Hester Gardens, at 158 Hester Street, is just two blocks east of Baxter, and has penthouse apartments priced as high as $1.67 million and offers granite countertops and hardwood floors, but it gives itself away as a development geared to the Chinese-American market because it lacks what would otherwise be a basic amenity in a building of its kind — a gym.
We need government policies that ensure that technology is not a privilege but a basic amenity.
Most respondents (51.9 %) live in households were (almost) all basic amenities were present, only 12.9%% of them lived in a household where only few of the basic amenities were present.
The 3.75-square-mile (six-square-km) site was strictly a commerce-free zone, with two exceptions to prove the rule: first, you had to buy a ticket to get in (which could cost $300 for the whole week and paid for the site, the Portaloos and a few basic amenities); and, second, at the central camp you could buy coffee, tea and ice.
The reason transit is a public service rather than a private operation is because service is assumed to be maintained as a basic civic amenity, whether it is profitable for the transit provider or not.
The Lubicon Cree, a non-treaty nation lacking a reserve and basic amenities like running water, allege that billions of dollars in minerals, oil, and gas have been removed from their territories without consent.
The economy is growing too slowly to create many jobs, even as much of the rest of Africa is booming.Angry protests about a lack of basic amenities are common, although there has been a steady increase in the reach of municipal services.
(AP) IRAN: TEHRAN PROTEST About 1,000 demonstrators burned tires and blocked a main road in a Tehran suburb to protest what they say is a lack of basic amenities, witnesses said.
The weekend turned into a struggle for basic amenities – food, shelter, toilets – as rain turned the field into a muddy quagmire.
If a veteran has a bad credit score or lacks basic amenities like a refrigerator to furnish a rental property, she can be disqualified from using a voucher.
Modi – a Hindu nationalist hardliner – called on voters in the northern constituency of Amethi, represented by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, to "break ties with the [Gandhi] family" over a lack of basic amenities as the crowd roared approval.
