Sentences with phrase «abandoned city block»

The food obsessives at Chow put together a short video detailing the urban farming exploits of Novella Carpenter who raises bees, chickens, rabbits and fresh organic veggies on an abandoned city block in West Oakland.

«I'd been looking at his work online,» says Lipschutz, «taking an abandoned city block and turning that into an installation that houses his African Bead Museum — with beads that date back to the 1700s.

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At one point, I showed him a block of rusted, crime - ridden factories that lay abandoned and explained that I'd had difficulty getting this part of my city to come back to life.

There are city blocks that are abandoned.

In anticipation of an increase in abandoned animals that would likely occur as many pet owners would not or could not comply with the quarantine ordinance, the city doubled the number of double - deck indoor cages at the city pound by adding 32 double - deck concrete block cages under a tin shed roof to the west side of the pound.

Suffering economic slumps in the 60s and 70s, Bushwick was finally eviscerated by widespread looting and arson after the 1977 power outage in the New York City area, resulting in blocks of abandoned buildings, empty lots, and open - air drug supermarkets.