Could this city get any better?
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That western exposure is a little fussy at the top. It’s distracting from the Guggenheim.
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This is spectacular!!!
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Very nice!
This nearby garbage also must come down ASAP.
Further, Madison (and other NY avenues and major cross streets) should emulate Chicago and widen the sidewalks and landscape them.
Walking the streets clogged with cars, trucks, and buses is not pleasant. Robert Moses is dead. There’s no need for street parking on avenues, and if people don’t like traffic, they shouldn’t drive in NYC.
Chicago is the paragon in this regard, and I’m surprised at how few cities follow its brilliant example.
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Chicago has a circulation system in the loop that no other city in thcUS can now emulate. After the big fire in the nineteenth century the streets were double decked and all delivery and truck stuff moved off the city streets. Garage entrances also went underground. Makes an enormous difference.
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We’re talking about different things here.
Yes, NYC should definitely widen sidewalks, essentially reclaiming the sidewalk space lost in the 1950’s when avenues were widened for more car lanes. But Chicago has even narrower sidewalks, and is far more auto-oriented. The pic shows North Michigan Ave., which has relatively narrow sidewalks. The portions of Chicago that have double decked streets are in portions of the Loop, which is a different part of town. And if NYC widened sidewalks, I sure as hell don’t want greenery taking the space; we need space for pedestrians, not a suburbanized streetscape.
I disagree. Paris also is adding more greenery to the Champs Elysee.
To each his own though.
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fits right in.
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