The broad, open boulevard of St. Nicholas Avenue was a splendid route for carriage excursions, and after the Civil War, its country estates began to give way to more urban development.
Although New York Hospital and the Hospital for Special Surgery have completely covered over their frontage above 68th Street -- what had been a sunny, open boulevard of city views -- Rockefeller University's portion is still generally open.
The plans involve an open boulevard, making a feature of the medieval walls which are currently "hidden" among the side of buildings, he added.
The floats were designed for the wide open boulevards of Mid-City, said Scott S. Wexler, the parade's chief of technology, and were hard to maneuver in the tighter quarters of the Uptown parade route.
As the pair cover the city, looping over interchanges and down wide open boulevards, they travel a landscape alive with wild animals and wilder men, noisy with unfamiliar music and chatter, and punctured by the hard pop of occasional gunfire.
From wide avenues and open boulevards shaded by neem, tamarind and arjuna, low red-brick walls give on to sprawling white classical bungalows with bow fronts, porticoes and dim colonnades of tall Ionic pillars, all surrounded by long lawns, jungly shrubberies and bushes of molten yellow gulmohar.
Inline skaters quickly flocked to the wide-open boulevard, and soon established a pickup game named after its most famous fixture: White House roller hockey.
The elimination of the numerous alleys and dead-ends in the lower town in favour of a large, straight, wide, open-air boulevard, linking the two rapidly growing train stations, seemed both a necessity and an opportunity to beautify the city and improve both traffic circulation and hygiene.
On this song and "Nuthin but a "G" Thang", Time magazine noted that Dr. Dre's verses were delivered with a "hypnotically intimidating ease" and made the songs feel like "dusk on a wide-open L.A. boulevard, full of possibility and menace".
These races are run not on wide-open Parisian boulevards or sunflower-lined country roads, but steep dirt trails on forested mountains that make it difficult for spectators or cameras to catch the action.
His proposed Americana at Brand project in this city of 207,000 -- so named because it will open onto Brand Boulevard -- would resemble the Grove, a 575,000-square-foot retail and entertainment center he opened in 2002 on Third Street and Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles.
