1.   City officials and business people say the surging popularity of Times Square as a tourist destination has brought its busy sidewalks to the brink of gridlock.

2.   City sidewalks, busy sidewalks, dressed in holiday style.

3.   His tiny one-room home, just yards from his shoeshine stand, is one of thousands cramming the corridors off busy sidewalks.

4.   If he gets separated from you on a busy sidewalk, says Banks, he should go into the nearest store and ask a safe adult for help.

5.   Li aggressively takes the arms of passers-by on a busy sidewalk to drum up business.

6.   Linde has hung white voile on all four walls of the room, providing a subtle pleated barrier between it and the busy sidewalk outside.

7.   Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has said the ban is needed to ease congestion on busy sidewalks.

8.   The tape recorder was perched on the stoop in front of the garden apartment, the twin speakers a few feet from the busy sidewalk below.

9.   A crow squawks and struggles to stand on a busy Kuala Lumpur sidewalk.

10.   Vendors along the busy sidewalks have been doing a brisk business.