Sentences with phrase «of flophouses»

An operator of flophouses catering to addicts, who was the subject of an investigation last year by The New York Times, was arrested on money laundering and Medicaid fraud charges brought by the state attorney general's office.

But undeterred, he begs and borrows the funds (mostly from his elderly mom) to try again, this time in the cockroach - infested Lower East Side bar of the flophouse Palace Hotel.

Not exact matches

Several years removed from getting a master's degree in playwriting from Yale, I had been in and out of detoxes and rehabs, ERs, sobering - up stations and flophouses.

Further up the Croisette, for instance, the rival «directors» fortnight» sidebar finds space for The Florida Project — a heart - stopping portrait of child poverty, evocatively played out around Orlando's flophouse motels.

«I mean, all of the above angles sound pretty juicy, and yet not a one of «em — nor «Sherlock found in a flophouse!»

A sensation at the Cannes, Toronto and New York film festivals (it opens Oct. 6), the movie is set at the Magic Castle motel near Orlando, a sun - kissed lavender flophouse where Halley (Bria Vinaite), a ne'er - do - well sexpot with exploding rose tattoos and hair dyed the color of fiberglass, lives with her 6 - year - old daughter, Moonee (the remarkable Brooklynn Kimberly Prince).

Straddling the Siem Reap River which flows from Phnom Kulen, the town itself is home to a couple of minor sites of interest, some interesting shopping, excellent dining and a full range of accommodation options, from $ 4 flophouses to $ 3,000 - plus a night luxury hotels.

The Greenwich Village of the Dylans» time (both Bob and Thomas) may not exist anymore — replace the divey flophouses and hip coffehouses that once were with luxury boutiques and fratty bars — but as this Telegraph article discovers, it's still possible to visit some of the famed spots made legend by Dylan (Bob) and -LSB-...]

But the area is moving upmarket and every year more of the old 200 Baht / night flophouses disappear and is replaced by concrete bungalows with air - conditioning.

It's now a rather tired stretch of old flophouses, bars and hotels, though the location is fairly convenient to Lumpini MRT station, Lumpini Park and the greater Silom area.

He has also hosted Reuben's Flophouse, evenings of musical variety in numerous downtown spaces, such as Max Fish and Wonderbar, as well as performing for many fundraising benefits.

The most famous of these was The Dante Hotel 1973 — 4, a room - size environment that stayed open around the clock for nine months at a San Francisco flophouse.