by next year's snow season.

The city has committed $ 1.5 billion to erecting green infrastructure — green roofs, street and sidewalk plantings, porous pavements, cisterns, rain barrels — that will control and absorb storm water and prevent polluted runoff from flowing into waterways by capturing it and filtering it naturally through the soil.

With the bustling of cars, pollution in the air, and irate individuals inhabiting the city, I can understand why I usually try to block out the outside world when I run, but this time, let into the moment of jogging down the street, I began to see a new vision: crisp air caused a puffy cloud to form with each exhale, and with the drifting leaves on the sidewalk, I began to perceive the beautiful birds sweeping through the city, people - watching from the trees.

TECH CRUNCH - Jan 22 - Tagged, the people discovery service with 300M registrations and 3M daily users, is stepping into offline meetups by launching standalone app Sidewalk that feeds you fun happenings in your city, as well as who you might run into where you're hanging out.

Only steps behind Perry's chaotic handheld camera movements, Jason Schwartzman as Philip stomps down New York City sidewalks, first meeting an ex-girlfriend to rub his newfound success in her face, then storming into his publisher's office to declare he no longer intends to do any media promotion for the book.

A crowd of protesters gathered on the sidewalk outside a government building in Lower Manhattan last June, collectively demanding that the city and state reach an agreement on how to pump billions of new dollars into New York City schools - and settle its contentious, decade - long school adequacy lawscity and state reach an agreement on how to pump billions of new dollars into New York City schools - and settle its contentious, decade - long school adequacy lawsCity schools - and settle its contentious, decade - long school adequacy lawsuit.

While you're on that trip in an unfamiliar city, you bump into a child on the sidewalk and send her to the pavement.

In a city this large, the odds of bumping into someone on the sidewalk and spilling your coffee on them are fairly high, which is why you need liability coverage on your NYC renters insurance.

In high - traffic areas such as city sidewalks or bike trails (like the popular Washington and Old Dominion Trail here in Fairfax / Loudoun County), animals can bolt into oncoming car and bike traffic before owners have time to hit the leash's brake button or retract the cord.

When you jump into the New York City harbour the game automatically launches you back onto the sidewalk.

But he managed to imbue a well - worn practice with a fresh, if knowing, sense of poetry — as in the image here, where cigarette butts mashed into a sidewalk grate recall the city and its vast multitudes.

Through an extensive community engagement process, educational literacy workshops, and storytelling events, a curated collection of community narratives will be integrated by an artist into improved streets, sidewalks, benches, and other neighborhood infrastructure in the Oakland City neighborhood.

Using abandoned television monitors found on sidewalks around the city, Scharf transforms the matte black and silver plastic TVs into brightly painted faces for his series TV BAX.

There is a Facebook page I follow that promotes walkability, but seems to have devolved into a rant site to attack cyclists who ride on the sidewalk, making it sound like the biggest problem in the City.

Materials such as sustainably - harvested timber and carbon «negative «cements could one day trap large volumes of carbon in our cities» skyscrapers, roads, and sidewalks, preventing that carbon from escaping back into the atmosphere for decades.

I picture the following cartoon: a goofy looking human in a bath towel running a dozen hair dryers in each hand, and then zooming out to bring all of their neighbors into view doing exactly the same thing, then panning over to show a busy city sidewalk packed with people rushing to work with a briefcase and a dozen running hair dryers in each hand (either with arms at their sides, or perhaps even up above their heads continuing to dry their hair as they walk, briefcases dangling in the air), and then zooming out again to show the same scene carried out on every city sidewalk.

With respect to icy sidewalks, the law will take into account severe weather storms when determining a municipality's liability, in addition to a number of other considerations including: pedestrian traffic, length of time dangerous conditions existed, reasonableness of the expectation that city would rectify problem.