At the time of the shooting, the sidewalk appeared largely empty of pedestrians.
To a visitor, the long, straight streets of the town centre seem eerily empty of pedestrians.
Their many idiosyncratic cast-iron shapes act as both lyrical grace notes and formal anchors for his daytime street scenes, as empty of pedestrians as a De Chirico piazza.
Picture: Franck Fife AFP/ Getty Images 10.25am BST The Olympics have apparently turned London into a ghost town; Westminster Bridge appears almost empty of pedestrians and vehicles during morning rush hour.
"Stores are closed and the streets are completely empty of pedestrians, only protesters are around in the areas they are confronting (security forces)," resident Wajdi Abdullah said.
On a weeknight after 8, White Plains is virtually empty, its audible pedestrian signals -- designed for the blind -- chiming eerily in the silence.
There are many pleasant places in Washington to go for a walk, but the city is difficult to get around on foot: the wide avenues are hard to cross, the traffic circles are like obstacle courses, and the grandiloquent empty spaces thwart pedestrians, by acting as what Jane Jacobs calls "border vacuums".
While he was here, roads were closed, cars were towed and central Jerusalem, near the King David Hotel, where he stayed, was nearly empty; the few pedestrians visible wore uniforms and carried guns.
The mosque was on a busy square, and a pedestrian overpass emptied into the plaza, mixing passersby with the voting crowd.
City residents have long complained that the abundance of graffiti-strewn, garbage-filled, broken and empty boxes interferes with pedestrians and safe disembarkation from buses.
