NEW YORK | Park Avenue Malls
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Help Redesign Park Avenue, City Asks New Yorkers A major construction project at Grand Central Terminal is giving the city the chance to restore Park Avenue's malls to their former glory. https://patch.com/img/cdn20/users/23...1130538144.jpg https://patch.com/img/cdn20/users/23...jpg?width=1300 Nick Garber, Patch Staff Dec 21, 2020 Quote:
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About damn time.
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More info and surveys on the website...
https://nycdotprojects.info/project/park-avenue Re-imagining Park Avenue Re-imagining Park Avenue for the future. Quote:
MAP of the overall plan: https://nycdotprojects.info/sites/de...2019-01-09.pdf https://a4.pbase.com/o12/06/102706/1....1_InPixio.jpg https://a4.pbase.com/o12/06/102706/1...p0_InPixio.jpg https://a4.pbase.com/o12/06/102706/1...p1_InPixio.jpg https://a4.pbase.com/o12/06/102706/1...p2_InPixio.jpg https://a4.pbase.com/o12/06/102706/1...CskWoh.c12.JPG |
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Yes!
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What a COOL Shot.. from the cars, looks to be the 40's!! What's the tower to the left? |
^ mid-1950s
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It would be nice to think of this promenade as an opportunity to provide additional outdoor space. I am thinking about stalls for food carts, book sellers, and other goods with a pedestrian-only strip down the middle and lots of greenery and some canvas canopies here there. This could help in case of future pandemics or just green space for the office workers. Push the bikes/scooters to a protected bike lane and shrink the space dedicated to cars. There's no reason for Park Ave to be 4 lanes across on either side.
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The tower is the Carlyle, a fancy hotel on Madison Ave. The photo shows Park Ave. in the low 70's, looking uptown. |
I Hope it does return big time.
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FINALLY!
Back Park Ave. Does anyone have a timeline? |
While I love the idea of bringing back a walkable green space to Park Ave (not to mention the traffic flow benefits of dedicated turning lanes), the last thing NYC needs is another speedway for homicidal Lance Armstrong wannabes. The Park Avenue malls should be for pedestrians only, or they simply shouldn’t happen.
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I think thats an unwarranted concern. Aside frombthe fact the bicycle lane would likely be segratwd from the rest of the space, unlike cyclists on the street which would pass through interesections with the directional flow of traffic, cyclists in the mall space would be forced to stop at every cross street because they would be approaching a sidewalk. A fair question would be whether the cycle lanes on the mall would be used all that much at all for this reason.
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It's so obvious that Park Ave does not need to be 8 lanes wide.
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