As a result of appeals filed by Theresa and others, the Bowser administration has proposed changes to the city's land-use policies to block avenues for what it considers nuisance lawsuits.
Many of the drapery shops, drugstores, shoe stores, dress shops and stationery stores that used to occupy the 180 retail spaces that line the four-block avenue have given way to Saks Fifth Avenue, Baccarat, The Gap and Gap Kids, Banana Republic, Henry Lehr, The Limited, Sam Goody, Pier I, Laura Ashley, The Door Store, Starbucks, Best & Company, J. Crew and Restoration Hardware, among others.
I remember the riot cops totally blocking Avenue A and everyone throwing fruit from the nearby grocery.
The company's patents, they asserted, gave it "a monopoly on clinical testing of its genes," blocking "avenues of scientific inquiry" and creating "barriers to scientific progress and medical care".
The optimistic spirit of the town is apparent in the street plan adopted in 1811, a grid of blocks, avenues, streets, and lots extending to the northern reaches of the island.
The reaction model assumes that self-employment amongst members of migrant minority groups is a reaction against racism and blocked avenues of social mobility, a means of surviving in the margins of a white-dominated society (see also Sahin 2012).
And now large parts of the capital of the north-western state of Tachira look as if they are under siege, with barricades blocking avenues and the entrances to shopping districts, neighbourhoods and residential complexes.
JOSHUA HERNANDEZ THE BLOCK DeKalb Avenue, between Washington and Waverly Avenues, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn THE STATE The state of our block, in one word, is bad.
At Houston Street, one side of the block says Avenue A, the other Essex Street.
Meanwhile, leaks suggest plans are still under way to block the avenue with a larger and more permanent commercial structure.
Residents also worry about a new driveway cutting into the block, First Avenue between 27th and 28th Streets, to allow cars to pull up to the new doors.
