Sentences with phrase «blocks up the street»

NPE held its 2015 convention two blocks up the street from Lake Michigan in the historic Drake Hotel.

3 years ago both closed up and now there is a boring, sterile Apple store one block up the street.

Not exact matches

Whether it's the barista frothing my cappuccino as I impatiently embark on my next transcontinental flight or the construction workers blocking the street while cars pile up and they, doughnuts in hand, mosey along attempting to clear the blockage du jour, people seem to be flat - out taking their blasted time.

So when Sprinkles arrived in D.C., it didn't pick just any location; it threw down the gauntlet, opening three blocks from Washington's current cupcake champion, Georgetown Cupcake, whose customers form lines that snake up the street.

Black and white and Persian and Korean they come, not to mark the occasion of death, but to get where they are going — to pick up bulgogi from a nearby street cart, or fill a prescription at the Shoppers Drug Mart, or to make it to an appointment with the dentist whose office sits under the image of a broad smile just down the block.

As I turned the corner onto Plantation Drive — the street that would usually take us out of the neighborhood — what I saw startled me: a small black sedan, like a child's toy in the bathtub, bobbing up and down on the swollen waters that blocked our way out to safety.

In contrast, my own Chicago parish church and elementary school are located on two city blocks that together take up ten acres, but those blocks include — in addition to the church and school — over 100 dwelling units in a variety of buildings two - to - three stories tall, more than 15 businesses, and nearly 200 on - and off - street parking spaces for the public.

I walked about half a block when my peripheral vision, trained to do so from living in the inner - city for 10 months, picked up on a group of guys walking quietly behind me on the opposite side of the street.

Last year the news reports of the Pride Parade where I live showed a float with Christians who say they support LGBTQs, However, it also showed a church in the area where the floats and marchers line up that blocked off its parking lot and access to its property and posted people on the property who said the church objects to parade participants using the public street in front of the church.

Down the block, across the street from Employees Only and up a narrow stairway sits a curious new addition to the Singapore drinking scene.

Most of them were constructed as a way to make up the difference between field level and street level on a sloping block.

20 million Euros is right up Wenger's street, it's about 50 blocks away from Lemar Avenue.?

After everyone is tuckered out, hit up the refreshment stands in the zoo or even the Zebra Station softserve stand with a great river view... OR you could drive a mere 30 blocks westward down Butler Street to Dozen Bake Shop.

The lobbying that led up to a deal for 1.42 acres in the 900 block of West Adams Street demonstrates the hurdles faced by a city trying to find open space during an extended housing boom.

The woman was walking in the 2900 block of West Lyndale Street about 9:15 a.m. Monday when a man came up to her and asked for directions, according to a police alert.

Howe, then a lobbyist for a subsidiary of Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna, hosted a dinner gathering with Cuomo on Dec. 14 in a small upstairs room of the Fort Orange Club, a baronial brick retreat across the street from Whiteman's Albany offices and up the block from the state Capitol.

As to the Fracas on the streets, they were in an area that is all camered up, and the deli's are located at 19th avenue and Clintonville Street, 5 blocks from the parkway, and 4 blocks from Francis Lewis Blvd, 17th Avenue and Francis Lewis Blvd, 5 blocks from the parkway, andwhere jusr last week that tragic accident occured.

On Sunday, the mayor issued a five - point traffic - cutting plan that includes limiting truck deliveries in congestion areas while also ramping up enforcement of moving violations that clog streets, such as blocking the box.

City pols are urging the state to block the closing of a psychiatric ward in upper Manhattan, where residents fear that hundreds of untreated mentally ill people will wind up on neighborhood streets.

The development — a $ 520 million, 1,200 - unit building that will take up nearly the entire block of West 45th Street between 10th and 11th avenues — is being built by the Gotham Organization and is expected to be ready for tenants by the end of 2014.

The latest edition of the Mount Hope Monitor is now online: Stories include: PS 204 Teachers, Parents: Current School Building Not Up to Par Teachers and parents suspect that the academic success of their school, on West 174th Street in Morris Heights, is hurting their chances of moving to a new location a few blocks away.

