How to Use midtown in a Sentence

midtown

noun
  • Rents in midtown are very expensive.
  • To the right was the Hudson, shining in the light, and to the left were the buildings of Harlem, and then the glass-and-steel skyscrapers of midtown.
    Donald Antrim, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The idea began when Aaron and Jared, who live in midtown, saw a need for a place to have a beer after work.
    Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The incident took place on the 1400 block Navco Road south of midtown.
    Christopher Harress | Charress@al.com, al.com, 21 June 2019
  • One of the first Mexican eateries in New York City opened in midtown in 1938.
    David Kortava, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2022
  • But at one popular midtown Phoenix gay bar, the doors are locked.
    Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The rooftop garden offers views of the tops of midtown and downtown towers.
    Josh Barbanel, WSJ, 31 May 2018
  • Traffic in midtown barely moves for large parts of the day—and the air is often filthy with exhaust, the noise non-stop.
    William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • Winners and Losers up there in midtown is my favorite bar.
    Southern Living, 10 Nov. 2016
  • Winners and Losers up there in midtown is my favorite bar.
    Abby Wilt, Southern Living, 1 May 2017
  • From the street, the 11:30 Club looks like any other warehouse nestled against the railroad tracks on the northern edge of midtown.
    Ryan Lillis, sacbee, 19 May 2018
  • What was once a vacant lot with an old-school gas station in midtown Wauwatosa is now an ice cream shop.
    Sophia Vento, Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2023
  • Playwrights often hone their scripts when their shows move to midtown.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 29 July 2021
  • The loss of the grand midtown movie palace is far from the only thing that’s changed for filmmaking in the intervening years.
    Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2019
  • From 20 Midtown to the back-to-school sales tax holiday, here are some of the top business headlines today on AL.com.
    AL.com, 14 June 2017
  • Weed World trucks are disappearing from the streets of midtown!
    Curbed, 16 June 2022
  • The median sale in central midtown last month was $1,437 per square foot.
    Curbed, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Slow-walking through midtown, one enters the realm where people fly by like agents from The Matrix.
    Lisa Wood Shapiro, Wired, 1 Mar. 2020
  • The new lanes run between the sidewalk and cars parked along Armour, a key east-west connector in midtown.
    Sarah Gish, kansascity, 13 July 2018
  • The last one was at the Hofbräu Bierhaus, a very intentional beer hall in midtown.
    Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
  • Commuting to midtown took two and a half hours — on the rare occasions that there wasn’t any traffic.
    Jessica Pressler, Daily Intelligencer, 15 May 2018
  • Readers lined the block around the paper’s headquarters in midtown.
    Wesley Lowery, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
  • My brother’s a UPS driver who spends his days double-parked all over midtown.
    Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Sure, there were red carpet arrivals for the players and fans milling around midtown in jerseys of their favorite teams.
    Ken Belson, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Wash some Dramamine down with your first glass of Champagne and enjoy panoramic views that stretch from the Williamsburg Bridge to midtown.
    David Walters, The Cut, 13 Apr. 2018
  • As New York continues to rebound and all those reasons to be in midtown were stripped away, a deeper point has emerged.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 13 Apr. 2022
  • But as demonstrators clogged midtown streets, Trump, who is loath to face protesters, began to back away from the idea.
    Jonathan Lemire, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Sure, the symphony’s headquarters is in Detroit, in midtown, but that’s not in a neighborhood out in the city.
    Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The robbery took place at Carlton Fine Arts in midtown on September 25.
    Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The average age in the lounge of Coterie Hudson Yards, a posh senior-living center in midtown, is north of 80.
    Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 9 May 2024

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