Yet from a plane window the town still has a marooned, precarious look, like a lone atoll at sea.
The heroine of "Maia in Yonkers" flees Tbilisi (where her husband was shot by Russian gangsters), establishes a precarious footing looking after an old lady in Yonkers, but at the long-awaited visit of her son, finds herself painfully estranged from the boy.
It was like a balancing act, something she had refined over the years, and no matter how precarious it looked I knew she would not fall.
There is only room for a very, very few millionaires in this game, and even those wealth dropouts have precarious wealth — look at Facebook stock and how poorly it has done.
You realize early on that these insects are not to be trifled with when one of them does a lengthy one-armed handstand atop a precarious-looking pole.
After that he joined and led various rebel groups and underground militia across Cuba, living a precarious life, always "looking for trouble".
The most recent installation, State Of Denmark, tackles one of the artist's sore spots, royalty: his precarious crowned structure looking anything but permanent.
The City, a big contributor to revenues as well as GDP growth, is expected to take quite a knock.Even with the planned slowdown in spending, the public finances are looking precarious.
Jonathan Wright With the Twin Peaks sequel looking precarious, here's a timely, star-stuffed stopgap: a mysterious new drama shepherded to the small screen by fallen movie idol M Night Shyamalan.
Qualification for the quarter-finals of the Friends Provident t20 is also far from certain, with Yorkshire's position in the top four looking precarious after a 34-run defeat.
Indeed, some insiders are now saying that European leaders will not be able to resolve their differences in March.Fears of an adverse reaction in the markets Portugal's position is looking precarious, with bond yields exceeding the unsustainable level of 7% over the past month should focus minds enough to produce an agreement.
