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A boulevard
Boulevard
A Boulevard is type of road, usually a wide, multi-lane arterial thoroughfare, divided with a median down the centre, and roadways along each side designed as slow travel and parking lanes and for bicycle and pedestrian usage, often with an above-average quality of landscaping and scenery...

is a type of road
Road
A road is a thoroughfare, route, or way on land between two places, which typically has been paved or otherwise improved to allow travel by some conveyance, including a horse, cart, or motor vehicle. Roads consist of one, or sometimes two, roadways each with one or more lanes and also any...

, typically a wider more formal road.
Boulevard may also refer to:

Film

  • Boulevard (1960 film)
    Boulevard (1960 film)
    Boulevard is a French film directed by Julien Duvivier, released in 1960, and set in the Quartier Pigalle. It focuses on the character 'Jojo', an adolescent who lives in a poor room in Pigalle. Among the others who share the house where he lives is Jenny Dorr , a dancer, about whose glamorous...

    , French drama
  • Boulevard (1994 film)
    Boulevard (1994 film)
    Boulevard is a 1994 crime thriller film starring Rae Dawn Chong and Lou Diamond Phillips.-Plot:The film is about a woman named Jennefer who runs from her abusive husband, gives her baby up for adoption and ends up on the streets during a grim and cold winter in Toronto. She's taken in by a...

    , American thriller

Magazines

  • The Boulevard Magazine
    The Boulevard Magazine
    The Boulevard is a Long Island/New York City Regional Variety magazine owned by Anton Community Newspapers. Founded in 1985, it was well received as a bi-monthly newspaper inserted into selective weekly newspapers in and around Long Island's famous Gold Coast.-History:The magazine began as a...

    , about New York State's Gold Coast area
  • Boulevard (magazine)
    Boulevard (magazine)
    Boulevard magazine, published by St. Louis University, is an American literary magazine that publishes award-winning prose and poetry. Boulevard has been called "one of the half-dozen best literary journals" by Poet Laureate Daniel Hoffman in The Philadelphia Inquirer.- Overview :Richard Burgin...

    , New York City Literary magazine

Music

  • Boulevard (Murray McLauchlan album)
    Boulevard (Murray McLauchlan album)
    Boulevard was a 1976 album by Canadian singer-songwriter Murray McLauchlan.-Track listing:All songs by Murray McLauchlan.# "Harder to Get Along" – 5:10# "Train Song" – 5:37# "Met You at the Bottom" – 5:03# "La Guerre, C'est Fini Pour Moi" – 5:16...

    , 1976
  • Boulevard (album)
    Boulevard (album)
    Boulevard is an album by French DJ Ludovic Navarre, released under the stage name St. Germain. It was originally released in the UK on July 28, 1995, but was later released in the USA March 26, 2002...

    , 1995 album by Ludovic Navarre
  • Boulevard (Song), single from Jackson Browne's 1980 album, "Hold Out"
  • Boulevard (band)
    Boulevard (band)
    Boulevard was a Canadian band formed in the mid-1980s by Mark Holden and Randy Gould . The band broke up in 1991.-History:...

    , Canadian rock, 1980s-early 90s

Transport

  • Road verge, one of a number of terms for a vegetative strip beside the carriageway
    Carriageway
    A carriageway consists of a width of road on which a vehicle is not restricted by any physical barriers or separation to move laterally...

     of a road.
  • Boulevard (Atlanta, Georgia)
  • Boulevard (Richmond, Virginia)
    Boulevard (Richmond, Virginia)
    Boulevard is a historic street in the near West End of Richmond, Virginia, providing access to Byrd Park. It serves as the border between the Carytown/Museum District to the west and the Fan district to the east...


Other

  • Boulevard, California
    Boulevard, California
    Boulevard is a census-designated place in the Mountain Empire area of southeastern San Diego County. At the 2010 census, it had a population of 315...

    , unincorporated community in the USA
  • Boulevards
    Boulevards
    Boulevards is a network of city guides on the Internet established in 1994 by Boulevards New Media Inc., an early digital media pioneer. It preceded other city guide networks such as Citysearch and Microsoft's now-defunct Sidewalk.com product, which launched under a similarly metaphorical brand and...

    , internet city guide network company
  • The Boulevard (Stadium)
    The Boulevard (Stadium)
    The Boulevard was a multi-purpose stadium in Hull, England. The venue was saved from demolition and reopened on 25 October 2007 as the home of greyhound racing in the city. It can also be used as a community stadium hosting amateur rugby league matches...

    , in Hull, England

See also

  • All pages beginning with "The Boulevard"
  • All pages beginning with "Boulevard"
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