Posted on 05/09/2026 8:06:04 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
New York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) Commissioner Mike Flynn today unveiled design concepts to put the ‘park’ back in Park Avenue...
The proposed redesign would expand the avenue’s median, add pedestrian enhancements, seating and landscaping, and explore potential bike lanes and innovative streetscape amenities. The project area sits directly above the Grand Central Terminal train shed, which is undergoing a major capital rehabilitation by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)’s Metro-North Railroad.
As the MTA replaces and waterproofs the structure below, the City is advancing a parallel effort to transform the avenue above — aligning infrastructure renewal with a broader vision for public space shaped by community input.
“With this new redesign, we are putting the ‘Park’ back into Park Avenue and upgrading Midtown Manhattan by providing residents and visitors alike with more usable public space,” said Mayor Mamdani. “Our city’s public spaces must better serve the public, and my administration has made this a priority through bold infrastructure investments and street redesigns. Working together with our partners across the City and State, we will ensure that New York City’s streets are the envy of the world.”
The concepts were developed through extensive community engagement, including a public survey, stakeholder interviews, workshops and meetings with community boards and local organizations.
The train shed rehabilitation is part of the MTA’s 2025–2029 capital plan. The agency is coordinating construction with nearby development projects in East Midtown.
(Excerpt) Read more at nyc.gov ...
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If there was a way to boot the UN out of its space along the East River, Mamdani could waste more billions turning it into a park too.
Last year’s History Chanell series of American mob leaders had one section with a slow moving film taken just before Guliani became mayor of NYC. It said high income people and those who leased expensive storefronts on Park Avenue had fled by a little under one million residents recently as they cited out of control crime and declining shopping spending as reasons. Mobs took over power as millionaires deserted NYC.
The documentary showed maybe 5 minutes of boarded up former high end stores and others with still shattered plate glass display windows all down the street. Then “stop, question and frisk” and prosecution of crime bosses led the recovery.
Trouble today is it’s not Guliani, it’s Mamdani.
Photo....
Before planting of rows of marijuana plants.
I thought you bastards were broke?
A workers paradise modeled after Havana.
Someone alert the squeegee bums. Because that would be an ideal location.
“New York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) Commissioner Mike Flynn today unveiled design concepts to put the ‘park’ back in Park Avenue”
Well, they have a huge budget surplus, so why not!
Do it d it do it. The warm embrace of collectivism will keep that pretty street well maintained and not at all turn in to an open sewer for the bums.
Have you seen the well-to-do
Up and down Park Avenue?
On that famous thoroughfare
With their noses in the air
High hats and Arrow collars
White spats and lots of dollars
Spending every dime for a wonderful time
It will be the perfect place for thousands of Mohammedans to kneel with their smelly butts in the air for afternoon Salah.
Still a sewer full of new yawk liberals
Give it the Scott Adams treatment
I’ went to NYC frequently from the ‘60,to the ‘80s. grass on Park looks familiar. What’s the date on the photo?
Ah yes...
Another worthless homeless encampment...
Should fit several thousand of the migrant invaders...
I love it...
THE DEMOCRATS BAIT 
THE DEMOCRATS REALITY
I see there will be plenty of nice green grass for the homeless tents and drug dealers.
Anything to make what’s already a traffic nightmare worse.
Totally!
“add pedestrian enhancements, seating and landscaping, “ people don’t want to sit on in the middle of a busy street, Central Park is 2 blocks away. What they want to do is make the street smaller to make the traffic unbearable so everyone will be forced into the filthy subway to get Covid. And a bike lane which is only used by Grubhub e-bikes. The contract to do this will go to Mamdani’s cousin’s consulting firm, like De Blasio’s wife who spent $500 million re-imagining the city’s sculpture which produced probably 2 new scupltures. First they said it was ok to steal...
This is a graft project. Discussing it on any other basis is an exercise in fantasy.
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