Sentence examples for great streets from inspiring English sources

Last year, the American Planning Association named 125th Street one of the "10 Great Streets in America," calling it the "Main Street of black American culture".

"Let's go to the next level," said Ethan Kent, vice president of the Project for Public Spaces, a nonprofit group based in Manhattan, "to create great streets that really draw out the life of the communities they're meant to serve".

"Shall we go to the Hotel Biltmore, on Vanderbilt Avenue, which is merely a feeder lane for the great streets, or shall we go to Schrafft's, where my old friend Botticelli is captain of girls and where they have the mayonnaise in fiascos?

The federal building would mar what the American Planning Association calls one of the nation's "great streets," except that it is hidden by a red brick antebellum structure that faces the street — an architectural sleight of hand that says much about the reasons that the Homeland Security officers were on Broad Street that day.

Bold words for the man who called Wilshire Boulevard "one of the few great streets in the world where driving is a pleasure" – after having, "like earlier generations of English intellectuals who taught themselves Italian in order to read Dante in the original", learned to drive "in order to read Los Angeles in the original".

Backers of the Great Streets program hope to achieve similar success.

Like how the building has great street access.

"It would become a great street once again.

They slowly walk away from the great street fair.

Like all great street photographers, he interpreted as he observed.

It is the proving ground of great street reporting, a showcase of fine writing.