While its blocks lack the heavy-hitting retailing names like those on neighboring avenues, including Barneys Co-op, Ann Taylor or Loehmann's, Amsterdam is in the enviable position of offering some of the largest retail spaces available on the Upper West Side.
Margarita Lopez, a Councilwoman from the East Village, cited a 1998 case in which she said work on a BFC project damaged a neighboring building on Avenue B, at East 12th Street.
Throughout the ordeal, the kidnapper dealt only with the Spring Lake police, calling them just minutes after the abduction and directing them to a flagpole on Third Avenue in neighboring Spring Lake Heights, where the ransom note was found, attached with tape.
It was just past two in the morning and steel gates rattled on Avenue A as neighboring stores locked up for the night.
Neighboring property owners grumbled.
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The new zone will be anchored by Central High, with more than 900 students, and include six neighboring schools: Burnet Street School of Science and Technology, Cleveland School of Publishing and Technology, Eighteenth Avenue School of Science and Technology, Newton Street School of Humanities, Quitman Street Community School and Sussex Avenue School of Arts and Sciences.
The assessment area would extend along both sides of Valley Boulevard from Almansor street to the western city limits and include neighboring lots on Atlantic Boulevard and Garfield and Fremont avenues.
Like other supersize hotels lining Collins Avenue north of 44th Street, including the neighboring Eden Roc, another shiny Lapidus edifice, it became as dated as Grandma's minaudière.
Twenty-four apartments in an adjoining building at 270 St. Nicholas Avenue were evacuated on Tuesday, and a neighboring church, the Soul Saving Station, has been closed temporarily.
