These can be illuminated with globe lights, $15 for a 10-bulb, 10-foot strand.
Larger bookstores, Internet vendors and e-book sales have contributed to the decrease, though the 55,000-square-foot Strand remains popular with book lovers and tourists.
View the late-afternoon Manhattan skyline from Water Taxi Beach, 2 Borden Avenue, (212) 742-1969, a 44,000-square-foot strand made of sand imported from New Jersey.
The store, which also has seasonal items like glittered deer figurines (from $25) and felt ball garlands ($40 for a six-foot strand), is as elegant as her arrangements.
In December 1999, Patricia Sutherland, an archaeologist, announced that she had found a 10-foot strand of ancient yarn in a collection of Dorset artifacts from Northern Baffin Island that were lying uncataloged here at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, where she is a curator.
The worms grow to resemble translucent three-foot strands of spaghetti and finally emerge by exuding acid that bursts the skin; the pain can be crippling for months.
Fifty-foot strands of twinkling white lights hung from the tallest limbs of the craggy sycamores.
Flooding near a bridge reached a depth of 4 feet, stranding some residents in their homes.
Luminescent Light String These 25 luminescent globe lights on a 26-foot-long strand are like a string of twinkling stars in the night.
In another demo, a flat sheet dipped in water folds into a cube, and a 50-foot-long strand that's dunked in the Z Center swimming pool folds 75 times along its length in an hour.
White-footed mice, stranded on isolated urban islands, are evolving to adapt to urban stress.
