The phrase "a block from this" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a distance from a specific location, often in urban contexts.
Example: "The coffee shop is just a block from this intersection, making it a convenient stop for a quick drink."
Alternatives: "one block away from this" or "a short distance from this".
Restaurants, bars and boutiques line Castro Street and 18th Street, both a block from this house.
Bars and restaurants along Dearborn Street are a block from this building.
"I live a block from this hospital, and unless it was a life-and-death situation, I wouldn't go there".
The 55-acre Candler Park is about a block from this house and has a swimming pool and a golf course.
On Nov. 2, federal agents found about 32 tons of marijuana and another tunnel less than a block from this one.
A block from this condo is a 221-acre city park, Grover-Archbold, with streams, forest, and hiking and biking trails.
WHAT -- 4-bedroom house HOW MUCH -- $40,000 Built in 1916, a block from the Gulf of Mexico, this 2,400-square-foot house was made of lumber salvaged after a 1915 hurricane.
"The girls were less than a block from the house when this camera captured them riding by, important to note they were riding away from Meyers Lake". Investigators are examining the footage for clues that could lead to the discovery of the missing girls who, authorities say, were abducted twelve days ago after riding their bikes near Meyers Lake in Evansdale.
WHAT -- 3-bedroom house HOW MUCH -- $660,000 On a quiet tree-lined street a block from the docks of Stirling Harbor, this recently renovated clapboard Victorian house is approximately 1,500 square feet.
The house sits half a block from the flood plain in this suburban pocket just outside the city limits, but when torrential rains overwhelmed nearby rivers last August, the water swept in, rising five feet high.
The area gets a little better just a few steps away from the drunken horde, with a few decent locations like the Southwestern-horror-punk bar Casino El Camino offering legendary burgers and Bloody Marys, as well as Easy Tiger, half a block from the highway that divides this downtown district from the East Side.
