5th Avenue and 12th Street, Manhattan

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Originally Posted by Kefir King

So who remembers MARBORO BOOKS on West Eight between MacDougal and Sixth Ave.? (Now THAT memory goes back almost to high school.)


Last night again at Astor Place. I noticed how HUGE the pedestrian area had grown at the price of auto-traffic streets.

My memory does go back to HS. That whole area used to be teeming with used book stores. Now, except for the Strand and one other, all gone.

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Originally Posted by BugsyPal

That huge pedestrian plaza pisses me off no end. Not only has traffic been narrowed on part of Lafayette Street, but now you cannot make that left onto Astor and merge onto 8th Street, nor take Broadway across to reach Third Avenue. Either way you have go up to a now a narrower 8th Street.

You know what I DO like? That immense widening of Cooper Square going South of Astor Place. Trying to cross at 6th Street required an Act of Confession before stepping off the curb with cars and cabs shooting every which way. Now it is much more pedestrian friendly.