Alley public, although other commentators feel that the lack of alleys is a benefit to the quality of life of the city. Two notable alleys in the Greenwich Village neighborhood in Manhattan are MacDougal Alley and Washington Mews. The latter is a blind alley or "cul-de-sac". Greenwich Village also has a number of private alleys that lead to back houses, which can only be accessed by residents, including Grove Court, Patchin Place and Milligan Place, blind alleys. Patchin Place is notable for the writers who lived there. Shubert Alley is a long pedestrian alley at the heart of the Broadway theater
Determiner phrase Determiner phrase In linguistics, a determiner phrase (DP) is a type of phrase posited by some theories of syntax. The head of a DP is a determiner, as opposed to a noun. For example in the phrase "the car", "the" is a determiner and "car" is a noun; the two combine to form a phrase, and on the DP-analysis, the determiner "the" is head over the noun "car". The existence of DPs is a controversial issue in the study of syntax. The traditional analysis of phrases such as "the car" is that the noun is the head, which means the