Sentences with phrase «stairwells as»

Class sizes have ballooned, and parents report that some Ward 3 schools have resorted to using stairwells as classroom space and closets as offices.

They aren't very good choices for stairwells as the baby can more easily breach the pressure mounting.

EAST NEW YORK — A rookie police officer fatally shot an unarmed man late Thursday in a «pitch black» Pink Houses stairwell as his girlfriend, whom he had been visiting, watched in horror, officials and a witness said.

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In Beijing, where the official commercial vacancy rate is 30 % but approaches 50 % in many pockets, developers go to great lengths to make empty buildings look occupied, going so far as to paint silhouettes of office workers in stairwells.

Today one is praying on the street openly at any time of day, then will come the day when they will start praying in building stairwells blocking the stairwell and then in public buses and trains blocking the walking path in them, as it exactly happens in India.

He read about the firefighters who marched up the smoke - choked stairwells of the World Trade Center, though many knew they could die; the beloved priest killed while giving last rites as the twin towers collapsed; the passengers on hijacked planes who called their families one last time to say, «I love you.»

As an illustration, Tim explains that at the 1976 U.S. Open Championships in Philadelphia, he became so enraged at the puniness of the two trophies his sons had won that, in front of the promoter, he threw them down a stairwell and broke them.

But, if you decide you don't need the play yard, you can use it as a regular baby gate, a fireplace barrier, or a stairwell barrier, among other things.

Stairwells are very dangerous for children and since so many toddlers like to play there, you must take special concern to make them as safe as possible.

In buildings, for example, new and existing glass surfaces such as facades, shop windows, stairwells and balustrades can be utilised to their full potential.

The former rookie cop convicted in the 2014 shooting death of an unarmed man in a housing - project stairwell dodged prison Tuesday — as his victim's angry kin warned that «justice...

The former NYPD officer convicted of manslaughter for shooting an unarmed public housing resident as he entered a darkened stairwell in Brooklyn in 2014 does not pose a threat to the public and should not be sentenced to prison, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson, who prosecuted him.

A diagram depicting the view of the stairwell in which Akai Gurley was shot was presented as evidence during Officer Peter Liang's trial.

Outside the chamber, in an ornate stairwell that served as the arena for supporters and opponents throughout Friday, most shouted «Yes We Can» while a smaller group stood in a circle with heads bowed in prayer.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams seemed to rebuke NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton on the airwaves this morning for labeling the shooting death of Akai Gurley at the hands of Officer Peter Liang in the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project as «an accident.»

More than 20 stairwell covers have already been installed in lower Manhattan as part of the New York City subway system's Super Storm Sandy recovery efforts,» said Fortune, «With the RTP, we are capable of controlling the vastness of danger, damage and even inconvenience to the public due to flooding events.»

Kry came up with the idea a few years ago, as a way to do something about the blank hallways and stairwells in the building that houses his lab.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- Toward the end of her month - long stay in Rhode Island Hospital, as she began to recover from eight surgeries on her left leg in two weeks, Tori Kinamon of Peachtree City, Ga., was up on crutches, trying out a stairwell where a window faced northeast.

I've performed on many stages including some not so normal stages such as malls, parks, fairs, stairwells, woods, garages, streets, and sidewalks, etc..

The central fight sequence takes place in a winding stairwell, as Lorraine attempts to escort an asset out of East Berlin, only to be ambushed by USSR operatives.

Moonee, Scooty (Christopher Rivera), and Dicky (Aiden Malik) have their routines — hiding under the stairwell outside the hotel's main office, impatiently waiting for each other so that they can go play, and calling out to Dicky, who lives in a different hotel down the street, as he approaches, as if the act of yelling his name repeatedly will somehow make him run faster.

Muntean lets his film unfold at a deliberate pace, letting Vali slowly insert himself into Sandu's personal space as time goes on (first outside by his car, then chatting up his family members in the stairwell and eventually winding up hanging out with his son in his apartment).

In a recent study from the National Center for Education Statistics, students between the ages of 12 and 18 reported nearly twice as many bullying incidents in hallways and stairwells — where they spend a fraction of their time — as in other school areas like cafeterias or playgrounds.

The day she got the news, she stood by the stairwell on the first floor, looking shell - shocked as she watched students pass by.

What may result are decisions as obvious as expanding the presence of teachers and other adults to monitor hallways, restrooms, and stairwells during class changes, a simple step that can have a greater day - to - day impact on safety than anything else school leaders do.

Just as Jimmy finishes replacing the screws in the hinge, we hear footsteps on the old cement stairwell.

