Lilia is cleaning her already immaculate apartment, dusting the drapes, a table, her husband's photograph.
Her living room windows blew in, shattering glass everywhere and filling the apartment with dust.
Four hours later, the only things left in my beloved 600-square-foot Upper West Side apartment were dust balls and a broom.
And here is an unprecedented demonstration of Kirill's personal influence: this month he won a $600,000 judgment against a former cabinet minister — and longtime personal friend of President Vladimir Putin — for damage caused to his apartment by dust generated during renovations to the minister's apartment one floor below.
If the child lived in an apartment, a dust sample was collected in the stairwell and XRF measurements were also performed.
"We did a job once because a contractor in an adjacent apartment had caused dust in a woman's Park Avenue apartment.
The tale had all the hallmarks of a baroque Paul Bowles short story, set among the remaindered possessions of Bowles himself: a film director gets a call from a stranger, who says he has stumbled across an original print of the filmmaker's long-lost first film in a windowless Tangier apartment, coated in dust and insect powder.
Frankly, I'm pining for my "real" bike that is currently being stored in the garage in my apartment building, gathering dust and rusting from disuse (kind of like what happens to our bodies if we don't use them).
Whether to Test Apartments How much dust and debris from the World Trade Center blew into nearby offices and apartment buildings is one of the most persistent questions of 9/11's aftermath.
On the morning of Sept. 11, one Manhattan couple, Beth Kseniak and her husband, Walter H. Owen, left their TriBeCa apartment and saw dust-covered people streaming up the West Side Highway.
