The side-by-side town houses were "vacant and decrepit" for years, said Elizabeth Lee Sample, a broker at Brown Harris Stevens.
Speaking as a preternaturally decrepit 40-year-old, I struggle to imagine the circumstance in which I'd wear anything sparkly, let alone a polo shirt.
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani announced the city's plan for the Kingsbridge Armory, a decrepit, 80-year-old structure that fills an entire block off Kingsbridge Road and Jerome Avenue, in his State of the City address in January.
It is integral to why the planned replacement for the decrepit 56-year-old span that connects Westchester and Rockland Counties is expected to cost more than $4 billion and why visionary state officials are now stuck with what may seem like a short-sighted political decision made a half century ago.
(If you miss the old-school approach, you can see the Met's charmingly decrepit, forty-year-old staging of Ponchielli's "La Gioconda," which has been dug out of storage to serve as a vehicle for the diva stylings of Olga Borodina and Violeta Urmana).
Events like the capsizing of the Prestige (a decrepit 26-year-old tanker that spilled 70,000 tons of crude off the coast of Spain last November) have oil producers demanding greater transparency and reliability, says Jefferies & Co. senior vice president Anthony Argyropoulos.
But Enbridge's 38-page final reply is as weak as their decrepit 38 year-old pipe whose risk of rupture sits at an alarming 90%.
Why, though, would you get someone to smooth out the pocks and wrinkles of a 50-year-old drunken mess to the point that it looks like he's slathered his face in foundation for an article that is basically an extended potshot at how he's a decrepit 50-year-old drunkard?
Evidently Congress's leaders reckon the supposed scandal has already run its course.He replaces an 81-year-old, S.M. Krishna, who had looked decrepit in recent years, and deferred to Mr Singh on policy.
Chinese friends who are among the wave of new homeowners these days often complain that their buildings look decrepit after five years.
