Perched on nearly half an acre, the glass-walled home features sprawling views of the city below.
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Amid the ghostly forms of furniture draped in sheets and accompanied by a barrage of explosions from the city below, she witnesses the breakdown of a family under the strain of infidelity and suspicion.
After 45 minutes or so, I began to find the cumulative effect of all the magnificence rather overwhelming, so it was a relief finally to be able to stroll through the palace gardens to a magical belvedere that commanded a view of the glinting lights of the city below.
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New Yorkers can come here to escape some of the problems of the city streets below.
Parts of Silwan, on the eastern slopes below the Old City, are already precariously propped up on iron stilts, to facilitate the excavation of King David's biblical city, which is said to lie beneath.
After London's successful bid, home values here narrowed the gap to 10% to 20% below the city average.
Most were built over as the city expanded, disappearing below pavement or merging with the new Victorian-era sewage system.
For all the oligarchs and bankers making their home in London, not all the streets are paved with gold: there are areas of the city where life expectancy is below the Welsh average.
One way would be to fill much of the city that's below sea level.
Smoke from the burning sugar cane painted the ancient city of Luxor below with an eerie haziness.
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With the 20-city composite index falling below its April 2009 low, 12 of the cities surveyed for the index marked new index lows in the current housing cycle.
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According to the Manhattan Institute, a research group, test scores in reading and maths have remained much as they were before the two men took over, well below the national and big-city averages.
And it appears that some of his top aides may have profited from the sale of city property for below-market prices.
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All the more reason to move out to the Gol Bungalow veranda, for evening cocktails, with the lights of the city 2, 000 feet below.
The Birmingham City Council study shows that city reoffending rates of 6% are below the government target of 8%.
City environmental bureau readings showed 2.5 microgram pollution levels well above the 200 mark in most parts of the city at midday on Sunday, but these were well below the readings of 700 seen in January.
"There are some real serious pockets of problems, " said Chris Jennings, the president's domestic policy adviser, adding that immunization rates in some inner-city areas are 20 percent below the national average.
Ms. Quinn's plan would, through state legislation, create a new city tax credit for affordable housing developments and require developers who receive the subsidy to renew the below-market rate aspects of their buildings every 30 years, at the city's request.
Mayor Ray Nagin has estimated the death toll could reach 10, 000 in the city, most of which lies below sea level.
For the entire quarter-century that FORBES has been measuring global billionaires, Li has controlled a huge swath of the teeming city of 7 million people below.
It was the hottest day of the year in the city, the sun pounding from above, the concrete radiating heat from below.
Twice this season City fell at or below the 1.0 4-match running average PPM barrier, something they never did last year.
To the east of Bethlehem, chalky hills sink below sea level towards the Dead Sea and the ancient city of Jericho, immortalized in the Bible for its walls that tumbled under the blasts of trumpets (Joshua 6:20).
They grunt their way through the city, carrying locals and a new wave of international travellers from the cerros to the port below.
But engineers say the levees preventing this below-sea-level city from being turned into a swamp were built to withstand only Category 3 hurricanes.
Firefighters were called Saturday to the residential building in the Pujiang area of the eastern Zhejiang province city of Jinhua to rescue a baby trapped in the L-joint of a sewage pipe just below a squat toilet in one of the building's public restrooms.
The city pointed to data that showed that nearly every yellow-taxi trip starts at the airports or in Manhattan below 96th Street.
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