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  • adjective Located in the middle of a city block

Etymologies

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mid- +‎ block

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Examples

  • 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.

    Greater New York Watch 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • "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

  • 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.

    InterContinental Plans New York Hotel Expansion 2010

  • 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.

    Henry J. Stern: 15 Penn Plaza: The Great Giveaway 2010

  • All of the crowding is at the intersections, with nothing getting to midblock.

    Time - The Art of Simplexity William Harryman 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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