Sentence examples for parkways of from inspiring English sources

"Ghosts walk the streets of Manhattan or the parkways of its suburbs with the same regularity as they do in lonely Midwestern farmhouses or English manors," he writes.

In another example, the parkways of the New York area were built to give city residents a way to reach outlying beaches and state parks.

Designed in the 1800s by Frederick Law Olmsted, Riverside has several unique design elements (curvilinear streets, ample setbacks, parkways of variable width with mowed grass and naturalistic groupings of trees) that define the structure and composition of this landscape.

The measure is part of a plan Acting Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco announced to eventually rid the parkway of all tolls in 10 years.

The idea is to build parks along the river tied together with bike paths creating a parkway of green through the city.

So taking the first step toward ridding the parkway of its irritating toll plazas seemed like the perfect legacy for a short-timer.

A.: The Hutchinson River is generally known only as the fleeting, forlorn companion to the much longer parkway of the same name, which connects the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge to the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut.

State road officials say they need toll revenue for maintenance and to pay off debt, although New Jersey's governor, Christine Todd Whitman, said she would consider any legislative proposal to rid the parkway of tolls.

Mid-afternoon on Wednesday, driving along a street in the West San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, I saw this man lying on the parkway of the road.

County leaders built the park along with a lattice of parkways to draw potential homebuyers to Westchester.

On the wooded parkways east of Monticello, only the sharpest setting, Sport+, summoned the kind of instantaneous thrust expected from a naturally aspirated V8.