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- adjective Located in the middle of a city
block
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Examples
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Sara Parris had apparently attempted to cross Rockaway Parkway midblock between Avenues J and K when she was hit by a 1993 BMW sedan, which went on to strike several parked cars before coming to a stop, police said.
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A few strides down the brick bordered by shaggy grass and over the curb, Paco crossed the street midblock.
Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011
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A few strides down the brick bordered by shaggy grass and over the curb, Paco crossed the street midblock.
Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011
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"A lot of people thought we were nuts for building midblock, off the avenue," Mr. Fetner said.
New Skyscraper Ignites Growth Below 34th Street Dana Rubinstein 2011
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Another factor is the city's encouragement of midblock redevelopment, often in the form of rebuilding old warehouse, office and residential buildings wedged between others into hotels.
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Second, Community Board Five is deeply troubled by this application's request for midblock up-zoning (from a C6-4. 5 to a C6-6) adding another 266,000 square feet to an application that lacks many confirmed details, including building size, height, tenancy, construction timetable or financing plans.
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All of the crowding is at the intersections, with nothing getting to midblock.
Time - The Art of Simplexity William Harryman 2009
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As amusing as it would be to see some guy on a hybrid sticking one khaki-clad leg and wingtip-shod foot out while pedaling frantically with the other, I don't want to be anywhere near him when he falls, nor do I want to be the one forced to fashion a tourniquet from his braided leather belt in order to stanch the bleeding of the pedestrian he's just flattened during another "midblock burst."
The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: The Wurst of Times BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Days before the New Museum opened, plans were revealed for yet another MoMA addition, an expressionistic, seventy-five-story midblock tower by Jean Nouvel.
Miracle on the Bowery Filler, Martin 2008
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Next, you want to "improve" a street in your neighborhood by adding a midblock crosswalk.
Jordan Green's Greensboro David Wharton 2007
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