I don’t get the pedestrian mall at Times Square or the tables and chairs on the dividers in the street. Carbon monoxide with your health salad? For that matter, what’s with side walk cafes in NY? This is not some piazza in some beautiful city in Italy where the pollution is so romantic and delicious because it is Italian. Actually most of the pollution and carcinogens come from products partially made in China, so imagine that charming street scene in Beijing. Enjoy your lunch!
I know what you mean – these cordoned off sections of Broadway are not very hospitable.
Encouraged by your positive-oriented college friends, I commend you to take a stroll on the High Line. Try to ignore the cost to our city ($150 mill) or the annual upkeep (obscene) and enjoy a nice stroll overlooking the once grubby now chic meatpacking district. You can even catch a performer singing on The Renegade Balcony (who cares if it’s really a fire-escape). It’s particulary nice at dusk when you can see the beautiful lighting.
Next sunny day, the family is walking the high life — oops I mean the high line!! Thanks, MommaNan.
I think it is no accident that these designated spaces are being laid out right alongside aggressive Manhattan traffic. There is a conspiracy afoot. Its name? Population Control.