But a select number of its side streets and adjoining suburbs are vibrant hubs for food, fashion and art.
Idle away the afternoon by exploring the narrow sois (side streets) of Rattanakosin, the old city, or Yaowarat, Bangkok's Chinatown.
Others packed around the edges of the square and surrounding side streets, hoping to catch a final glimpse of the pontiff.
Wandering the tangle of narrow side streets that stretch from Tunel to Taksim, every corner I turn reveals the same scene: people, eating, outside.
After rebuffing repeated charges, police brought in tear gas and water cannon and used them to push the demonstrators into side streets.
Business travelers will also discover that cycling around side streets for an hour or so can be a relaxing interlude in an otherwise busy trip.
Mr. Doherty said private contractors were brought in for the first time to plow the tertiary roads side streets from the outset of the storm.
Police barricades on Tuesday stopped pedestrians and cars from using 57th Street between Fifth and Eighth avenues as well as numerous side streets.
In Missouri, the combination of high water and fallen power lines closed dozen of roads, snarling traffic on highways and side streets in the St.
WSJ: Tornado-Hit Oklahoma Struck Again; Mother and Baby Dead
People are sledding down city side streets that remain blanketed in white as official state and local transportation departments work on getting the main roads cleared.
FORBES: Massachusetts, Rhode Island Grounded From Blizzard 'Nemo'
Many of the capital's existing hotels are cramped and basic, with windows that look onto ventilator shafts or grubby side streets rather than the capital's tourist glories.
Buses in Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Swansea, Neath, Bridgend, Maesteg and Cardiff are running but are mostly keeping to the main roads and are not venturing on to side streets.
Small privately owned shops have since cropped up along side streets in the Cuban capital, and property, including real estate, can be bought and sold for the first time in decades.
CNN: Pope's Havana visit raises questions of whom he'll meet
Once in Greece, Mr Lamhoud faced the same basic problem that has afflicted all the men pooled into the side streets of Athens - it is almost impossible to claim asylum.
In the event, Cristobal's command of wind speed proves inadequate and the first batch of poems is carried away from the crowd, sending people scurrying through side streets in pursuit of poetry.
"The concrete walls will be taken off from the main roads and side streets in all Baghdad areas, with no exceptions and within 40 days, " a statement from Iraqi military's Baghdad Operations Command read.
After that storm, the city was criticized for its slow response in clearing side streets and at least one death was blamed on the inability of an ambulance to get through an unplowed street.
The council said staff had "worked around the clock" since Friday's snow to keep the roads clear, but it took the decision because the icy conditions are forecast to remain, and the state of some side streets and pavements.
The side streets that fan out from it are home to a number of cultural and environmental agencies, including the Royal Film Commission and Wild Jordan -- and in this blossoming street network you get a sense of a new creative national identity sprouting up.
C. and his friends never approached the Taj but hung out instead at the south end of the Strip, where there were cheap motels, fast-food restaurants, pawnshops, bail-bond shops, and storefront churches, with sprawling parking lots, not parking garages, so they could cruise the lots and side streets after dark and break into parked vehicles if no one was watching.
From here, retrace your steps back down the steep side-streets to the hustle and bustle of downtown, also known as Jabal Amman.
That will allow the protestants who live in a handful of streets on either side of one stretch of the Ardoyne Road alongside a much larger Catholic community to argue that they are suspending their protest because their concerns about their own safety are being addressed.
And not long after, Jeanne would be marching side-by-side with her son through the streets of New York.
The building is to be the first of five planned in Riverside Center, which is the southernmost and final piece of the larger Riverside South apartment development that runs above a former set of Penn Central rail yards by the West Side Highway between 59th and 72nd streets.
Commercial aircraft had been grounded, armed vehicles patrolled the streets of Washington, a side of the Pentagon had been reduced to rubble, the twin towers were gone and the New York Stock Exchange was closed.
When I hear the cynical talk that blacks and whites and Latinos can't join together and work together, I'm reminded of the Latino brothers and sisters I organized with and stood with and fought with side by side for jobs and justice on the streets of Chicago.
For edgier fashions and urban style, begin your Lower East Side explorations on Orchard between Houston and Grand Streets.
应用推荐