21.   Empty lots became the defining image of childhood for a rap producer raised here, who named his record label Vacant Lot.

22.   Empty lots give way to playgrounds and new houses.

23.   Every day, he sits near the empty lot.

24.   Four-inch lettuce leaves poke from the soil on what had been an empty lot in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

25.   From the clubhouse, the vista beyond the track is still one of deteriorated tenements, vacant warehouses and empty lots.

26.   From her living room, she can see an empty lot and rows of boarded windows.

27.   Goats graze in a nearby empty lot, on scraps of greens thrown to them by a vegetable peddler.

28.   He cleaned-up empty lots and boarded-up vacant properties.

29.   He has walked the routes they follow from home to school each day, past the empty lots and burned-out buildings.

30.   He scanned the empty lots of what was once his urban neighborhood.