Restaurant Row: Cars Need to Go - Streetsblog New York City
Briefly

Restaurant Row, located on W. 46th Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues, is a historic culinary hub with over 30 restaurants. The general manager of Sicily Osteria, Angelo Nasti, advocates for the street to be pedestrianized. He believes that customers predominantly arrive on foot or via public transport. The current car presence detracts from the outdoor dining experience, filled with noise and pollution. Open Streets already show enhanced business viability while the introduction of congestion pricing provides further reasoning to ban cars in the area. This change could help preserve Restaurant Row for generations to come.
"Pretty much all our customers walk here or come by public transportation," he noted.
Restaurant Row - technically W. 46th Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues - offers more than a century of culinary history within a single city block.
Those businesses deserve to thrive another 100 years, and pedestrianizing the street can help make that possible.
We already know Open Streets are better for business than car-sewer streets.
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