“Prospect Park went permanently car-free at the beginning of 2018, and now, Central Park is following suit,” reports Amy Plitt for Curbed New York. “Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today that cars will be banned from roads in Central Park below 72nd Street; his administration had previously enacted a ban on cars on park roads above 72nd Street.” “‘Our parks are for people, not cars,’ De Blasio said in a statement. ‘For more than a century, cars have turned parts of the world’s most iconic park into a highway. Today we take it back. We are prioritizing the safety and the health of the millions of parents, children and visitors who flock to Central Park.…'” “De Blasio teased the news in a tweet last night, but sources confirmed to the New York Daily News that the change is coming; the timing, right before Earth Day, couldn’t be better.…” “The park is also in the midst of a large-scale restoration project that it says is intended to ‘restore and preserve Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux’s historic vision for the extraordinary landscape of the Park.'”
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that cars will be banned from roads in Central Park below 72nd Street; his administration had previously enacted a ban on cars on park roads above 72nd Street. (Image credit: Shutterstock.com via Curbed New York / Vox Media, Inc.)
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that cars will be banned from roads in Central Park below 72nd Street; his administration had previously enacted a ban on cars on park roads above 72nd Street. (Image credit: Shutterstock.com via Curbed New York / Vox Media, Inc.)
