Soil samples are taken by starting in one corner of a block and working in a line diagonally across the block.
"A structure might be making a positive difference on one corner of a block in a hard-pressed community, or it might be an icon, like the Statue of Liberty, welcoming and uplifting thousands of visitors and travelers each and every day," he said.
On the far corner of a block that looks sketchier than it actually is, the Trestle Inn is more than just a whiskey-a-go-go: stop in for a local IPA, or one of those fancy drinks where they set light to the orange oil.
"Our house in Pontypool was on the corner of a block.
The house sits on the corner of a block with occupied houses all around it.
We're standing on the corner of Mohammed Mahmoud Street, a block back from Tahrir Square, where protesters are milling around a small bonfire of refuse and pitching the occasional Molotov cocktail up into the scorched exterior of a school building that's been under occupation for the past 24 hours by state security forces.
To knock off the corners and angles of a block, a tool called a pitcher is driven into the surface with a heavy iron hammer.
Mr. Lancaster, 62, had maintained a quiet presence, living in a little trailer at the corner of a tiny block of Rockaway Beach Boulevard.
Each day, retired war veterans and young mothers drop off their dirty clothes at the quiet little laundry, which sits on a quiet corner of a quiet block in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn.
The 10,000-square-foot shop is on the corner of a city block owned by Marciano.