As we headed for the stairwell, he murmured in my ear what he was about this very evening, and my part in it.

Sigrid fishes out the coin purse from her bag as she emerges from the U-Bahn stairwell, and drops a few groschen into his cup.

The master policy covers areas of the building such as hallways, the roof, the laundry room, basement, entry ways and stairwells.

You also have decreased liability risks because any injuries sustained by guests outside the boundaries of your unit, such as on walkways or in stairwells, will be covered by the condo association's master plan.

The hotel was opened in 2013 and is clearly a refurbishment job, as the stairwells and doors are a bit rough around the edges and don't match the style of the rooms.

I grabbed a small piece of the focaccia and raised it to my mouth, but just as I was about to take a bite a loud noise came from the stairwell.

Ocean View and Ocean View Deluxe cabins sit on the upper deck, with internal stairwell access to the main deck, as well as external access to the top deck and dive deck.

Notice: As a continual search of bettering our guest experience we are currently undergoing renovation works in our bedrooms, corridors and stairwells.

The second and third - floor units are accessible by stairwells, as there is no elevator located on the property.

There are just nine rooms in the main house, a contemporary, handsome house with open lanais and stairwells situated around a central courtyard (the building also has a theater - room and library); a couple of hundred feet away, there are five additional yurts, all with modern conveniences and furnishings - they're not as fancy as the rooms in the main house, which has antique plantation tables, beds, and dressers along with spacious bathrooms, but they're funky and reasonably priced (they have a private toilet and sink -... MORE guests use the spa locker room and showers for bathing).

As Kate Wilson, a systems engineer turned reluctant heroine, it's up to you to stop their insidious plot as the ship floods, outsmarting and outmaneuvering the terrorist as you navigate corridors, stairwells and elevator shafts turned potential watery graveAs Kate Wilson, a systems engineer turned reluctant heroine, it's up to you to stop their insidious plot as the ship floods, outsmarting and outmaneuvering the terrorist as you navigate corridors, stairwells and elevator shafts turned potential watery graveas the ship floods, outsmarting and outmaneuvering the terrorist as you navigate corridors, stairwells and elevator shafts turned potential watery graveas you navigate corridors, stairwells and elevator shafts turned potential watery graves.

The sound work features a number of voices, each emanating from a different stairwell landing, mumbling as thoughts are formed.

As part of its ongoing series of commissions for the Stairwell, The Drawing Center has asked New York artist Inka Essenhigh to create a site - specific wall drawing.

The exhibition rewards a bit of work at the gallery, such as climbing the stairs toward the second floor for a better view in the stairwell of Blue Blush, a horizontal work that reads more as a still life than the figural suggestion of the vertical paintings.

Glass mirrors in Harumi Yukutake's Paracosmos (2016) curve around the main circular stairwell of the Singapore Art Museum, dazzling the eye as light hits their multiple reflective surfaces.

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His abstractions take as their inspiration fragments of observed reality: the way shadows on a stairwell establish their own staccato rhythm or afternoon light falling on an architectural detail creates random angles.

As this is advertised as a free gallery i went along to check it out... there were 3 or 4 paintings on a wall behind a stairwell that were free to view, all the exhibitions were # 20 or morAs this is advertised as a free gallery i went along to check it out... there were 3 or 4 paintings on a wall behind a stairwell that were free to view, all the exhibitions were # 20 or moras a free gallery i went along to check it out... there were 3 or 4 paintings on a wall behind a stairwell that were free to view, all the exhibitions were # 20 or more.

Félix González - Torres curtains the stairs with gold beads, just as his lights fill the stairwell at the new Whitney Museum — as if Frank Lloyd Wright and Renzo Piano stood along a continuum of official museum architecture.

Like the Kabuki jazz - dancers who led visitors from one installation to another in Kelley's retrospective as it was installed in Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, Charlemagne Palestine's installations in the museum's stairwell connect each of the curators» floors, to humorously unsettling effect: they consist of sad stuffed animals sitting atop speakers that play droning organ music.

As visitors moved from level to level, the sounds merged in the stairwells, but experiencing the music in its totality remained elusive.

I noticed a lot of stairwells in Italy, where people would cut holes in the walls as a banister instead of having a banister protruding out.

The videos, exhibited on monitors on the three different floors of P.S. 1's central stairwell, use video techniques such as the close - up, jump - cut, accelerated and slowed images, and compressed or stretched time and space.

Moving from its basement through the stairwells (partially renovated and often bearing relics of previous eras) and into a series of found and constructed interiors, the video treats the entire building as both a stage and a metaphorical body.