city center

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Wearing helmets and ponchos, the protesters, many of whom waved rainbow-colored Indigenous flags, marched toward the city center to the din of firecrackers.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

"Times are tough," the 27-year-old, who now commutes by bicycle from his Havana suburb to the city center, told AFP.

From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026

At Linate Airport, the closest of Milan’s three airports to the city center, two camouflage-clad Italian soldiers with long guns milled outside the arrival gates Monday evening.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

He pulls long shifts of guard duty in the city center and still lives with his family in a working class Damascus suburb.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

We’d walk from my house down to the city center, which was like a three-hour hike, just to hang out, and then we’d walk all the way back.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah