Charming, charming, charming" by NPR.
But, he added, "if you happen to be eating on Smith Street and Heath Ledger walks in, who doesn't glance?" For years, Boerum Hill was a charming, if lightly trafficked, stretch of brownstone-lined streets (and housing projects) tucked between Brooklyn Heights and Park Slope.
This our hero pilots around a series of stomach-dropping bends, with Alfa Romeos in pursuit and one car diving smartly off the side of a mountain: all in all, a charming snapshot of ordinary Italian traffic.
Top left: The contemplative gentleman with his hands in his pockets in the charming emerald park seems wholly unaware of the traffic swirling beneath his shoes.
Charming outdoor tables caught our attention but the traffic noise pushed us inside.
Not only are the boulevards reminiscent of Paris, but so too are the bridges of the Potomac and the sidewalks on which charming outdoor cafes can sit without the disturbance of traffic.
When she recently decided to open a store, she chose a charming block on Broome Street, between Ludlow and Orchard, that lacks the traffic of the SoHo blocks farther west.
Beijing – once, apparently, a charming ancient city – has been torn down and replaced with a traffic-jammed assortment of functional concrete blocks, interspersed with the occasional stunning pieces of modern architecture.
