Sentence examples for worst block from inspiring English sources

"Now it's the worst block in Harlem," said Talmon Ford, 44, a nurse who grew up on West 148th Street.

candidate, Lefkowitz publicized conditions on 84th St. Mayor Wagner tore down some tenements & made a play street of the worst block.

Most of the creations — nine by Mr. Martins — were ghastly; the company, as Arlene Croce observed the next year in The New Yorker, received the worst block of reviews in its history.

Insite, situated on the worst block of an area once home to the fastest-growing AIDS epidemic in North America, is one reason Vancouver is succeeding in lowering new AIDS infection rates while many other cities are only getting worse.

But they were surprisingly eager to put some distance between themselves and the street, which suggests that even on the worst block, things are not always what they seem.

Fifty years ago, 84th Street, between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues, beat out some pretty stiff competition to be designated the "worst block" in New York City — a "ghetto of sociopaths," in the words of the rector of a nearby Episcopal church who despaired that city officials would ever do anything to clean up the mess.

"This block was one of the worst blocks and one of the last to change," said Daphne Mahoney, the owner of Daphne's Caribbean Express, known for its Jamaican meat patties.

That same offensive line gave up eight sacks on Sunday, prompting the New York Post to ask whether this was the worst blocking performance in the 89-year history of the team.

Literally, 15 months and not one reported crime in what used to be the worst blocks in town.

The 21-year-old mechanic lives on one of the 10 worst blocks in Koreatown for receiving street-sweeping tickets, according to a recent Times analysis.

When the District of Columbia won the right to elect its mayor, the story in the paper included interviews with addicts and winos on one of the city's worst blocks expressing indifference.