{"id":34058,"date":"2020-07-25T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-pulls-plug-on-open-streets-program-near-prospect-park\/"},"modified":"2020-07-25T00:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T21:42:00","slug":"nyc-pulls-plug-on-open-streets-program-near-prospect-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-pulls-plug-on-open-streets-program-near-prospect-park\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC pulls plug on Open Streets program near Prospect Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#NYC pulls plug on Open Streets program near Prospect Park<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-wrapper\" role=\"main\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>        July 24, 2020 <span>|<\/span> 5:42pm         <\/p>\n<div id=\"featured-image-wrapper\">\n                        Enlarge Image<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People on Underhill Avenue in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.\" id=\"standard-article-image\"  src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/NYCstreet2.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=618&#038;h=410&#038;crop=1\" ><\/img><br \/>\n                <span>People on Underhill Avenue in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span>Paul Martinka<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n                        With little ceremony, City Hall announced Friday it is nixing two Brooklyn thoroughfares that border the borough\u2019s landmark Prospect Park from the popular Open Streets program.<\/p>\n<p>The move will again allow cars on Prospect Park West from Garfield to Third streets and on Parkside Avenue from Park Circle to Ocean Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Those stretches had been converted for pedestrian and bike use during the daytime following a chorus of complaints that crowding on Prospect Park\u2019s paved loop and walking trails made <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> distancing during the coronavirus pandemic difficult.<\/p>\n<p>The two stretches were among eight axed from the pedestrianization program and reopened to traffic. The others include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brooklyn\u2019s East 7th Street from Canton Street to Ditmas Avenue;<\/li>\n<li>The Bronx\u2019s Louis Nine Boulevard from Intervale Avenue to Southern Boulevard<\/li>\n<li>Manhattan\u2019s East 29th Street from Broadway to Madison Avenue<\/li>\n<li>Queens\u2019s Center Boulevard from 57th to Borden avenues, 27th Street from 43rd Avenue to Queens Plaza North and 85th street from 25th to 30th avenues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The de Blasio administration chalked up the move to low utilization along those corridors but acknowledged that the Transportation Department had no formalized methodology to track how heavily the segments were being used.<\/p>\n<p>City Hall also claimed it consulted local elected officials and community leaders, but did not identify any in response to queries from The Post.<\/p>\n<p>All told, the Transportation program nixed 2.8 miles of street from the program \u2014 as it announced plans to add 1.7 miles of street to the program across all five boroughs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery new program offers chances to track progress and establish best practices. Our Open Streets program is the biggest and farthest-reaching in the country, and removing a few streets that haven\u2019t been heavily used \u2013 while continuing to add more in other parts of the city \u2013 won\u2019t change that,\u201d said Hizzoner\u2019s spokesman, Mitch Schwartz.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/07\/24\/nyc-pulls-plug-on-open-streets-program-near-prospect-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#NYC pulls plug on Open Streets program near Prospect Park&#8221; July 24, 2020 | 5:42pm Enlarge Image People on Underhill Avenue in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Paul Martinka With little ceremony, City Hall announced Friday it is nixing two Brooklyn thoroughfares that border the borough\u2019s landmark Prospect Park from the popular Open Streets program. 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