Sentence examples for blocks of brick from inspiring English sources

Twelve whole blocks of brick apartment buildings, about 2,000 apartments, are empty; the rest, only partly occupied.

That effort at renewal mowed down blocks of brick multistory buildings, the very sort of mixed-use streetscape the city now hopes to bring back.

A disastrous fire in 1889 consumed the entire business district, destroying some 30 square blocks of brick and wood buildings as well as the city's railroad terminals.

They can span much wider openings because they can be made from small, easily carried blocks of brick or stone, as opposed to a massive, monolithic stone lintel.

He came to the area as pastor of St . Marys Roman Catholic Church in 1985, leaving behind a South Bronx parish ringed by desolate blocks of brick and rubble.

In former boomtowns like Johnstown, the resentment toward the big companies is not exactly forgotten but is almost absorbed as part of a communal subconscious, expressed with a wave of the hand at the looming smokestacks and endless blocks of brick foundry crumbling at the heart of the city.

In its nighttime version, the four blocks of bricks and asphalt on South Street are crowded with vans, forklifts and merchants.

— For the residents of a block of brick row houses here on North 13th Street, Wednesday night went from ordinary to horrific in one unexpected flash.

The killings here occurred on Lex Street, a short block of brick row houses, where many of the houses have been abandoned.

Residents of the quiet block of brick apartments and a few single-family houses expressed shock over the child's death.

It shows an ornate older building and a newer block of brick row houses, both painted in subdued tones with great attention to detail.