Howard Beach springs from the primal urban nightmare - having your car break down in the "wrong" neighborhood.

The paradox was that this urban nightmare was happening at a time of national prosperity.

With the passage of time, most people seem to have shrugged off the explosion as another anomalous urban nightmare, albeit an unforgettable one.

Now there's an urban nightmare: can you call 311 to complain about the specter who has sublet space in your head?

Judged by the standards of the white middle class, it is an urban nightmare, a place that offers neither safety nor prosperity to its citizens.

It is an urban nightmare that won't go away.

For Mr. Johnson, 27 years old, the urban nightmare depicted in the film was real.

Like Freddy, the Man on the Grate has long been a part of our urban nightmares.

IT was an urban nightmare that ended in murder.

But "City of God" has its own voice and look, a jagged jump-cut into an urban nightmare.