In Kadikoy, a teeming district on Istanbul's Asian shore, just 20 steps separate ferry stations from the entrance of a 16-stop metro line that stretches to the city southern limits.
Eight American soldiers and about two dozen Iraqis died in the firefight that erupted Sunday in the streets of the teeming district known as Sadr City, which lies on Baghdad's northeastern rim and is home to more than two million Shiites.
Soldiers opened fire on angry West Point residents last week when the quarantine was imposed, following an attack days before on a holding center for Ebola victims in the teeming district.
Typically these hubs have teeming cultural districts like the blend of galleries, music clubs and other small venues long found in Greenwich Village; mixed-use, live-work-play areas like those in the former warehouse districts of SoHo and Tribeca; ethnic neighborhoods like Chinatown; and artists' havens like Williamsburg, Chelsea, Dumbo and Red Hook near Lower Manhattan.
Uche's car was less than 10 metres from a car packed with explosives which detonated in a teeming business district in the central Nigerian city of Jos on Tuesday afternoon.
After the incident, I heard from a U.S. friend now serving in the joint security station in Sadr City, the teeming Shiite district of Baghdad from which al-Zaidi hailed.
That explains how many of the top companies, like Quiksilver, Billabong U.S.A. and Ocean Pacific Apparel, chose to place their corporate headquarters and design offices in this beach-rich area, about an hour south of the teeming garment district of Los Angeles.
One might think that a storefront, window-paned restaurant on the busy corner of Cumberland and Bellair in Toronto's teeming Yorkville district might be the last place a celebrity seeking a secluded dinner would deign to dine.
The bomb exploded by the Erawan shrine, a popular religious site located in the heart of Bangkok's teeming shopping district.
Mr. Kapoor and Mr. Singh grew up together in Calcutta, and their favorite restaurants were in the teeming old tannery district called Tangra.
A proliferation of national chain stores outside town has already forced the closing of about half of the city's once teeming central shopping district.
