11.   In Ridgewood, Myrtle Avenue is swept by a private sanitation crew hired by the local business improvement district.

12.   It was built in cooperation with the Alliance for Downtown New York, which manages the lower Manhattan business improvement district.

13.   Like its East Coast alter ego, Times Square, Hollywood has a business improvement district, in which property owners assess themselves for cleaning and armed security patrols.

14.   Lincoln Polsgrove IV, a marketing and economic development officer for the Alliance, compares what is happening downtown under the improvement district to trendy New York neighborhoods.

15.   Millstein promised to aid residents of other neighborhoods in setting up park improvement districts under the same legislation he is seeking.

16.   Most of the restrictions approved earlier this month were initiated by a single business improvement district, the Alliance for Downtown New York in lower Manhattan.

17.   Ms. Dykstra of the Times Square improvement district said she doubted that Basciano would suffer from the loss of his neon-lighted flagship.

18.   Now that the economy has cooled, business improvement districts will have to work hard to keep their hero status.

19.   On Friday, Washington met with vendors and with representatives of several business improvement districts, which had asked the city to impose new restrictions on vending.

20.   Officials at the Partnership, a business improvement district that taxes and provides services to properties in midtown Manhattan, deny the accusations.