Sentence examples for seedy district from inspiring English sources

A POLICEMAN taunts a young voter leaving a polling station in Bab El Oued, a seedy district of Algiers.

The popular area of Marseille was the seedy district, north of the Old Port, known as the Panier, which was destroyed in 1943.

The authority hoped to capitalize on the revival of Times Square, a once seedy district suddenly awash in new theaters, office towers and retailers.

But all that changed after Disney agreed to take over the New Amsterdam, a development that subsequently attracted a host of other companies to invest in what had been a seedy district.

I had to figure out very quickly: Who is my enemy, who is my friend?" Like his detective, Mr. Arjouni gravitated to the seedy district around Frankfurt's railway station, an area dotted, in the 1980s, with sex clubs, brothels, cheap hotels and fast-food restaurants.

These were the years when Cavafy maintained a double life, letting his mother wear herself out over dinner, then sneaking off, aided by her servant, into the seedy districts of Alexandria to cruise for young men.

Hamburg's moneyed set may subsidize a lavish array of Michelin-starred restaurants and sumptuous hotels, but it is the gritty, somewhat seedy districts of St. Pauli and the Reeperbahn that still show visitors a rollicking good time.

But my dash across Europe necessitated a bed near St. Pancras International train station, so I opted for a "clean simple room with a chrome silver double bed" in the once-seedy district of Kings Cross for £50, owned by a 39-year-old vintage-clothing buyer.

The rules are unnecessarily complicated, and Bangkok's exempt zones encompass its seediest districts, including infamous Patpong, undermining their prudish rationale.There is hope, however, for South-East Asia's revellers.

The truth: It's the music that might come out of the radio if Ariel Pink was a female cabbie driving round LA's seedier districts at night, in 1965 or 1972 (or both, at once).

Although it is in the Tenderloin, one of the city's seediest districts, it offers a great view of the South of Market area, a breeding-ground for startups.The bird's eye view may be similar, but the landscape beneath is shifting.