street corners
Where roads meet
Street corners are the points where two streets intersect, specifically the outer angles formed at the junction.
The term often carries connotations of urban public life—loitering, chance encounters, or informal commerce: Kids hung out on street corners, a street-corner preacher.
Drug dealing and prostitution are stereotypically associated with street corners in certain neighborhoods.
- sidewalksPaved pedestrian pathways
- loiteringPurposeless public lingering
- subway stationsUnderground rail boarding points
- intersectionPoint where paths meet
- graffitiIllegal surface markings
standing around · urban decay · vendors · stoop · lookouts · foot traffic · buskers · crossroads · handbills · drug deals · dice games · neon lights · curb · pedestrian · shadows · late night · junction · hanging out
- old townscobblestones, town square, town squares, alleyways, narrow alleys
- street gridavenues, boulevards, intersections, blocks, city blocks
- cobblestone streetscobblestones, paving stones, setts, granite blocks, flagstones
- rough neighborhoodsslums, ghettos, ghetto, inner city, projects
- cityscapesskyline, city skyline, skylines, skyscraper, urban landscapes
- Music OriginsNew Orleans, Memphis, Nashville, Jamaica, Motown
street cornersopen fields
Unenclosed expanses of land
wilderness · countryside · backcountry · off the grid · remote areas
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