On the shabby uptown streets were crime, drugs, dirt and failure - the whole sinister mess of "things that swallow a teen-ager."
Engaging in a little petty thievery now and then and doing occasional begging on the uptown streets.
This was the job of visiting a small, deserted office on an uptown street, to bring back any mail that might be there.
There are uptown streets where people sit out on stoops, drinking canned beer, playing dominoes, watching over their children.
He went by taxicab to an uptown street.
Twelve minutes later, the chauffeur stopped in front of an old but well-preserved house that stood on an uptown street.
HALF an hour later, a chauffeur started from his seat behind the wheel of a luxurious limousine which was parked on an uptown street.
There were no pedestrians visible in the dark uptown streets through which he drove southward.
A shrill night wind whistled through the narrow uptown street, as if to shriek a warning.
Between 1873 and 1880, he built many of Manhattan's uptown streets from Harlem swamp land.