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An alley or alleyway is a narrow lane, path, or passageway, often reserved for pedestrians, which usually runs between, behind, or within buildings in towns and cities. It is also a rear access or service road ( back lane ), or a path, walk, or avenue (French allée ) in a park or garden.
Generically such an alleyway is termed a close / ˈ k l oʊ s /, a Scots term for alleyway, although it may be individually named close, entry, court, or wynd. A close is private property, hence gated and closed to the public, whereas a wynd is an open thoroughfare, usually wide enough for a horse and cart [ citation needed ] .
Alleyway [a] is a 1989 video game developed by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo as a global launch title for the Game Boy. It is a Breakout clone and one of the first four games developed and released for the system. The game was released first in Japan in 1989, in North America later that year, and in Europe in 1990.
A ginnel is a word in various Scottish and northern English dialects [1] describing a fenced or walled alley between residential buildings that provides a pedestrian shortcut to nearby streets. [2] Ginnels are typically found in suburban areas, and do not contain any business premises, unlike some other types of alley.
There are conflicting explanations regarding the origins of the term "Tin Pan Alley". The most popular account holds that it was originally a derogatory reference made by Monroe H. Rosenfeld in the New York Herald to the collective sound made by many "cheap upright pianos" all playing different tunes being reminiscent of the banging of tin pans in an alleyway.
An alley house is a style of house constructed in an alley that serves the back of other homes rather than a larger residential street. Often, these take the form of terraced houses, which can maximize the use of the spatial limitations of an alley. Alley houses were prevalent in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; their small ...
The Snickelways of York, often misspelt Snickleways, are a collection of narrow streets and alleys in the city of York, England.The word Snickelway was coined by local author Mark W. Jones in 1983 in his book A Walk Around the Snickelways of York, and is a portmanteau of the words snicket, meaning a passageway between walls or fences, ginnel, a narrow passageway between or through buildings ...
In 2016, Amazon.com was required by the city council to allow 24-hour public access and a "free speech zone" on part of its new downtown headquarters campus in exchange for an alley vacation; other benefits include paying $3.4 million in fair market value for the alley, a public hill-climb, and bicycle lanes. [6] [7]