Then the locale was shifted to the park strip along Riverside Drive because it was convenient to the West Side homes of most of the men.
But critics have accused the garden of taking the "botanic" out of Brooklyn Botanic Garden, leaving behind a lovely park stripped of scientific depth and rigor.
We faced the street, bisected in that area by a park strip and benches where our neighbor, Mrs. Rabinowitz, sat on hot nights, taking note of when we turned our lights out.
During his Travolta-esque period, he cruised Astoria Park strip in "Sweet Sensation," his blindingly white 1982 Eldorado Cadillac; no black leather jackets could rub against its snowy seats.
Car thieves would drive their cars into the park, strip them and set them on fire.
With parking strips sprouting raised beds, productive gardens replacing lawns, and even a "dating" service called Urban Garden Share that matches up landless gardeners with those willing to share, Seattle has taken Michelle Obama's message of grow your own to heart.
Fifty individual trees at both sites were selected with the objective of growing in rather free ground in parks or green strips of varying sizes and ages, but not in small roadside tree-planting spaces.
24 Studies on utilitarian walking routes only for adults aged 55+ in the Netherlands 25 found that parks and green strips were apparently inhibitors of walking, as were changes in level, litter on the streets and 'blind' or windowless walls facing the streets.
Yet there are plenty of other labels listed in the Dictionary of American Regional English: a median strip, a parking strip, a terrace, a boulevard.
The gravel parking strip was nearly empty; it was four o'clock on a Monday afternoon, with three weeks still to go until Halloween.
