{"id":4883,"date":"2009-05-28T08:06:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T13:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4883"},"modified":"2009-05-28T08:17:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T13:17:47","slug":"the_great_triumphs_of_the_bloomberg_tenure_flower_pots_full_of_cigarette_butts_menus_littered_with_odd_four-digit_numbers_and_lawn_furniture_on_broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/the_great_triumphs_of_the_bloomberg_tenure_flower_pots_full_of_cigarette_butts_menus_littered_with_odd_four-digit_numbers_and_lawn_furniture_on_broadway.html","title":{"rendered":"The Great Triumphs Of The Bloomberg Tenure: Flower Pots Full Of Cigarette Butts, Menus Littered With Odd Four-Digit Numbers And Lawn Furniture On Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can decide if that counts as a “sweeping vision” or just a series of small-bore Clinton-esque tweaks. As for the lawn furniture, the big so-called traffic-reducing Broadway pedestrian mall initiative<\/a> apparently has met at least one of its goals<\/a>:<\/p>\n

While tourists and others enjoyed moseying around the traffic-free oasis on its first business day as a pedestrian mall, anyone making a delivery around Times Square fumed. <\/p>\n

Drivers said streets surrounding the blocked-off areas were clogged with traffic — and pulling in front of a business to unload heavy boxes became a thing of the past. <\/p>\n

“This is making my job more challenging,” said Steven McFadden, 48, a deliveryman for Citi Storage. “Longer walks to loading entrances, more competition for parking, more time for fewer deliveries and more parking tickets.” <\/p>\n

John Gannon, 55, a mail carrier, predicted a long summer with traffic blocked off. <\/p>\n

“For anybody who has to make a curbside delivery, it will be a problem. You’d have to park and walk a block or two,” he said. “If [Mayor] Bloomberg wants it to last, though, it’ll last.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And you can amend the post title to include “Naked Cowboys”<\/a> in the mayor’s sweeping vision:<\/p>\n

Times Square and Herald Square vendors are cashing in on the car-free Broadway. <\/p>\n

Everyone from food and souvenir hawkers to street performers said they were rolling in the dough yesterday thanks to the flood of pedestrians on the Great White Way. <\/p>\n

“It is the coolest thing in the world. My business has quadrupled. It is like New Year’s Eve every day,” crowed the “Naked Cowboy,” Robert Burck.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can decide if that counts as a “sweeping vision” or just a series of small-bore Clinton-esque tweaks. As for the lawn furniture, the big so-called traffic-reducing Broadway pedestrian mall initiative apparently has met at least one of its goals: While tourists and others enjoyed moseying around the traffic-free oasis on its first business day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,46,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manhattan","category-quality_of_life","category-see_the_thing_is_was"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4885,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions\/4885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}