Developer Extell has put up for sale a block of 38 rental apartments in One57, the 1,004 - foot - high tower on West 57th Street ranked as the city's most expensive condominium.

Instead, AMRI would go into space of similar size in the Conventus building, whose planned six stories were under construction just a few blocks further up Main Street.

Velazquez, for example, picks up most of the Grand Street Co-ops from Maloney, a larger portion of the Two Bridges neighborhood and a few more blocks in Chinatown.

The collaborative process to come up with ideas for the Matthews - Palmer Playground was spurred on by members of the West 45th and 46th Street block Associations, who plan to host a «Design Your Park» Day on Saturday, filled of events and brainstorming for the space on West 45th Street, between Ninth and 10th Avenues.

The mood was festive and reminiscent of a block party at the Queens office opening, at 24 - 55 Francis Lewis Blvd., with tables and a tent set up on the street and many supporters lining up for hamburgers and hot dogs cooked on a grill.

«It's unpredictable right now,» said Hamada Saleh, who targeted the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus when he opened up Caffeology coffee shop a block away on Allen Street two years ago.

But to a large degree, things are looking up only because we're so down, because expectations have been so lowered that, for example, restoring traffic to one block of Main Street is regarded as major progress.

AvalonBay's tower will fill up an entire block between 96th and 97th streets between First and Second Avenue.

It would be the first time NYCHA will open up a street in one of its super block housing projects.

«We all know how frustrating it can be to wake up and find your street has been unexpectedly blocked off for a street fair, a parade or any other event,» said East Side City Councilman Dan Garodnick, who authored the bill creating the map.

Customers reported a 20 - minute wait time for a table at Ithaka Greek Restaurant on East 86th Street and a half - hour wait at Sotto Cinque up the block.

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It was a comedy of errors — we went on the wrong train after many failed attempts to hail a cab, missed empty cabs on the other side of the street, and ended up walking back to the hotel an hour and a half later only to catch a cab a few blocks away.

I also decided to add this new hat which I picked up at Nordstrom before my trip to Mexico, a few months ago, to the outfit to help block out the sun as I stroll through the streets of Europe Houston.

An homage to the much pricier Chloe «Harper» (as seen here), this lace up boot features a chunky block heel and lug sole, perfect for withstanding the dangerous pothole - laden city streets.

As I leave the Regal Theatres, preparations for tonight's closing gala with «Magic Mike» (2012) are well along, the streets blocked off, the big lights up.

John Boyega shows up in the little known sci - fi movie Attack the Block where a group of inner city street kids take on an invasion of aliens.

Today, much of that industry has pulled up and gone, but on every block, near every street corner, there are weedy, empty lots where gas stations, a paint company, or a factory once stood.

Imagine blocks upon blocks of crushed and leaning buildings; boats washed up on sand covered streets; homes lifted off their foundations and transported yards down the road; basements filled with water, sometimes rising up past the first floor; several missing persons and over 100,000 residents without electricity as winter marches in.

If one is looking for a symbol of the rise and fall — and resurrection — of the American high school, one need but take the # 1 IRT subway to 225th Street in the Bronx, then walk a few blocks up Marble Hill along the north shore of the Harlem River.

The Wall Street Journal All de Blasio's Children, New York's mayor gives up control to block more charter schools.

A Mercedes Vision Van would driveo onto your street and the drones would deliver packages up and down the block, while the driver hand delivers, presumably, those hard - to - drone packages.

A summer power outage draws an urban family up to their building's roof and then down to the street for an impromptu block party.

While most urban pet parents are responsible and do clean up after their pups, there are always a few bad seeds in the Big Apple — and there are certain blocks, usually on less densely populated streets, which seem to attract this breed of dog owner.

Get a close - up look at artists and artisans at work, from the studios in Pendleton Art Center to the more than 20 individual galleries in Over-the-Rhine along Main Street and it's surrounding blocks.

Philadelphia, PA (March 11, 2018)-- The Pennsylvania SPCA's Humane Law Enforcement Team broke up a dog fight in progress on the 1200 block of South 35th Street in South Philadelphia late Saturday, March 10.

That search is up to you... but don't take the easy way out and breed to the Boston in the block down the street!

We increased that to a house or two down the street and worked up to the end of the block and back.