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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.









Nick Garber, Patch Staff
Dec 21, 2020

Work is set to begin on a massive, 20-year project to rebuild parts of Grand Central Terminal, and the construction may give the city the chance to restore Park Avenue to its former glory.

As the name suggests, Park Avenue was once home to wide, plant-covered pedestrian malls, but the medians were narrowed in 1927 to add extra lanes of car traffic.

Starting early next year, the $2 billion rehabilitation of the Grand Central train shed will force the city to tear up a stretch of the avenue as they repair tunnels and the 1.8-mile Park Avenue viaduct.

That provides an opportunity to reimagine a stretch of Park Avenue between Grand Central and 57th Street, including the possibility of widening the malls to allow pedestrian access once again.

An online portal launched last Monday by the Department of Transportation gives an overview of the avenue's history, lists some possible improvements and includes a survey where New Yorkers can weigh in on which version they like best.