Streets are converted into outdoor eateries.
The old Bell Laboratories at Bethune and West Streets was converted into 383 apartments and dozens of commercial spaces.
The doorless, green-and-yellow three-wheelers that clog Delhi's streets were converted to compressed natural gas years ago, so they create little pollution.
The Forum des Halles, a partly subterranean multistoried commercial and shopping centre, was opened in 1979, and the nearby streets were converted to a traffic-free zone for pedestrians.
Police seizures suggest that more than half the guns on the streets are converted (and dangerous) replicas, a fact to which many younger gangsters seem oblivious.Control of the lucrative drug trade once made the danger seem worthwhile.
Since November 2009, the one-way streets were converted back to two-way functionality.
In a single stroke, crime in the historic center was nearly eliminated when the streets were converted to pedestrian-only traffic at night.
The text data attached to the photos, such as cross streets, is converted into latitudes and longitudes, so that photos automatically land in the right intersection on the map.
In the case of The Dings, a 'retro-fit' model was applied, where pre-existing, residential streets were converted and new features added.
Gennaro De Mattia runs a coffee stall in the churchyard of Hawksmoor's St George's church, opposite a building on New Oxford Street being converted into offices.
With the lower part of 1500 Broadway, across Times Square at the northeast corner of 43d Street, being converted to broadcast ABC's "Good Morning America" show, the two studios could easily end up in each other's backdrop.
