Sentence examples for prominent streets from inspiring English sources

In a surprising reshaping of the urban landscape, the city is creating a public esplanade along a portion of one of its most prominent streets, Broadway in Midtown, setting aside the east side of the roadway for a bicycle lane and a pedestrian walkway with cafe tables, chairs, umbrellas and flower-filled planters.

For a few days after the attack, the areas around the palace were cordoned off and tanks were stationed at prominent streets in the capital.

Under South Vietnamese rule, Duyệt was considered a great national hero and his image appeared on banknotes, while prominent streets were named after him.

Unlike the other prominent streets, Riverside drive is outside the flood-wall that surrounds most of the city and was built two feet higher than the height the Ohio River flood of 1937.

"In our experience we found out that more then 80 percent of our visitors never heard of Banksy, Shepard [Fairey] or Os Gemeos," he said, referencing three prominent street artists.

One of the first gay bars to open was Linga, an airy cocktail lounge with artwork on the walls and large windows that face the Passage, a bustling and prominent street.

BEIJING — Three people apparently using an incendiary device set themselves and their car on fire on Wednesday as police officers approached them at a prominent street crossing in central Beijing.

The latest buzz-generating addition to Wynwood is the eye-catching display of murals by prominent street artists that Mr. Goldman and the gallery owner Jeffrey Deitch commissioned in time for Art Basel, the annual art fair in Miami Beach that was held in December.

And in spite of the movement's underground nature, the work of today's most prominent street artists is increasingly sought by galleries and collectors around the world, though the pieces are not yet fetching the sums attached to the art of New York's graffiti pioneers.

They appeared on prominent street corners, including La Cienega and Jefferson boulevards, and Venice Boulevard at Motor Avenue.

But some of the unsanctioned street art might be coming from prominent street artists in town for the exhibit, or from the exhibit's artists themselves.