subway walls, tenements halls, sounds of silence, the area's arrival, late-arriving

Versace Mansion, a South Beach Star, Faces Auction

By LIZETTE ALVAREZ

The tenement that Gianni Versace transformed into an opulent palace after he bought it in 1992, signaling the area's arrival, is being offered at a reduced price as part of a bankruptcy proceeding.



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Take the Subway
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
How can we keep growing without consuming more resources?




“Perhaps some children grow up feeling themselves to be the center of the universe, but the physical evidence around me made clear that even in my own house, I was a very tiny, late-arriving drop in the vast ocean of other people’s lives and their shoes,” writes Catherine O’Flynn in Opinion.

arrival

Pronunciation: /əˈrʌɪv(ə)l/

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noun

[mass noun]

• the action or process of arriving:Ruth’s arrival in New York he was dead on arrival at hospital
• [count noun] a person who has arrived somewhere:hotel staff greeted the late arrivals
• the emergence or appearance of a new development or product:the arrival of democracy
• [count noun] a newly emerged development or product:sociology is a relatively new arrival on the academic scene

Origin:

late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French arrivaille, from Old French arriver (see arrive)

ten·e·ment (tĕn'ə-mənt)
n.

1. A building for human habitation, especially one that is rented to tenants.
2. A rundown, low-rental apartment building whose facilities and maintenance barely meet minimum standards.
3. Chiefly British. An apartment or room leased to a tenant.
4. Law. Property, such as land, rents, or franchises, held by one person leasing it from another.

[Middle English, house, from Old French, from Medieval Latin tenēmentum, from Latin tenēre, to hold.]

tenemental ten'e·men'tal (-mĕn'tl) adj.



Spotlight:

Catching the Train

How many people ride NY's subway every day? The New York City subway system is one of the few to run nonstop, day and night, 365 days a year. More than five million commuters ride the subway every weekday, nearly three million on Saturdays and almost two-and-a-half million on Sundays. The first underground line of New York's rapid transit subway system opened one hundred and five years ago today. Its first route ran from City Hall to W. 145th Street. Some of the ceramic tile art work which decorated the station at the subway's opening still exists today. Paintings, sculptures, mosaics and murals continue to decorate the subway lines and stations. Musicians and street entertainers provide entertainment at the stations. Competing for high-traffic locations for their performances, they audition through the Music Under New York program.

Quote:

"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence" — Paul Simon, "The Sounds of Silence"