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Recent Examples of alamedaOr are Allende’s grandes alamedas still beckoning all these years later?—Ariel Dorfman, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023 But what has resonated most, the words that adorn hundreds of monuments erected in plazas, streets, and playgrounds across the world, is his prophecy that someday the grandes alamedas, the great avenues lined with trees, would open for the free people of tomorrow to walk through.—Ariel Dorfman, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
Madison Ruiz, 21, was sitting alongside a curb at the parking lot of the arcade on July 13 around 12:30 a.m. near Erskine St. and Gateway Drive in East New York when Zachary Cando, 24, driving a 2023 Genesis G80, veered and struck Ruiz.
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Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
15 July 2025
On the opposite side of the arcade is the sports bar with a massive screen that towers over diners.
According to a report by French daily Le Monde, translated in the New York Times, Louvre director Laurence des Cars has called for the new entrance to merge with the surrounding architecture, that being the seventeenth-century colonnade of the museum’s eastern façade, near the Seine River.
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News Desk,
Artforum,
1 July 2025
The living quarters center around a cloister courtyard that is lined with dramatic arched colonnades and adorned with a stone wishing well.
Last month, the village had to agree to a new mall, about 450 new housing units, a 5-story fitness center, and a hotel with 120 rooms.
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Denise Hruby
Updated July 13,
Miami Herald,
13 July 2025
Colerain Township officials provided no further details. Xscape, which opened at the mall in 2013, shut down a decade later in the wake of a series of store closures that contributed to the mall's decline.
The incident prompted comments on social media from people who said there were on the cruise, reporting the child first went overboard from Deck 4, where there is a walkaround promenade with a railing covered in plastic that blocks children from being able to climb.
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Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 June 2025
Spend an afternoon shopping along the resort town’s ritzy, car-free promenade.
The Depot, located on Santa Fe Avenue between Union Avenue and W. 11th Street, is a park, a 2/3 of an acre plaza designed to be a central public gathering space, with benches and public art.
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Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
8 July 2025
Long before the renovation, the plaza was the launch pad for Chris Bianco’s career.
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