Adjacent to the park are not the hoped-for sports bars and restaurants, but gated storefronts, an abandoned music store, a check-cashing store and a beauty supply shop advertising 100percentt synthetic and human hair.
Where Ronald Reagan's star was placed in 1960, a gated, gutted storefront looms from behind.
MS: That behind the gates and storefronts, the Bali life is still going strong, undisturbed by the noise, in its little bubble.*.*
The president left, and military officers shut the metal gates over the storefront.
Neil Goldberg, who lives in the East Village, trained his camera on merchants opening their storefront gates near his home.
The crowd paused to stretch after crossing the bridge, pressing their limbs against parking signs, a shuttered storefront gate and the window of a Brooklyn Industries store.
They pulled up onto sidewalks in tow trucks, slipping the big iron hooks under storefront gates and ripping them clean off.
Next to a kitschy gift shop that sells ninja action figures and wax paper umbrellas, a metal security gate shrouds a storefront.
He said Mr. Bell backed up into a metal storefront gate, and the shooting paused for three or four seconds, resuming as he drove forward and hit the van again.
This time, within 10 minutes of the onset of the blackout, throngs of looters were hacking off padlocks, pulling down storefront gates, crashing through windows and dragging off TV's, couches, washing machines, bicycles, even diapers.
