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Recent Examples of alamedaOr are Allende’s grandes alamedas still beckoning all these years later?—Ariel Dorfman, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023 But what has resonated most, the words that adorn hundreds of monuments erected in plazas, streets, and playgrounds across the world, is his prophecy that someday the grandes alamedas, the great avenues lined with trees, would open for the free people of tomorrow to walk through.—Ariel Dorfman, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
Madison Ruiz, 21, was sitting alongside a curb at the parking lot of the arcade on July 13 around 12:30 a.m. near Erskine St. and Gateway Drive in East New York when Zachary Cando, 24, driving a 2023 Genesis G80, veered and struck Ruiz.
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Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
15 July 2025
On the opposite side of the arcade is the sports bar with a massive screen that towers over diners.
Many people walked with care around the colonnades flanking this historic piazza.
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NBC News,
NBC news,
7 May 2025
According to a report by French daily Le Monde, translated in the New York Times, Louvre director Laurence des Cars has called for the new entrance to merge with the surrounding architecture, that being the seventeenth-century colonnade of the museum’s eastern façade, near the Seine River.
The 63-year-old mall at Route 83 and 22nd Street in Oak Brook finished No. 4 in USA TODAY’s recently released 10BEST rankings.
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Chuck Fieldman,
Chicago Tribune,
22 July 2025
Part and parcel of reviving downtown Denver, which was beaten down during the COVID-19 pandemic and then had to endure a multiyear 16th Street mall reconstruction project, is revamping the city’s permitting system, Johnston said.
Surrounded by lush gardens that included a promenade and a small lake on the western branch of Waller Creek, the asylum attracted regular day visitors from Austin, most of which lay two to three miles to the south.
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Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
4 July 2025
Work on the Russell Commons Park promenade between Third and West Fourth streets is expected to wrap this summer.
The Depot, located on Santa Fe Avenue between Union Avenue and W. 11th Street, is a park, a 2/3 of an acre plaza designed to be a central public gathering space, with benches and public art.
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Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
8 July 2025
Long before the renovation, the plaza was the launch pad for Chris Bianco’s career.
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