Driving In Times Square | NY City Sights

Driving In Times Square | NY City Sights

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The Times Square Experiment

Remember back in late May 2009, when seemingly overnight the North/Southbound streets in Times Square were suddenly turned into pedestrian lounge-rooms? The streets were painted green and filled with plastic chairs and tables.

The results are in, and those newer metal chairs and tables are going to stay plus get an upgrade to permanent furniture.

Times Square - before new traffic pattern

Times Square - before new traffic pattern


Times Square's pedestrian area

Times Square's pedestrian area

It’s all part of the Green Light for Midtown project spearheaded by Mayor Bloomberg and implemented by the NYC DOT*, where the goals are to make the NYC streets safer and to reduce NYC traffic and congestion. For Times Square, DOT was looking to improve the NYC traffic flow on 6th & 7th Avenues and make Broadway safer for pedestrians and drivers. If you’ve been through that area, you’ve seen the new pedestrian spaces on Broadway from 42nd – 47th Streets, and also on 33rd – 35th Streets.

How do we know if it worked? DOT used GPS units in taxis to compare travel times in fall 2008 against fall 2009 and found that: [...] Read the rest of this post »

New Year’s Eve Parking NYC 2009

If you’re one of the millions of people coming to NYC for New Year’s Eve this year, and you’re brave enough to drive into the city, we can help you find parking.

Tip 1 — Arrive early on December 31st, or even on December 30th. Most of the streets around Timew Square will start closing on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve.

Free parking does exist. If you want to park on the street, read the signs. Most streets have free parking after 7pm, but around Times Square these areas will have No Parking from Thursday, December 31st at 12:00 a.m. until 1:00 a.m. on Friday, January 1st:
All cross-town streets from 33rd to 59th Street between 6th and 8th Avenue;
West side of 5th Avenue, from 37th to 52nd Streets;
West side of 6th Avenue, from 34th to 59th Streets;
East side of 6th Avenue, from 37th to 52nd Streets;
East side of 8th Avenue from 34th to 57th Streets; [...] Read the rest of this post »

Driving in Times Square

A few weeks ago Broadway was closed to vehicle traffic from 47th to 42nd Streets, and all the Broadway traffic was diverted to 7th Avenue. I didn’t quite understand how it all works, so I went over and took some photos to show you.

From 47th - 42nd Streets on 7th Avenue, here’s the deal:

1) You can drive cross-town on all streets from 47th to 42nd Street, and you can get onto 7th Avenue from any of these cross-town streets.

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