Pastoral only for Pedestrians and Bicycles

“Like all public space, our parks have a lot of demands put on them,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a written statement. “But traffic shouldn’t be one of them. Our city needs places where kids can run around safely, where people can jog or go for a walk after a long day of work and not have cars racing by five feet away.”
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Syed Haroon, 60, a cabdriver who estimated that he had used the park cutaways a minimum of 5,720 times in his 22 years on the job. “When we go through the park we feel very fresh.” Closing it, he said, will be a blow to cabdrivers’ psyches.

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