Sentence examples for become downtown from inspiring English sources

Mr. Hoffman must marvel: How did this whippet-thin whippersnapper, some 14 years his junior, become downtown Manhattan's farm-to-table guru, enshrined by Time magazine as one of the world's 100 most influential people and affirmed by the Obamas themselves, who used Date Night to dine at his Greenwich Village restaurant, Blue Hill?

It had somehow become Downtown's version of a 'snow day;' a day when everyone on that one street (since the adjoining streets were all still packed with shoppers) got to take off work and relax for a bit, with one sad, if somewhat wonderfully ironic, exception.

In the early 20th century, the Ismailia district became downtown Cairo and expanded toward the square, which was redesigned with a roundabout at the southern end to improve the flow of cars.

There she met the ruler of Hawaii, King Kamehameha IV, who offered her several parcels of land, including one that stretched from what became downtown Honolulu to Diamond Head in Waikiki.

By 1985, with a piece at N.Y.C.'s The Kitchen called "Current Trends in Racism in Modern America" (featuring young artists like John Zorn and Christian Marclay before they became downtown avant-garde luminaries), he trusted his method enough to craft an entire piece from scratch, relying solely on his manipulation of spontaneous improvisation.

In the late 1860s, Alonzo Horton promoted a move to the bayside area, which he called "New Town" and which became Downtown San Diego.

Maitland's downtown may actually become a downtown after City Council approved a controversial mixed-use development at a special meeting that lasted into the early morning.

It has become a downtown beacon of cool.

"The South Bronx will become the Downtown Bronx, believe you me," said George Rodriguez, who is leading the campaign.

"Eating It" began in 1995 and has since become a downtown institution, regularly drawing a standing-room-only crowd to Luna's orange-walled back room.

Why Seattle became synonymous with coffee at all, to the degree that the glass windows of a 1970s-vintage Starbucks have become a downtown tourist photo-op, is a chicken-and-egg question if ever there were one.