plural skid rows
: a disadvantaged area of a city or town regarded as a place where unhoused people or people with substance abuse issues often go
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The zone is composed of the city quadrant where the 110, I-10 and I-5 overlap to include the fashion and arts districts, skid row and Chinatown.
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Anna Commander
hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 June 2025
Image According to court documents, Mr. Blaisdell went to Maui’s skid row on Aug. 11, 1994, with a man named Michael Freitas and $800 in cash to buy marijuana.
—Alexandra E. Petri, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
Levin and McHugh’s largest project was the 2,346-unit Presidential Towers complex: four 49-story towers built in a onetime skid row area in the West Loop that had been cleared in 1968.
—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2025
The council also opened the door to residential development in a portion of skid row bounded by 5th Street on the north, 7th Street on the south, San Pedro Street on the west and Central Avenue on the east.
—David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
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Anna Commander
hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 June 2025
Image According to court documents, Mr. Blaisdell went to Maui’s skid row on Aug. 11, 1994, with a man named Michael Freitas and $800 in cash to buy marijuana.
—Alexandra E. Petri, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
Levin and McHugh’s largest project was the 2,346-unit Presidential Towers complex: four 49-story towers built in a onetime skid row area in the West Loop that had been cleared in 1968.
—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2025
The council also opened the door to residential development in a portion of skid row bounded by 5th Street on the north, 7th Street on the south, San Pedro Street on the west and Central Avenue on the east.
—David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
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skid row
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: a district of cheap saloons and cheap rooming houses in which vagrants and alcoholics live
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