Word: sides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...According to police reports, the circumstances of this incident were unusual," they wrote. "From the evidence we have been given, there is no reason to believe that the Bow Street area is less safe than other side streets in Harvard Square...
...From the evidence we have been given, there is no reason to believe that the Bow Street area is less safe than other side streets in Harvard Square...
...West Side Highway is the road that runs along the Hudson River--or, really, stumbles along the Hudson River--on the western edge of Manhattan. By chance, it once gave me a strong intimation of mortality. In 1973 portions of the highway collapsed, triggering years of arguments about replacing it with a gargantuan project called Westway and then more years of constant construction whose purpose has never been apparent. Sitting in a traffic jam maybe 15 years after the original collapse, I was suddenly hit with the realization that I was not going to live to see the West Side...
...Yorkers, in other words, having your name on the West Side Highway is the equivalent of having your name on the IRS building where taxpayers are instructed to show up, in possession of all financial records and receipts for the previous 14 years, to talk about their audits. This may be the reason that until last week I never heard anyone mention the official name of the road (or at least half of it, from 72nd Street down): the Miller Elevated Highway. Even New Yorkers will cut a guy some slack sooner or later, and I like to think that...
...Borough President, was mentioned in passing last week because Mayor Rudolph Giuliani--living proof that not all American boys absorbed Joe DiMaggio's example of doing whatever you do with grace and dignity--took the occasion of Joltin' Joe's death to push the idea of naming the West Side Highway the Joe DiMaggio Highway, and Governor George Pataki resisted that in favor of a freeway in the Bronx. The agendas reflected in the argument were theirs, of course, rather than DiMaggio's; Pataki wants the Bronx Bombers to stay where they are, and Giuliani would like to see Yankee...