Proposed: A promenade up an expanded Park Ave median (New York: gardens, moving to)
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The damper sounds like cross traffic every block.
Net effect is they will be destroying lots of beautiful gardens in order to add another sidewalk...on an avenue that doesn't get much foot traffic.
Silly idea...but I guess City developers have to spend their time doing SOMETHING.
Every little bit of green space counts. I’m sure the thousands of office workers who work on Park Avenue would appreciate a place sit outside to eat lunch, even if it is in the middle of traffic.
I can see this in the Midtown area's commercial corridor on Park Avenue, but not the residential areas on the UES and above as I agree with Kefir King in that there's no need for another sidewalk as Park has a fraction of the pedestrian traffic of Madison, Fifth, or even Third.
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Every little bit of green space counts. I’m sure the thousands of office workers who work on Park Avenue would appreciate a place sit outside to eat lunch, even if it is in the middle of traffic.
And the net effect of he mid street sidewalk will be the ELIMINATION of greenspace, not an addition to it. Park Avenue is the only Street in Manhattan WITH built in Greenspace (not counting some of the catastrophes on the Lower East Side.)
And every corner has benches where workers can have lunch amidst the tulips, begonias and chrysanthemums depending on the season. It is one of NYC's nicest street amenities and it would be criminal to dig it up.
Like it could ever happen with the kind of MONEY that lines that street. You'd have Vanderbilts, Whitneys, Rockefellers, and Forbses marching with picket signs to stop the destruction of the gardens.
Last edited by Kefir King; 10-27-2012 at 07:50 AM..
Yeah,
Another good example that I forgot about but the Broadway gardens are very much narrower if I can trust my eyeballs. The Park Avenue gardens are really something. Those volunteers SLAVE at keeping them beautiful and it is a really nice amenity for an area with very little greenspace. My hat is off to them.
(There's a little playground/park between 92nd and 93rd and Second and Third that has been shut for a year because the Koch Administration sold it for a song to RELATED...and they want to squeeze yet ANOTHER immense tower in between all the others effectively neutering the block.)
These little amenities are TREASURES that once tossd away will never come back and it will contribute to the Duane-Readeing of New York City...a process that is already moving too fast.
And the net effect of he mid street sidewalk will be the ELIMINATION of greenspace, not an addition to it. Park Avenue is the only Street in Manhattan WITH built in Greenspace (not counting some of the catastrophes on the Lower East Side.)
And every corner has benches where workers can have lunch amidst the tulips, begonias and chrysanthemums depending on the season. It is one of NYC's nicest street amenities and it would be criminal to dig it up.
Like it could ever happen with the kind of MONEY that lines that street. You'd have Vanderbilts, Whitneys, Rockefellers, and Forbses marching with picket signs to stop the destruction of the gardens.
Pre-War Park Avenue was always a pedestrian greenaway and only got opened up to cars after the War. So we are only putting it back to it's former glory.
Pre-War Park Avenue was always a pedestrian greenaway and only got opened up to cars after the War. So we are only putting it back to it's former glory.
Actually,
It was a disgusting hole in the ground for the railroad to travel North South.
It was covered to keep people from succumbing to fumes and then it became the world famous boulevard it is today.
There was no "glory" associated with early Park Avenue (Fomerly called Fourth Avenue when it was nauseating.)
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