For what may have been only a fleeting interlude of sanity, Broadway in the Garment District enjoyed a respite this month from colonization by drug addicts and predatory vagrants.
An “experiment” that cheered merchants, employees and shoppers alike cleared the so-called “pedestrian plazas” from West 36th Street to West 41st of addict- and “homeless”-magnet seats and tables for about 10 days.The urban ideologues and bike zealots who think they know what’s best for our streets could learn something from the plaza fiasco, if they cared to listen to people whose lives were adversely affected by their hostile takeover of public property.
City Hall, the DOT and its bike-loving peanut gallery cheered the so-called “Broadway Boulevard Plazas” that ruined businesses and scared off normal, law-abiding shoppers and strollers. which manages them, crowed about goofy art it installed on them. As an “experiment,” the tables and chairs were yanked from the floors and bundled up in yellow tape at the plazas’ edges.Overjoyed shop and office employees shared their delight with The Post.
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