The time is 1950, and though the dark and depressed city still suffers from wartime austerities Vera brings the light.
Exactly halfway across the Williamsburg Bridge, the city goes dark.
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The sense of relief among the Dark Blue half of the city when Jocky's name was confirmed was palpable.
It comprised a cot bed in a clean, white-washed cell up under the eves and adjacent to a big balcony that looked out onto the street and across the city's dark tempestuous night.
And the people of our city stood in the dark each night, waving flags, and calling out, "God bless you, " as the trucks hurtled by.
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But the real star of the show is the city itself with its dark, zombie-infested alleys and sewers, its whale-oil-powered steampunk technology, and its high brick walls.
After witnessing the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy, which still keeps large swaths of New York City in the dark and without running water, Bloomberg decided that it was time to back President Obama for a second term.
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In fact, shortly after returning to New Orleans, when much of the city was dark, he convinced the utility company to divert electricity to the neighborhood around his church.
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"There are still way too many areas in the city that are dark at night, " the mayor said.
In Thief, our antihero, Garrett, will have to use his wits to navigate the City, a dark steampunk world (what, you thought Dishonored was unique?) with a dash of medieval Europe.
As the fourth man kneels, awaiting his fate, tall dark cypresses, white city walls and the Tuscan hills behind him recede into the distance.
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The initiative included a variety of advertising, marketing and social-media gambits, including a commercial that ran through July4 featuring a superhero-level version of the 300C that was depicted as being assembled in the dark environs of some industrial district of a brooding Gotham City, the fictional setting for the Batman film series.
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On May 20, investigators who had been casing the area noticed a light upstairs in the otherwise dark warehouse in Long Island City.
He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.
In scenes where we stare out at what I presume to be the back side of Anor Londo (a portion of the city we see but never visit in Dark Souls) the sky is the same color as the perpetual sunset over Anor Londo in the first game.
The Gotham of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight is actually Chicago, and for the residents of the Windy City, having their city chosen to depict urban dystopia is just another thing to be proud of.
His sentence brings to closure a dark time in the history of the city of Wilkes-Barre, PA, which is in Luzerne County.
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In late August, I stood in the center of Mexico City, surrounded by glimmering office towers, looking up at the dark outline of the HSBC Mexico building.
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Down a narrow alley not far from the sparkling city centrepiece of Federation Square is dark, pokey Rutledge Lane, where a wild riot of colour spills over every surface and stretches storeys high.
The hotel itself is vast, dark and superbly atmospheric thanks to its Spanish-Gothic architecture which defined the city in the 1920s.
Since then, Fox's soundstages have hosted a cattle call of largely U.S.-funded productions, from Dark City to Babe: Pig in the City, The Matrix, M:I-2 and Red Planet.
It, obviously, points to one of the most dark and shameful moments in recent past history in our country -- the fact that a major American city went through a natural disaster, and we found almost (ph) little to do.
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Persicco, a smaller family-run group known for its stylish interiors and chocolate-based flavours such as chocolate amargo (dark chocolate), has 10 outlets around the city.
There was a time a generation ago when cancer patients had to trudge into dark basement offices of city hospitals to get the most advanced radiation treatments.
The Japanese city you find yourself in is at once dark and bursting with color, and is being tightly patrolled by bulky boar guards and more diminutive cranes and monkeys.
The final battle between Agent Smith and Neo is in a dark city, during a rainstorm, and where they are moving very fast.
Alternatively, dark and dingy Danish bodegas are found everywhere in the city and they are an authentic experience and always serve cheap beer.
In its own dark way, the movie is a big wet kiss to the city by the bay.
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