In the past couple of years, the Sperone Westwater Gallery at 257 Bowery, designed by Norman Foster, and the New Museum at 235 Bowery, by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, have brought a more modern aesthetic to the old thoroughfare.
The west end of Narrow Wine Street, a 'fantastic little old thoroughfare', was more or less intact; Castle Mill Street and Castle Green received little damage, and Upper, Middle and Lower Terrace survived.
The Bowery, she said, is the city's oldest thoroughfare, with buildings from every decade since the American Revolution.
One of the oldest thoroughfares in London, it was once the route to Kingsland, a village located where Dalston Junction is now.
BEFORE the Bowery bums and urban blight, before the restaurant-equipment dealers flooded the sidewalks, before lighting stores illuminated storefront windows and before the area became known as a haven for punk rock, one of New York's oldest thoroughfares fell into the cross hairs of real estate speculators.
As part of the original incorporated city of Chicago in 1837, Rush Street is one of the city's oldest thoroughfares.
In town, Water Street is the old main thoroughfare that runs along the waterfront and above the Digby wharf.
Two, perhaps three families live there behind the shuttered clutter of the old main thoroughfare, a three-block stretch of old Route 66 that boasted the first and last motel in Texas and a service station that dispensed gasoline and whiskey.
IF there is hallowed ground in well-to-do Manhasset, it is along an old-time downtown thoroughfare called Plandome Road where veterans and other local heroes march on Memorial Day.
These are burning questions for the people of Tentmakers Street, a cramped and dim thoroughfare in the old heart of this old city where a government preservation project is tearing up the foundations of the buildings and, for many, a way of life.
In those days, there were no route numbers or state roads; in Wisconsin, there were merely old cart and carriage thoroughfares, whose primary purpose was the conveyance of food from farm to market.
