Owners and patrons of a strip of auto parts stores here said variously that they heard an explosion and shooting coming from the general direction of the village mosque a few hundred yards to the south on the highway.
In parts of the flooded area, a strip of auto shops and other businesses on Jerome Avenue between Tremont Avenue and the Cross Bronx Expressway, the water level reached as high as a foot and a half, sloshing nearly to the hoods of parked cars.
The airy plant-filled bar, which is tucked along a strip of auto-body shops, recalls California — or, at least, a New Yorker's version of it.
After it was over, Onara said, Victaya called her mother on a cellular phone from outside the club, which is on a commercial strip of auto body shops and salvage yards.
The abundance of churches in Wakefield is not limited to this block, which sits opposite a desolate strip of auto body shops.
Barbie Snodgrass had agreed to meet me at a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet, on a strip of fast-food restaurants and auto shops west of downtown Columbus, Ohio, but she didn't have much time to talk.
SHUFFLE through a mass of car advertising or drive to your local strip of auto showrooms and the pitches glare at you: "0% APR Financing," "$0 Down Payment," "Rebates up to $5,700".
The easy-to-whiz-by strip of auto body shops and mercados has transformed into a mecca of mod.
Take Marion Smith, a 37-year-old teacher from Philadelphia who had been searching up and down the Auto Mall, a strip of dealerships along Essington Avenue near the Philadelphia International Airport, and was getting frustrated finding anything in her price range.
An auto parts store that faces a strip of well-groomed commercial buildings is a reminder of the days before the most recent wave of gentrification.
The station occupies a sometimes desolate section of the Bronx, with a strip of pizza shops and stores on one side and a dark pathway to Boston Road, past auto shops and an overgrown lot, on another.
