article_snippet.sent: Gone (mostly) are the rough tenements and in the rough tenements place, a bustling network of shop-lined streets and some seriously classy bars and hotels.
article_snippet.sent: The next morning, it was off to New York which, with it claustrophobic cluster of skyscrapers and determinedly chic inhabitants, was a very different prospect indeed.
article_snippet.sent: : Queens has had a makeover, with tough neighbourhoods replaced with cool shops and chic bars .
article_snippet.sent: Among tough neighbourhoods replaced with cool shops and chic bars are the staff at the Roger Smith Hotel in Manhattan, who took a break from watching the Super Bowl to ply me with burgers and fries as I arrived, dishevelled, following a five-hour flight from Reykjavik.