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Word: downtowner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After running six blocks to my house, I came in two pitches before Bucky Dent took Mike Torrez downtown. Soon, the Yanks were the American League East champs...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: A Bronx Yankee in King Roger's Court | 8/2/1988 | See Source »

...need to take an Eastern shuttle back to New York. I have to get back on a Lexington Avenue IRT headed downtown and get off at the 161st St. stop. I have to go back to the box seats behind first base, watch Mattingly turn over a double play and then watch him hit the upper deck in the bottom of the ninth...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: A Bronx Yankee in King Roger's Court | 8/2/1988 | See Source »

Enthusiasm for skywalks has not been ubiquitous. In the 1970s, when corporate headquarters and shoppers were abandoning its downtown, Hartford came very close to erecting a skywalk system as a way, its boosters hoped, to revitalize the city's downtown. Local opposition, on both fiscal and philosophical grounds, prevented all but a few skywalks from being built. Meanwhile, downtown Hartford has undergone a renaissance on its own. A 1982 / Seattle ordinance prohibits any skybridge that blocks a vista or reduces street traffic -- in effect, all skywalks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Fast Life Along the Skywalks | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...suburbs because they want low anxiety," Portman says. "We must bring them back to the center city. The pedestrian bridge is a part of that." Now, however, Atlanta zoning officials are considering a recommendation by the 300-member Central Area Study group to prohibit further skywalk construction downtown. As the novelty value of skywalks palls and as more cities realize that downtown vitality is a function of far more than ultraconvenient shopping, urbanites can only hope the fad will continue to fade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Fast Life Along the Skywalks | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

Skywalks, those enclosed bridges linking downtown buildings, provide warmth in cold weather; they also cast a chill on urban life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

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