Sentence examples for down-at-heel district from inspiring English sources

Carnival season was under way in Antigua this week but in Villa, a down-at-heel district of the capital, St John's, the atmosphere was not particularly festive.

The snails were the first surprise on my foodie tour of the city, which started at the huge covered market in the slightly down-at-heel district of Cais do Sodré.

That took chutzpah, for though many embraced the idea and welcomed a dash of colour to what was then a down-at-heel district, race relations in Notting Hill were a constant difficulty.

Growing up in Melbourne's notoriously down-at-heel district of St Albans, dubbed the crime capital of Australia, the brothers picked up skateboarding young and quickly rose through the ranks, with the "all-or-nothing" mantra they applied to all aspects of life.

Nearby, art and culture have also been used to rejuvenate the once down-at-heel Soho district.

Daniel Ek has straddled the worlds of music and tech since his childhood in Stockholm's down-at-heel Rågsved district.

Last month, 161 aspiring musicians and executives enrolled on the academy's inaugural course in Bricktown, a once down-at-heel railroad district whose recent transformation into a warren of arty warehouse and loft conversions has drawn comparisons with the facelift Hoxton underwent in the 1990s.

Their research reveals that Brixton shares features in common with other once down-at-heel London districts that have recently been invaded by farmers' markets and designer coffee shops, such as Battersea and Telegraph Hill.

A fortnight ago a 16-year-old named Dean Clarke hanged himself in the down-at-heel Tigers Bay district of north Belfast.

More than just down-at-heel, this main port district of Lima was downright dangerous, notorious as a haunt of gangs smuggling cocaine worldwide.

Today, down-at-heel neighborhoods are transforming into cutting-edge, trendy districts in cities across the world.