Comments on: Meeting Tonight on Beseiged Plan to Calm NYU Campus

By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:45:12 +0000

The City actually pedestrianized Washington Place for a time in the early 1990s, after a car got out of control and plowed into a crowd of people on the east side of Washington Square Park, but the community NYU-haters turned it back because useless pavement and bleak streetscapes are so great for everyone.

By: jmc

jmc — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:17:22 +0000

city's

By: jmc

jmc — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:45:26 +0000

If we can get the cities powerful institutions interested in pedestrianization, that's a great thing.

By: sean

sean — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:11:41 +0000

We should be very cautious about siding with NYU on stuff like this - if they had their say, they'd privatize the entire area. But pedestrianizing Washington Place (and why not Waverly?) east of the park would be great - I mean, it's already de facto pedestrianized during weekdays anyway.

By: Gargamel Tralfaz

Gargamel Tralfaz — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:45:14 +0000

Great, people already mobilizing to oppose whatever the plan is. Sounds like a plan!