Beyond them, substantial houses sit back from the thoroughfares.
Like one of the abandoned houses or secluded dells of his fiction, they became places rarely visited, lying far from the thoroughfares of mainstream popularity.
Far from the thoroughfares of Midtown Manhattan, the desire to eat quickly and well is satisfied by street-food vendors who make do without the trappings of their more publicity-savvy peers, yet who still win loyal customers.
But Mr. Sgarbi has already found a candidate to "rework" Mr. Meier's design -- Antonio Tamburrino, an urban planner who wants to recover the Port of Ripetta, once situated near the Tiber south of where the Ara Pacis now stands, even though recovering the port would mean removing traffic from the thoroughfares that line the Tiber.
But one of those from the "thoroughfares" comes to the celebration without a wedding garment.
People from the thoroughfares and streets, the good and the bad, are invited; they must, however, accept the king's invitation.
Construction on the 270-room Mondrian Hotel (scheduled to open early this year) — which will rise above downtown Manhattan from 150 Lafayette Street, the thoroughfare that runs parallel, to the east — may be a harbinger of change.
The Fourth Estate, as Edmund Burke dubbed the press in 1787, is now long gone from Fleet Street, leaving the thoroughfare void of journalists.
Pete and I made a five-and-a-half-mile round-trip trek across the thoroughfare, from the artistically renovated Broadway-Lafayette subway station along the south side, east to the East River, and then back along the north side and west to the Hudson.
The Whatever Saloon is an airy café-cum-creative hang-out that opened last year, minutes from the main thoroughfare in Tunis.
