A small cluster of relatives gathered at the police checkpoint at a corner near the theater.
He speculated that there was once a police checkpoint at the corner of that name and that the farther away one got from the checkpoint the more perilous things became, until the spot where the thieves were so ruthless they stripped people bare.
The drive back is slow going, with checkpoints on every corner.
By 2010, he had opened a place of his own around the corner from Checkpoint Charlie, Restaurant Tim Raue, but he wanted it to be different from the formal, classical, French-influenced dining rooms that he believed were draining the joy out of German fine dining.
I hear her first in a refreshingly quiet side street round the corner from Checkpoint Charlie, which is a fairly dismal miasma of tourists clustering for selfies round two American guards, dressed in full cold war regalia, saluting to order in front of a pile of sandbags.
By 1995 the grandson had his eye on one of three lots in the former East Berlin, to the east of the old Checkpoint Charlie, at the corner of Friedrichstrasse and Lindenstrasse.
Soldiers toting Chinese-made T-56 assault riffles man checkpoints at almost every corner.
As he neared a government checkpoint, he found himself cornered by soldiers who were pursuing a young man.
Young men in fluorescent-banded jackets stand on every corner, operating checkpoints as part of a growing neighborhood watch venture that General Petraeus has seized upon and branded "Guardians" or "Concerned Citizens".
While shoppers and employees heading to the luxury stores are generally permitted to pass the police checkpoints at the street corner and make their way toward the Gucci Store or Tiffany on the block, others are turned away and told to walk on the opposite side of the street.
