Sentence examples for old midtown from inspiring English sources

MiMA, an abbreviation for middle of Manhattan, is an attempt to rechristen a neighborhood long known as plain old Midtown West or, more ominously, Hell's Kitchen.

Last year, I decided to go see someone cheaper, a "tax preparer" who had an office in an old Midtown building and a frosted-glass door with his name on it.

Overjoyed to be back, my husband and I reinstalled ourselves in our old Midtown West neighborhood.

Standing on the corner by A La Vieille Russie I found myself overpowered with the familiar old Midtown stench: carriage horses, bus exhaust, perfume, and urine.

But by mid-March, their usually glorious pale yellow coats looked as worn, splotchy and trampled as a patch of day-old Midtown snow.

Suzanne Hart, a 41-year-old executive at one of Manhattan's most prominent advertising firms, was stepping into the elevator of an 85-year-old Midtown office building around 10 a.m.

With all of those carts rolling around the room, it's probably only a matter of time before Maloney & Porcelli, a 16-year-old Midtown chophouse, needs someone with a whistle to manage the gridlock.

An immigrant from Korea, Mr. Nam, 43, said he was confident about Lower Manhattan's future as he sat at a table in the family's five-year-old midtown spot, Variety Cafe, at 20 West 48th Street.

Alan and Michael Stillman — the father-and-son team that runs Maloney & Porcelli and other spots in their Fourth Wall Restaurants group — are savvy enough to realize this, which is why they are putting the 16-year-old Midtown joint through a head-to-tail renovation (while leaving that shank alone).

Younger people who work in the dot-com and Internet businesses moving into the area "also like the older Midtown neighborhoods," she said.

Its old Midtown Manhattan office was a traditional space with offices housing one, two or four people each.