Stadiou Street

Under a banner saying "Protect those who protect you," uniformed officers staged a sit-in protest outside the Parliament on Monday to show their support for the 31-year-old police sergeant who remains hospitalized in critical condition after being struck by a naval flare during a volleyball match in Athens earlier in the month.

Traffic on Stadiou Street in downtown Athens was interrupted on Monday due to a protest organized by uniformed officers. The protest is in response to the non-legalization of their profession as hazardous.

According to the police, approximately 1,500 individuals are gathered near the Old Parliament building.

Traffic restrictions will be in place in downtown Athens on Thursday for the official visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, police have announced.

Measures include the gradual and temporary restriction of circulation traffic, and a ban on stopping and parking at several sections of the road network.

Gradual road closures will come into effect ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic Uprising, to be commemorated with a big rally across the city centre on Friday.

The building complex on Stadiou Street that hosts the Attikon and Apollon cinemas and was partly destroyed in a fire in February 2012 will finally be restored, according to the investor who leased the complex on September 29 for 50 years.

Old-style cinemas of the type we had before the dominance of multiplexes are returning to the center of Athens.

In the next few years, and as long as all the business plans are implemented, both the Apollon and the Attikon cinema in Stadiou Street will reopen, while the Cine Ideal in Panepistimiou Street is expected to be drastically upgraded, and the Astor will regain its glory.

Our cities look like vast construction sites. This is not because of major infrastructure projects like the metro, for example, where the hassle is "temporary but the benefits permanent," nor is it a new phenomenon. It's been years that Greek cities have been beset by crews digging all over the place.

Traffic shutdowns and road diversion will be in place on Sunday because of the "Greece Race for the Cure in Athens."

The race is a fundraiser for breast cancer and includes a running and a walking section.

I have observed the following: After the fiasco of the redevelopment of Panepistimiou Street in central Athens - the so-called Grand Walk - any project announced by the Municipality of Athens stumbles upon the suspicion of a portion of citizens regardless of their political leanings.

Greek politicians marked the 13-year anniversary of the firebomb attack on a branch of Marfin Bank in downtown Athens which led to the death of three people.