Images & Maps
Computer Images and Photomontages
The very best solution to the currently overcrowded sidewalks is a vastly improved pedestrian environment, coupled with a free-flowing transitway. The vitality and intensity of New York derives in large part from its very human scale of circulation and activity.
People from all over the country, not to mention the world, come here to experience this and are often amazed at how much they like it. We believe this intensity should be encouraged and enhanced. The act of taking the cars out of 42nd Street would, in effect, be converting the scale of the street from the automotive, back down to human scale, and would open up tremendous new possibilities for the complete redesign of the street.
Maps
The yellow and orange circles in these maps represent a 700-foot radius of immediate impact of each station.
Original intention for the #7 subway extension — still unable to serve the waterfronts or other areas in Far West and Far East Midtown.
The #7 subway extension — with only one station, at 11th Avenue and 33rd Street, since an intermediate station at 10th Ave. is unaffordable.
