Sentences with phrase «many of the vacant lots»

Signs hung up in front of a vacant lot in Weeksville, Brooklyn, in 2014 by members of 596 Acres, an organization that maps vacant lots in New York City and advocates for community stewardship of th at land.

When I got down there — using the elevator hidden in a fake outhouse in the corner of a vacant lot — I immediately rinsed the dip in a strainer and discovered bits of spinach, onion and two kinds of peppers.

Eventually Poz sits down in the middle of a vacant lot and says «Here we are.»

Don Wenzel, vice president of the S Group, which converted the 2027 - 2029 W. Pierce building, said that the next step for Wicker Park would be new construction on a number of vacant lots that still remain in the area.

Also at 1 p.m., state Sen. Tony Avella and residents call on the city to transfer control of a vacant lot to the parks department so that a new park can be created, 39th Avenue and 234th Street, Queens.

NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer held a press conference in front of a vacant lot on West 115th Street to criticize the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development for «dragging its feet» on creating affordable housing on empty city - owned land.

U.S. Congressman Adriano Espaillat took elected officials and community members on a walking tour this Sun., Mar. 18th of vacant lots where he said that the city could build 100 percent affordable housing.

Buffalo's Fruit Belt has its master plan ready to deal with the avalanche effect of the burgeoning Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus next door, masses of vacant lots available for development and the desire of most residents to stay in the neighborhood.

The city of Syracuse, which has given $ 1.5 million in unrestricted funds in the past, is now looking at restricting some of their funding to demolitions and maintenance of vacant lots.

City housing officials say that many of the vacant lots cited in the audit have issues that make developing them difficult.

New York State Homes and Community Renewal Commissioner James S. Rubin said, «Instead of vacant lots and abandoned houses, the JOSANA neighborhood is now a place where residents can find good, affordable, and attractive homes.

Yesterday, Public Advocate Letitia James and Comptroller Scott Stronger joined Picture the Homeless to unveil legislation calling on the city to conduct a citywide count of vacant lots and buildings — a step they say could help provide homes to the city's 60,000 homeless New Yorkers.

The Albany County Land Bank will receive $ 2.8 million over two years, funding the demolition of up to 20 blighted structures, the rehabilitation of a dozen properties, the initial stabilization of up to 40 homes, and the clearing of the same number of vacant lots for repurposing.

Signs hung up in front of a vacant lot in Weeksville, Brooklyn, in 2014 by members of 596 Acres, an organization that maps vacant lots in New York City and advocates for community stewardship of th at land.

Melissa Alvarez, 15, spent her summer imagining how to transform an eyesore of a vacant lot in her hometown of Philadelphia.

Kolea 3E still offers a nice ocean view over one of the vacant lots.

Picking out the made from the found among the crates and pallets of the vacant lot is tempting but impossible.

I call it «the woods» because that was the name we gave it, though in reality the place we used to play was more of a vacant lot with loads of trees on it, a few old tires, and empty beer cans from older kids the night before.

Natural History of Vacant Lots (California Natural History Guide No. 50)(ISBN: 0520053907 / 0 -520-05390-7) Matthew F. Vessel, Herbert H. Wong

The study, published in the journal Injury Prevention, found its results by using randomized trial design to examine the impact of vacant lot greening.

There were a ton of vacant lots and I used to walk around, knock on doors and talk to people.

Like many cities across the country, St. Louis has thousands of vacant lots and empty buildings.

I own a bunch of vacant lots and a large number of rental properties in Richmond, VA..

As far as vacant lot purchases, yes there are tons of vacant lots available in Detroit and the suburbs from $ 1 all the way up to millions.

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Rosenthal met Hefner at Los Angeles International Airport and drove him to a vacant lot at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Alta Loma Road, telling him, «This is where you should be.»

With an estimated 20 square miles of vacant land, Detroit's abandoned lots are roughly the size of Manhattan according to the Detroit Future City Report.

The state government says it expects to reap about $ 300 million from the sale of all nine lots at Elizabeth Quay, with three offers being considered for the last vacant site.

«There is an understanding that we have a lot of vacant space, brands are changing, and people are talking more about Bonobos» and other e-commerce players growing in bricks and mortar, she said.

The population exodus that Detroit has suffered means a lot of office space was left vacant, and empty buildings are being rehabilitated into working space, says Finney.

