City officials want to see Times Square-like pedestrian plazas in every corner of the city - at least one in each of the city's 59 community boards, according to an article by Erin Einhorn in today's edition of The New York Daily News.
At least that's the "hope," said Andy Wiley-Schwartz, the Transportation Department's assistant commissioner for planning and sustainability in testimony yesterday before a City Council committee, the article said.
"It is certainly our intention to create a pedestrian plaza in all 59 districts," Wiley-Schwartz said, adding "however, this is a community-driven, application-driven process."
Officials, he said, won't be "flying over at 30,000 feet and plopping them down where a map tells us is a good spot," the article said.
Shutting Broadway to traffic in Times Square remains controversial, the article said, "but that move is just the highest profile of 17 new pedestrian plazas around the city" and "another 25 plazas are in the works, officials said.
At least that's the "hope," said Andy Wiley-Schwartz, the Transportation Department's assistant commissioner for planning and sustainability in testimony yesterday before a City Council committee, the article said.
"It is certainly our intention to create a pedestrian plaza in all 59 districts," Wiley-Schwartz said, adding "however, this is a community-driven, application-driven process."
Officials, he said, won't be "flying over at 30,000 feet and plopping them down where a map tells us is a good spot," the article said.
Shutting Broadway to traffic in Times Square remains controversial, the article said, "but that move is just the highest profile of 17 new pedestrian plazas around the city" and "another 25 plazas are in the works, officials said.
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Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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