Yet time and again, the NYPD seemed to turn angry and swarm into peaceful protesters, arbitrarily enforcing a street-sidewalk marching ban, and using force when none was 1. necessary or 2. ethical.

FORBES: Occupy Wall Street's Year: Three Outcomes for the History Books

Turn left at Sadat Street and follow the narrow sidewalk to Sadat Tower, a charmless early-1970s apartment-turned-office-building.

FORBES: Rebuilding a market

They want a bike station in Petrosino Square, a small park, to be shifted to a sidewalk across the street.

WSJ: NYC launches bike share program, largest in nation

Thirty-six-year-old Nneka Green-Ingram, a former sailor who has a coveted general vendor license, got sick of setting up shop along a sidewalk on 125th Street in Harlem where she operated for about four years.

WSJ: Style Keeps On Trucking

Note: since this posting American Street Malls has been reincorporated as Sidewalk Max, Inc.

FORBES: Stoop Sales Attract Big-Time Attention: Even The Taxman Is Interested In Your Junk

The bum was moving at a tangent now, off the sidewalk, into the street.

NEWYORKER: Fiction

Police said the explosives were planted in a device on the sidewalk or in the street, not in a car as initially thought.

CNN: Powerful bomb explodes in Medellin

Jerry walked confidently into the lot between the buildings to get a better look at the tracks, just twenty feet from the street, but Con remained on the sidewalk.

NEWYORKER: Brooklyn Circle

Some were on the street, most like me cautiously stayed on the sidewalk.

CNN: My arrest at Occupy Wall Street

One bus trying to negotiate a left turn on a snow-covered street fishtailed, swiping down a light pole on a sidewalk.

CNN: Fierce storm leaves 20 states shoveling and shivering

Starting 9 September, makeshift sidewalk studios crafting beautiful clay idols will spring up along nearly every city street.

BBC: Mumbai��s elephantine festival