Sentence examples for plazas like from inspiring English sources

In addition to applying to parks and beaches, the ban approved on Wednesday would extend to pedestrian malls and plazas like those in and around Times Square.

This month the city Department of Transportation began reconfiguring traffic patterns on nearby streets and added pedestrian plazas like those installed last year in Times Square.

Shopping plazas like Ports of Call and Salt Mills, along Grace Bay Road, the main artery, are filled with pricey gift shops, diving stores and art galleries.

Public rights-of-way are being transformed into plazas, like the Castro's Jane Warner Plaza, an erstwhile intersection where residents now sit at tables sipping coffee in the sunshine.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has already banned smoking in restaurants and bars, wants to prohibit it in much of the great outdoors: parks, beaches and even pedestrian malls and plazas like those around Times Square, on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn and Broadway on the Upper West Side.

Earlier this year the Giuliani administration presented one such opportunity when it proposed the boldest change in zoning rules since 1961, with the aim of saving residential neighborhoods from destruction by wanton development of towering skyscrapers and barren plazas like the Trump building under construction near the United Nations.

With 1,500 square feet of selling space one level below the hotel's plaza-like lobby, the shop will offer products like gel-seat chairs designed for the hotel by Mr. Schrager's longtime style master, the globally branded Philippe Starck.

At almost any time of the day or night, hundreds of visitors scramble all over the building's sleek, gently angled Italian marble surface, inching their way up to the plaza-like rooftop.

• One Tuesday afternoon, four days before the opening, several butlers sat at a table in the back of the staff cafeteria, a windowless room in the basement, chatting over the remains of a decidedly un-Plaza-like lunch: roast chicken, pulled pork, and macaroni and cheese.

The shopping mall is the common plaza, like the plaza in Italy.

"Then they end up using it just like a plaza, like a social place.