But the modern movement began in New York in 1973 when the Green Guerilla group transformed a vacant lot into a productive garden.
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The two residents, whose modest white clapboard homes are separated by a vacant house, a boarded-up Methodist church and dozens of junked cars, are on friendly terms but tend to keep their distance.
We just didn't consider the possibility that a governor might see a vacant Senate seat as a means of enriching himself.
Yet Nelson also estimates that in 2025 there will be a surplus of 22 million large-lot homes that will not be left vacant in a suburban wasteland but instead occupied by lower classes who have been driven out of their once affordable inner-city apartments and houses.
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It flatters a vacant-eyed kid with a joystick (to say nothing of the grownups who have bought it for him or sold it to him) to think of himself, spiritually, as an intrepid spelunker.
Rather than these properties avoiding rates, the report suggests imposing 100% rates on houses left vacant for six months or more rising to 200% for houses left vacant for a year or more.
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When she and Marjorie arrived home from church one Sunday to find the space where the stereo had sat looking as vacant as a missing tooth, Candy had felt a rush of elation.
And hopefully we'll continue to take steps to stabilize home prices and start to fill up some of the several million homes that are currently vacant as a result of our economic downturn.
In other words, they could hop off an occupied channel and onto a vacant one before causing so much as a blip on television sets in the area.
The Pit lurks behind high, unkempt shrubs, the only thing on a block of vacant lots, like a last tooth.
My spouse and I know this by personal experience: An out-of-town family who owns a vacant home next door replaced my freshly unemployed spouse a couple years back with a (Spanish-only) lawn service despite the fact that we live next door, we knew their late mother for many years, and they knew my spouse was fresh out of work.
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The seat was left vacant when its previous occupant, Tim Scott, was appointed to a vacant Senate seat.
Today, the buildings are a largely vacant eyesore flanking Sunset Boulevard, a reminder of the challenges real-estate investors face even as new residents and some development have begun to reverse Hollywood's decline.
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"The great thing is, if one of these shops doesn't feel it's getting the most out of this location, they can potentially move to another part of the country with a vacant bit of land, without having to close down or dismantle a thing, " says Wade.
In Patchogue, officials were investigating a collapse at a vacant auto parts store, and Deer Park High School sent students home after a leaky roof.
On its back, two strips of soft-touch plastic break the back into segments: a removable bit up top that houses the 3.5mm headphone jack, a micro-SIM, a vacant microSD slot (the phone comes with 16GB of internal storage) and a fixed piece at the bottom, above which you'll find the Xperia logo.
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On a vacant lot at 34 East 62nd Street, developer Janna Bullock is planning to build a six-level Modernist limestone townhouse designed by architect Preston Phillips.
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In 1983 this magazine had a story about telecommuting, illustrated by a vacant freeway.
Who is to say whether a former worker or a vacant factory will ever produce again?
Sometimes, Cuellar, 43, sees a vacant stare when she looks into her husband's eyes.
Chairez was appointed by the governor to a vacant district court judgeship in 1994.
She was far behind in her first-ever race for a vacant House seat until the scandal broke.
"It's going to produce more tax dollars than before when it was a vacant eyesore, " he said.
Gravel roads were carved into a vacant field, and power lines were strung for some 600 trailers.
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The rescue mission already owned a vacant medical building in Highland Park, an impoverished city within Detroit's borders.
While prosecutors announced charges against Castro, federal agents searched a vacant house near where the women had been held.
At the time of closing, the demolition work had been completed and the property consisted of a vacant lot.
It leaves a vacant seat in the local authority's Leaderdale and Melrose ward.
Two conflicting New Jersey state laws about when to hold a special election to fill a vacant U.S. Senate seat add complexity.
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Charles Smith, 38, and Tonya Bundick, 40, were arrested on Tuesday morning, after a vacant house was set on fire.
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