The state and the city, in turn, have argued that a new skyscraper would transform what they describe as a blighted block and generate hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars in new tax revenues.

Situated in a former hamburger stand on a blighted block near the Bridgeport border, Stick to Your Ribs is also renowned for its no-frills ambiance and culinary oddities.

Officer Adorno's pitch was a crucial part of an intensive experiment undertaken by the 33d Precinct in Washington Heights in an effort to salvage some of the neighborhood's most blighted blocks.

A Brooklyn man was arrested last night and charged with stabbing to death a minister credited with helping to bring a blighted block of Harlem back to life.

Under the proposed deal, the Senecas would be given the city's convention center; Splash Park, a defunct water-amusement park behind it; and several other blighted blocks around it.

THE renewal of Atlantic City's Northwest Inlet oceanfront neighborhood, which since 1987 has transformed a ragged urban wasteland into a bright new enclave, is being extended inland to 20 adjacent blighted blocks.

Local merchants are desperate to see something done about the blighted block.

About a decade ago, he set up a practice in the Fordham section of the Bronx in a small brick building on a blighted block.

Hardly anybody lives on this blighted block in East Baltimore anymore.

AS soon as the ground thaws enough in the spring, construction is to begin to transform a blighted block of Monticello Avenue here into modern apartments and shops.