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uptown

adjective as in classy

adjective as in moneyed

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People looking to head uptown were told that the 1 Train was out of service for most of Lower Manhattan.

Just uptown from Ground Zero, a young Wall Street lawyer named Hina Shamsi had been on her way to work on the morning of the attacks and witnessed the collapse of the South Tower from a crowded street corner in Lower Manhattan.

From there, head uptown to the new Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals at the American Museum of Natural History, where thousands of specimens are on display, some for the first time.

Marquise Kennedy was a junior at Brother Rice High School in Chicago when the Jesuit university uptown made a run to the Final Four of the 2018 men’s NCAA tournament.

There was no trouble on the ferry as it reached Manhattan and a few of the passengers boarded the subway to the protest uptown.

Of course many youngsters go uptown because, with rents skyrocketing downtown, it makes economic sense.

Back in March, a 44-year-old woman died after jumping from a building uptown while clutching her 10-month-old son.

I trudged in some direction, uptown I hoped, toward my hotel, which was not really near Fifth Avenue and probably not uptown.

As they drove uptown, the sky was blue, the temperature just right.

Death stood on the Times Square subway platform, uptown side, waiting for a subject.

As he followed him on uptown, down his side-street, Lamb had a curious sense of elation.

Up Fourth avenue and two turns to blade through heavy uptown traffic and then down the street where Tess Rillette lived.

It was hoped that uptown organizations would establish branches of their work in this house.

He had some ready money, and he lived uptown at the Imperial.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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