Sentence examples for city condemned from inspiring English sources

The city condemned the park in 1890 to make room for the Jerome Park Reservoir.

A CENTURY ago the art historian Karl Scheffler called Berlin "a city condemned forever to becoming and never to being".

And so I despair: is our cash-strapped city condemned to filling in the same two million holes again and again?

The aura of doom was enhanced by the characters' visit to the city condemned to be flooded by the finished dam.

After the raves and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the roof fell in, the floors gave way, termites took over and the city condemned the building.

After the city condemned the property in November 2000, the homeowners went to state court to argue that taking their property would be unconstitutional.

The following year he suggested that the city condemn the 6 blocks bounded by 46th and 49th Streets and 1st and 5rd Avenues.

When a city condemns private property to make way for a public highway, that is a classic "taking" for which government must provide "just compensation" under the Constitution's Fifth Amendment.

The city's health commissioner said yesterday that he was recommending that the city condemn the 900 cars that were towed from the World Trade Center site after the towers came down.

Most important, Mr. Ferrer said, he would have the city condemn the dilapidated Bronx Terminal Market, a 32-acre site on the south side of the stadium, to build a waterfront park along the Harlem River and 450,000 square feet of commercial space.

The residents said they either wanted their zoning to be left residential or to have the city condemn the entire neighborhood and give them fair compensation for their houses.