There was a shelf nearby, set above shoulder level.
That may have been like saying that VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE invented the Internet, and Ms. Stewart, who was standing nearby, set the record straight.
"And you can watch TV whenever you want when you're at home," he said as the Mets game blared from a nearby set.
In revitalizing this old-fashioned diner practically underneath the Williamsburg Bridge, Andrew Tarlow and Mark Firth, former bartenders at Odeon and Balthazar who live nearby, set the tone for the two renovated Williamsburg diners that were to follow.
Ten years ago, after a frail friend told him that he needed an intravenous feeding to get through the day, Mr. Fleischer, with the help of Maimonides Medical Center nearby, set up virtual clinics at the Bobov synagogue, five other locations and people's homes.
Many who don't live nearby set up residence for the weekend at various non-stop house parties, which sprout all over the neighborhood throughout the festival, featuring live music at all hours of the night.
It was a makeshift ribbon-cutting ceremony: Nearby, set up like a spread at a high school party from the 80s, was a table of Russian-inspired snacks (mainly puff pastries that incorporated cold eggs and smelly fish), and outside, red balloons swayed in the wind, illuminated by a string of candles placed on the sidewalk.
In a nearby set of enlarged storm scenes Hiller has drawn a Turneresque sun, in a jokey homage to romantic painting.
In January Tam's parking lot made headlines when the music mogul Suge Knight ran over two men, killing one of them, after a fight on a nearby set where a commercial for Straight Outta Compton was being filmed.
Neither he nor Gearhart, who turned 12 in May, seemed the tiniest bit bothered by the presence on a nearby set of a perfect facsimile of the boy's headless body, artfully arranged against a blood-spattered living-room wall.