Hakim, a frequent partner of Kevin Maloney's Property Markets Group, is developing a commercial building on a vacant Gowanus lot and is trying to sell the 44 - story Long Island City rental tower 1 QPS.

Industry professionals predicted the burn zones would feature more vacant lots for sale than the 88 listed as of February.

After tens of thousands of exchanges, it has never had a report of theft, vandalism, or of someone getting to their exchange home and finding a vacant lot.»

(CNN)- In a vacant lot across from the site of last week's movie theater shooting, 12 white crosses stand solemnly, their arms covered in messages of hope and the ground around them full of flowers.

She chose instead a 17 - year ministry in East Harlem, where the only gardens were «dug out of several feet of garbage and debris in a vacant lot as an annual church project.»

My old man used a razor strop on me from time to time and having no success once paddled himself, with me watching, to demonstrate his failure to rectify my attitude (I had set a vacant lot on fire, smoking cigarettes I'd salvaged from the steps of the Catholic church across the street) In school, you had to bend over and grab your ankles in order to take your licks.

Having no official recognition of any kind, Stanley and his growing ragtag band of followers met in basements and vacant lots and deserted buildings, but God blessed them with incredible success — so much success that their message came to the ears of the king, and he commanded his guard to go and bring Stanley to him.

For example, the city recently passed a «no camping» ordinance to restrict the number of homeless people who were camping in city parks and vacant lots.

On the other corner: a massive Catholic church the congregation of which would litter their steps with cigarette butts after service, which me and a buddy would collect to smoke in a vacant lot nearby and once set it on fire lighting up.

And you keep hearing, years on end, even on thatSunday you sit in the parking lot of the small Episcopal church after the Baptist - based ministry you felt God call you to do has crumbled, and you are so vacant and so wavering that you tell God you're done, you're empty, and God tells you to walk into church.

CNN: Driven by personal tragedy, man builds crosses for Aurora victims, thousands of others In a vacant lot across from the site of last week's movie theater shooting, 12 white crosses stand solemnly, their arms covered in messages of hope and the ground around them full of flowers.

And this I did, my friends; this I did, sprinting out of the house in the direction of church, mostly thrilled at the success of my devious plan thus far, but with a tiny dark roil somewhere near my spleen or gall bladder; and headlong went I through the little alley behind the Murphys» house, and toward the small bedraggled woods behind the firehouse, not even a forest but more like an overgrown vacant lot.

About The Stomping Ground: Local winemakers Jason and Janu Goelz (Jason - Stephens Winery) in partnership with Tim Slater (Sarah's Vineyard) purchased an industrial vacant lot in Gilroy in 2016, with the goal of transforming the seven acre property into the area's ultimate food and wine destination.

A conservation that meant merely a prevalence of tennis courts over vacant lots, of golf courses over swamps and housing developments, of scenic vistas over factories and roadside advertising might well be discounted as a too - expensive luxury.

Snaith's life, erratically remembered, began in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn back when it still had many vacant lots for boys.

There are overgrown lots next to gas stations, vacants, a tour of churches, and shuttered schools.

There will no doubt be a lot of names put forward for the soon to be vacant job of manager at Arsenal Football Club, always assuming that Arsene Wenger does what most people now expect and calls time on his 20 year career in charge of the Gunners.

Since a lot of people are in the mood of assuring things, I can assure you a few things as well: — The reporter that has been assuring Benzema to Arsenal is done, has already back tracked on a few things he's said... takes away from how assured he was in the first place — I can assure you 10 years ago, 0 people thought carragher could be a pundit, let alone be more tolerable than owen — I can assure you the Arsenal number 9 jersey is vacant, that keeps the dream alive — I can assure you the transfer misery will end in 13 days — I can assure you the next 13 days will feel like 13 years....

The village, which many believe has one of the most aggressive annexation policies in DuPage County, has incorporated 28 homes and a vacant parcel along Crescent since 1995 and annexed 64 houses and two vacant lots in Lambert Farms since 1996.

Also, use a vacant lot, setting up cones, so they can swerve in and out of tough spots, getting used to the bike and making sharp turns.

Opponents of a proposed plan to build a tot lot and dog - run in historic Palmer Square urged city officials Monday to look into constructing the amenities on vacant land instead of altering the square's 19th Century character.