The tunnel, just west of Jerome Avenue on 162nd Street, had become a home for fires, abandoned cars and dangerous junk.
The rail tracks cut through a disordered landscape of graffiti-covered walls, glass office buildings, soccer fields, trash fires, abandoned industrial lots, modest houses with red tile roofs, and clusters of twenty-story monoliths — the cités.
About 1450 bce most major settlements in central and southern Crete were destroyed by fire and abandoned.
The Dubai thieves set the two Audis on fire and abandoned them, in the hope of destroying evidence that could link them to the crime.
When he bought the concrete and steel behemoth in 1984 for $1.45 million, it had been trashed, scarred by fire and abandoned.
Across from the scene of the recent fire, an abandoned train station sits boarded up just down from a garage that burned in 2007 and never reopened.
"Saving Africa's Witch Children" follows Gary Foxcroft, founder of the charity Stepping Stones Nigeria, as he travels the rural state of Akwa Ibom, rescuing children abused during horrific "exorcisms" — splashed with acid, buried alive, dipped in fire — or abandoned roadside, cast out of their villages because some itinerant preacher called them possessed.
But wounded again by the harsh reception to "Jude the Obscure" — the Bishop of Wakefield prominently tossed his copy into the fire — Hardy abandoned fiction for his first love, poetry, to express, as he said, "ideas and emotions which run counter to the inert crystallized opinion".
A bright, popular child (top of his year, he turns down a place at the local grammar), Baker recounts his early love for football (Millwall FC), setting fire to abandoned cars, and a failed baked potato heist at the local greengrocers, which he credits with turning him away from a life of crime.
Galland landed under fire and abandoned his jet on the runway.
