Closing those plants also decimated surrounding commercial districts, leaving whole blocks of stores and restaurants vacant.
On the Avenida Reforma, near the Paseo Bravo, is a block of stores selling cowboy boots and Western shirts.
This hapless everyman, Koistinen (Janne Hyytiainen), a night watchman for a security company, patrols a block of stores that include a fancy jewelry shop ripe for burglary.
Correction: April 4, 2004, Sunday A front-page article in this section on March 21 about a burned-out block of stores in Sunnyside, Queens, misstated the location of the most severe damage.
At Happy Land, the property owner, Mr. DiLorenzo, leased an entire block of stores to a second company, Little Peach Realty, for 30 years, which in turn leased a storefront to Elias Colon, the Happy Land operator.
There is also a trove of liability-protection photographs starting early in the 20th century documenting whole city blocks of stores -- and even their contents -- during the process of tunnel-blasting beneath them, to protect against spurious damage claims.
One more block, 20th Avenue, is a hub of stores and cafes where locals have their lunch.
That he succeeded, he said, was a tribute to the school's disciplined, family environment, despite a setting in the city's hardscrabble port vicinity amid blocks of liquor stores and bail bond shops.
Five straight days she spent in front of the television, staring at crumbled banks and hospitals, whole blocks of stores in flames, severed rail lines and expressways.
