Its residents complained for years about a notorious open-air drug market to no great effect.
Despite sporadic crackdowns, the strip persisted for decades as "home to the biggest, most notorious open-air drug market on Long Island," said the Nassau County district attorney, Kathleen M. Rice.
She did, however, join with 17 prominent Abstract Expressionists and other avant-gardists in signing a notorious open letter to the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1950 accusing it of hostility to "advanced art".
But the detectives had made the mistake of pinning on him the city's most notorious open murder case, which brought about a higher level of scrutiny than the average homicide.
France's interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, pledged last week to dismantle the Calais camp, Europe's biggest and most notorious open-air squat, which is now home to between 7,000 and 10,000 migrants and refugees.
What he's actually getting in Philadelphia's notorious open-air drug market is heroin laced with an even more potent additive, often in unpredictable amounts that even antidotes can't stop from being deadly.
The police say they have broken up a drug ring that controlled five of the city's most notorious open-air drug markets and netted nearly $600,000 a month selling heroin and cocaine.
But this season, they seem to have taken their notorious open-door policy to a new extreme: there is no longer any door to speak of, only a vast thoroughfare, with free, guaranteed passage to anyone who happens to be in the vicinity.
Since they're coming out in Japan, the Walkman E-Series DAPs carry the notorious open price.
Living in Dadaab Refugee Camp―-one of the world's largest and most notorious open air camps―-Mustafa used his experiences to fuel his fierce commitment to his studies and to improve his life circumstances and those of his family.
