1.   And some Bushwick residents say they prefer shopping in Ridgewood rather than on their less prosperous commercial strip on Knickerbocker Avenue.

2.   As might be expected, residential blocks tended to be more soiled than commercial strips.

3.   At the other end of town is Pinardville, a nondescript commercial strip of shopping malls and supermarkets just across the river from the old textile mills of Manchester.

4.   A small but appealing commercial strip lies around Bruckner and Alexander, in the southernmost part of the South Bronx, where antique dealers and artists have moved in.

5.   But on James Street in Rome, a commercial strip only two blocks away from a major entrance to the festival, the impact on business was barely apparent.

6.   But with Cortelyou Road and its commercial strip at the corner, residents had access to modest grocery stores and video rentals, and many had the day off.

7.   Economic hardship has hit households and commercial strips.

8.   Five cartoon series are being produced at the building, on a nondescript commercial strip.

9.   First the men lived at the Parkwood Apartments, a town house complex near a busy commercial strip.

10.   He shot her three times in the side and left her bleeding in a commercial strip near Elmwood Park, the police said.