Since May 2009, the portions of Broadway through Duffy Square, Times Square, and Herald Square have been closed entirely to automobile traffic, except for cross traffic on the Streets and Avenues, as part of a traffic and pedestrianization experiment, with the pavement reserved exclusively for walkers, cyclists, and those lounging in temporary seating placed by the city.

On June 5, 2009 the city of Gainesville, Florida, officially renamed and dedicated its downtown plaza the Bo Diddley Community Plaza.

Pan-American Cheerleading Championships ( PCC ): The PCC was held for the first time in 2009 in the city of Latacunga, Ecuador and is the continental championship organised by the Pan-American Federation of Cheerleading ( PFC ).

The city served as the venue for the medical dramas ER and Chicago Hope, as well as the fantasy drama series Early Edition and 2005 – 2009 drama Prison Break.

Cleo Trumbo died of natural causes at the age of 93 on October 9, 2009, in the Bay Area city of Los Altos.

Labour further increased its number of councillors at the 2009 local elections and currently has the largest number of TD's from the city ( 10 out of 22 ).

In 2009, Dublin was listed as the fourth richest city in the world by purchasing power and 10th richest by personal income.

Several other films dealing with inner city issues and Black Britons were released in the 2000s such as Bullet Boy ( 2004 ), Life and Lyrics ( 2006 ) and Rollin ' With the Nines ( 2009 ).

The historic centre of Florence attracts millions of tourists each year, and Euromonitor International ranked the city as the world's 72nd most visited in 2009, with 1, 685, 000 visitors.

On 27 September 2009, the day before planned demonstrations in the capital city Conakry, the government declared demonstrations illegal.

and a 2009 survey by Mercer found Geneva to have the third-highest quality of life of any city in the world ( behind Vienna and Zurich ; it is narrowly outranked by Zurich ).

" In 2009 and 2011, Geneva was ranked as, respectively, the fourth and fifth most expensive city in the world.

Southampton IKEA ( which opened February, 2009 ) is also in the city centre.

* 2009 – A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.

Jemaah Islamiah-connected bombings occurred almost annually in the city between 2000 and 2005, with another bombing in 2009.

The ship they were being carried in, MV Faina was released and the tanks unloaded in the port city of Mombasa in February 2009.

Kaohsiung was the host city of the 2009 World Games, a multisport event primarily composed of sports not featured in the Olympic Games.

In Zinder, a 2009 local newspaper report claimed there were no more than " three to five " automobile taxis operating in a diffuse city which subsequently relies upon the only partially regulated motorcycle taxi sector.

* 2009 – Devastating floods, known as the 2009 Saudi Arabian Floods, following freak rains swamp the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia during an ongoing Hajj pilgrimage.

The city of Portland, Maine, known for its numerous nationally renowned restaurants, was ranked as Bon Appétit magazine's " America's Foodiest Small Town " in 2009.

Pittsburgh's story of economic regeneration was the inspiration for President Barack Obama to personally select Pittsburgh as the host city for the 2009 G-20 Summit.

Bucharest is known to be the only city in Romania which as of 2009 has an underground railway system, comprising both the Bucharest Metro and the light rail system Regia Autonomă de Transport Bucureşti.

More than 20, 000 people were forced to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2009, an action the DR Congo said was in retaliation for regular expulsion of Congolese diamond miners who were in Angola illegally.

In July 2009, it was revealed that Universal Studios had won the rights to adapt the game into a film.

The APG III system ( 2009 ) differs only in that the Limnocharitaceae are combined with the Alismataceae ; it was also suggested that the genus Maundia ( of the Juncaginaceae ) could be separated into a monogeneric family, Maundiaceae, but the authors noted that more study was necessary before Maundiaceae could be recognized.

In 2009, one of the subfamilies of Araliaceae was shown to be polyphyletic.

The private transaction was reported in a 2009 article in The Economist, which described Warhol as the " bellwether of the art market ".

In the 1998 version, Alliaceae were a distinct family ; in the 2003 version, combining the Alliaceae with the Agapanthaceae and the Amaryllidaceae sensu stricto was recommended but optional ; in the 2009 version, only the broad circumscription of the Amaryllidaceae is allowed, with the Alliaceae reduced to a subfamily, Allioideae.

A review of the management of degenerative ataxia was published in 2009.

In 2010, retail trade turnover was largely unaltered compared to 2009.

As of late November 2009, the Armenian government's foreign debt was around $ 3 billion USD, having doubled in size over the course of the previous year.

On 10 September 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for " the appalling way he was treated ".

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

It was signed into law on July 26, 1990, by President George H. W. Bush, and later amended with changes effective January 1, 2009.

< li > A unit was sold in September 2009 for $ 17, 000 on eBay.

In March 2009, NYSE Alternext U. S. was changed to NYSE Amex Equities.

In 2009, Aachen was ranked 8th among cities in Germany for innovation.

The building work for the stadium which has a capacity of 32. 960, began in May 2008 and was completed by the beginning of 2009.

By 2009 with natural gas prices at a long-term low, Alberta's economy was in poor health compared to before, although still relatively better than many other comparable jurisdictions.

Alberta was once the smallest of the three Prairie Provinces by population in the early 20th century, but by 2009, Alberta's population was 3, 632, 483 or approximately three times as much as either Saskatchewan ( 1, 023, 810 ) or Manitoba ( 1, 213, 815 ).

The January, 2009 collation of Alarums and Excursions was # 400.

He has written and produced seventy-three full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their first performance.

On August 21, 2009 it was announced that the institution had changed its name to Crandall University in honour of Rev.

* 215: 511 Philadelphia, PA was deprecated by state-wide use of 511 as road info in 2009 ; PA is the 36th state to adopt the system.

It was announced at the 2009 state of the franchise meeting that the Falcons would wear 1966 throwback uniforms for a couple games during the 2009 season.