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the city is celebrated for its broad, tree-lined boulevards
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In the decades that followed, hordes of white college students flocked to The Strip, the stretch of A1A between Las Olas and Sunrise boulevards, and piled into motels.
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Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
This grand avenue was modeled after 19th-century French engineer Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s Parisian boulevards, and it’s lined with a roll call of ornate late 19th and early 20th-century architecture, a historic neighborhood second to none in the United States.
—Everett Potter, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
During the depths of the pandemic, Las Vegas’ blindingly bustling main boulevard jerked to a grinding halt that highlighted the unconventional traits of the world’s biggest entertainment mecca — like how the grand doors to Sin City’s extravagant resorts are never closed nor unstaffed.
—Leena Tailor, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2025
In the years before the 1932 Olympics, the city likewise put many thousands of palms and other trees along wide, bare boulevards.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2025
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Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
This grand avenue was modeled after 19th-century French engineer Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s Parisian boulevards, and it’s lined with a roll call of ornate late 19th and early 20th-century architecture, a historic neighborhood second to none in the United States.
—Everett Potter, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
During the depths of the pandemic, Las Vegas’ blindingly bustling main boulevard jerked to a grinding halt that highlighted the unconventional traits of the world’s biggest entertainment mecca — like how the grand doors to Sin City’s extravagant resorts are never closed nor unstaffed.
—Leena Tailor, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2025
In the years before the 1932 Olympics, the city likewise put many thousands of palms and other trees along wide, bare boulevards.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2025
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“Boulevard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boulevard. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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boulevard
noun
bou·le·vard
ˈbu̇l-ə-ˌvärd 
ˈbül-
: a wide avenue often having grass strips with trees along its center or sides
Etymology
from French boulevard "walkway lined with trees," derived from early Dutch bolwerc "bulwark, rampart"; so called because the earliest boulevards were at sites of razed fortifications — related to bulwark
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