Three years ago, when Tabla opened to raves for Mr. Cardoz's exciting Indian-fusion food, Bread Bar was an awkward ground-floor adjunct with an identity crisis.
The institution's peripatetic existence has included stops at the Time & Life Building, West 53rd Street, West 55th Street and most recently, 12 years at 1 Lincoln Square, an awkward ground-floor space that it will continue to use for exhibitions and limited displays of the permanent collection.
Then there's Brian, who occupies the awkward middle ground.
Sometimes, however, a political event falls into the awkward middle ground between those realms.
SYRIA'S al-Qaeda franchise, Jabhat al-Nusra, has long occupied an awkward middle ground in the country.
Both Timberlake and Thicke have reached an awkward middle ground in their careers, caught somewhere between Bieber and Bublé.
Sometimes, though, a day's worth of polling falls into the awkward middle ground between being a good day for one of the candidates and revealing little new information about the state of the campaign.
Looming over these bits and pieces is the lunatic tangle of the ArcelorMittal Orbit, a monument to a steel magnate, which is now strewn with an assortment of breeze-block sheds at its base and encircled by a big fence, making it as awkward at ground level as it is on the skyline.
It's this awkward middle ground between a feature phone's crap OS and a smart phone's full-fledged one.
Too old to be a child yet too young to be a teenager, she occupies a somewhat awkward middle ground in perception; a confusing yet exciting area in life that Brooklyn-based artist Lori Nelson imagines as a fantastical parallel universe filled with ghouls and magic.
