"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
actually, according to the article in the New York Times, it's not permanent (yet). it's for now only going to be through the end of the year; if it works, then they'll make it permanent.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
I'm glad its just experimental. I'm not too sure how well it will work. At the very least it should lighten up the pedestrian traffic so times sq would be easier to walk through.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
I never thought car traffic was a problem. Just the amount of people, but that's sort of what you sign-up for when you go to that area. Plus, I like to think that everyone there is there to see a show, so that makes me happy.
I, personally, find foot traffic to be at its worst in front of the Marquis. You have the photographers offering to take your picture, people passing out flyers for whatever show is in the theatre, and the musicians that set up shop on the corner. I don't mind the music but they don't choose a great spot. People stop to watch them and clog up the curb.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
this is stupid. i already walk in the street whenever i feel like it. i don't need Bloomberg giving me permission. now he's going to encourage all the stupid tourists, who already don't know how to walk on a sidewalk, to spill their corn fed cluelessness into the street. and how the hell am i supposed to get to the theater in my last minute cab when i'm running late as usual? bloomberg should be impeached! or at least forced to sit through The Little Mermaid at least once a week.
It's Mayor Bloomberg's attempt at backdoor congestion pricing.
Create more congestion so he can say "Look, we need congestion pricing".
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
I think there's plenty of places to sit as it is. But when it's like 30 degrees outside and the its windy, no body is going to want to sit on the benches.
If Bloomberg wants it, it means he's making money off it and that it will be a bad idea for pretty much everybody else.
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I think it's a great idea. Those crowded masses in front of the Marquis and elsewhere will be able to move out into the street areas. It should make moving North and South (by foot) much easier.