At another of the more refined places, they've hung a huge, garish banner out front with a list of silly theme nights, but it waves over a vacant street.
With the lot under the viaduct mostly unavailable, more of his customers now creep along Bryant Avenue hoping for a vacant street space, or leave their cars standing with flashers on while they run in for morning coffee.
And oh, the traffic: BMW's, Escalades, the odd Lamborghini, all jostling for approximately one vacant street-parking space.
Particularly in London, when everyone is competing for your hard-earned capital to invest in their new location?" In some cases, place-making has meant going to extraordinary lengths: in poor parts of Harlem, estate agents bought up vacant street-front commercial properties and opened four trendy coffee shops, in an unabashed attempt to instigate gentrification themselves.
As I stepped out onto the vacant streets of Murska Sobota, a wave of euphoria surged through me.
Instead, they're scrubs-clad Casualty actors, lunch-breaking and lounging in the mid-June sun, overlooked by the cheerily vacant streets of long-running Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm.
Despite an Israeli curfew on Wednesday, dozens of boys, teenagers and young men loitered along the otherwise vacant streets here holding stones and bits of metal and eyeing any approaching vehicle.
Ray Bradbury took it up in the early 1950's in his short story "The Pedestrian," about a perfectly innocent man who enjoys walking the vacant streets after dark, and is dragged off to a mental institution.
In the last few months, young people usually seen cruising the thrift shops of the Lower East Side and Williamsburg, Brooklyn, have been spending more time frolicking on the nearly vacant streets of the financial district after dark.
After a traditional dinner of goulash and beer, Vesko and I walked along the vacant streets of the city, exploring.
In the late 70s its gridded streets were mapped out into two neatly set zones – a residential one, then, a mile away, preformed industria: vacant streets, plumbed and electrified, just waiting for factories to be dropped on them.
