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Originally Posted by Crawford
And, yeah, sidewalks, especially the avenues in Manhattan, desperately need to be widened. Some, like Lex, 3rd, 2nd and 8th are ridiculous relevant to road width and pedestrian demand. They were all shrunk in the 40's and 50's. It's time to take the space back.
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I'd pedestrianize 34th from 6th to 9th, basically all of the financial district, take a lane away from every avenue from 7th to 2nd for more sidewalk, and close the area around/through Rockefeller Center to everything but commercial traffic and make those streets shared with pedestrians. To start.