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NYC’s Midtown Oasis?
By admins | March 2, 2009
In case you haven’t heard, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has another midtown traffic plan and this one directly affects our little neighborhood. Unlike his congestion pricing plan, we are actually excited about this one. It seems the mayor has decided to make Times Square, to the north of us, and Herald Square, to the south of us, pedestrian friendly zones. Bloomberg will be turning some of these areas along Broadway into outdoor plazas and thereby redirecting the flow of traffic. Right now this stretch of Broadway has 4.5 times more people than vehicles but only 11% of that area is allocated for pedestrians. We all know how dangerous Broadway is; when doesn’t somebody get sideswiped by a cab on Broadway? Between the new outdoor seating and planters we got last year, and this brand new plan the Garment Center is looking better than ever. The only down side, as far as we can see, is getting a cab after work is going to be even more of a pain in the ass. So, we can only hope that between Obama’s infrastructure stimulus and Bloomberg’s traffic obsessions, midtown will soon be our own little oasis.
(Pictures are NYC DOT renderings of what this area will look like when their vision is complete.)
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Topics: economy, enviroment, garment center, new york | 5 Comments » 
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March 3rd, 2009 at 11:47 am
Is this not fantastic? the co. i work for (also!), the 34th Street Partnership, will be assisting DOT in running the area (planters, furniture, etc.). I hope it’s a big success and becomes permanent. As far as cabs, hopefully there will be more to find on 7th? should be interesting to see what happens.
March 4th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Is this really happening, I’m so excited. Last year’s redo made such a difference. The more places to eat outside during the summer the better!
March 5th, 2009 at 1:17 am
FH- We wondered if you had anything to do with all this, it’s looking great. Any other big plans coming?
Denimhead – Agreed, too bad it’s not warm enough for this yet, we can’t wait.
March 7th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
I’ll keep you updated if I hear anything else, this is all DOT so far. We should be able to do some fun stuff with the space. and this should help the wichcraft kiosks there, right?!
May 26th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
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