At first I thought the city was empty. The buildings all were empty and in poor repair.
VOA: special.2010.07.17
The suburbs may be pleasant enough when parents are absorbed with work and children, but for the childless and the empty-nesters thecity has many merits.
Before the storm 18% of the 11 million square feet available in thecity sat empty, vacancy rates that were five percentage points higher than the national average.
The typical landscape of a Newman film was the raw sidestreets of a city or theempty plains, in which a man would try to get a grip on an aimless, violent life.