Parts of it — but not all — were leveled to make way for the Cross Bronx Expressway.
In a travesty of 1970s-era Soviet-style urban planning, large swaths of the Old City were leveled to make room for wider, car-friendlier avenues.
Now it is being leveled to make way for a $200 million complex of offices, upscale housing and a hotel on a total of 90 acres.
European conservation groups have been warning that tropical forests are being leveled to make way for oil palm plantations, destroying habitat for orangutans and Sumatran rhinoceroses while also releasing greenhouse gases.
Other more-anonymous brick boxes, where seafood was stashed and baking powder was packed and fruit was put into crates, were leveled to make way for chic apartments, high-class restaurants and a better class of bars.
Seventeen years later, MGM's legendary New York streets, where "The Band Wagon" and "Blackboard Jungle" had been filmed, were leveled to make room for a tract of modest two-story condominiums in Culver City.
While downhill skiing is hardly healthy for the environment -- forests are leveled to make pistes, water is drained to make snow and energy is wasted on chairlifts -- Mr. Thorne said he believed the global ski industry could work together for climate change.
A house purchased on Oenoke Ridge for $865,000 was leveled to make way for a new house that sold for $2.85 million, and a property on West Hills Road that sold for $765,000 was resold for $2.33 million after the existing house was replaced with a new one.
These hills originally consisted of high, narrow ridges dissected by steep but shallow and short canyons but were leveled to make way for buildings.
