1. Archie Wilfred, a bartender at the Schutzen Club, was sweeping the sidewalk and said he had not served a customer all day. 2. A woman sweeps the sidewalk outside her shop. 3. Across Delancey, someone is scrubbing down an oven, preparing it for resale, and a few men sweep the sidewalks. 4. But mostly they knew her from the neighborhood, where she liked to sweep the sidewalk and shovel snow in the winter. 5. Even if he swept the sidewalk in front of the door he would be upbraided for doing a poor job. 6. I met him last year sweeping the sidewalk in front of his heavily-damaged Northridge home a few days after the earthquake. 7. Just sweep the sidewalks a bit so the homeless have clean beds available. 8. Likewise, merchants have been prevented from sweeping the sidewalks in front of their businesses, he said. 9. Local volunteers in matching white T-shirts sporting red NGO logos swept sidewalks with twig brooms and smiled politely at passing foreigners on the cool, overcast morning. 10. Sanitation workers continued to clean up the area near the collapsed buildings and custodians were sweeping the sidewalks. |