Independence Plaza North An Owner Proposes Vouchers for Tenants On a larger scale, the anxiety over the situation at Independence Plaza North, a complex of three 39-story towers and 69 two-story low rises stretching from Duane to North Moore Streets in TriBeCa, shows no signs of abating.
A 32-story condominium building is rising just west of it, and to its east, chain hotels and residential high-rises stretch as far as the eye can see.
The area, a generally low-rise stretch of frame houses and industrial buildings, was rezoned in 2005.
It is on a low-rise stretch of Starling Avenue that is home to numerous Bangladeshi-owned businesses.
He instructed members of the news media to rise, stretch and clap their hands 20 times, as a king would implore his subjects.
Before long, I will be able to catalog the cityscape, not just the familiar markers of the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center, but the vast valley that runs between them, that audacious low-rise stretch of concrete where the real life of the city takes place.
But the dog rose, stretched, and paced slowly forward, keeping his distance.
And below, a sea of rose stretched, uninterrupted, from corner to corner.
AS WITH most paths from mountain-top to valley, the road into recession tends to be winding and uneven, with enough flat or even rising stretches to raise the occasional hope that the traveller has reached the bottom.
It took a few minutes of prodding by his sister, who was dancing in the Pepsi commercial, before he rose, stretching out in his denim shirt, jeans and sneakers.
When Nicole* ran to the elevator of a glitzy high-rise stretching over Hong Kong Island with her back bleeding from nail scratches, she decided that, this time, she would never look back.
