Before you turn onto Front Street, you pass a vast empty lawn, the former site of a residential school.
MAPLEWOOD, N.J. — With the announcement that Cory A. Booker would speak in five minutes, a crowd flooded the largely empty lawn at the gay pride celebration here over the weekend.
A crew of gardeners mowed the large, empty lawn.
There was a small group of a few thousand or so people in front of "our" Jumbotron, and another few thousand at the easternmost edge, but other than that there was nothing but empty lawn.
Depending on your timing this summer, you might find the green quiet and undisturbed, with the occasional couple tossing a Frisbee (a game that some people say was invented at Yale) on empty lawns, or you could encounter a lively scene of light-emitting sculptures or funk bands.
Think of a council estate's grounds and you will probably picture empty lawns with the odd shrub, and not a soul using them.
When night fell and neighbors departed, there was Mr. Petty alone, sleeping in an empty bedroom on lawn chair cushions with a blanket, pillow and a life jacket.
The lawn of an empty house, littered with broken bikes and weeds over the summer, has been made pristine once more by its new owners.
Another, less costly option is the construction of two entirely new buildings, a six-story structure on an empty expanse of the North Lawn, below East 48th Street, and a four-story building off site.
