We like to walk around cities and apparently modern travelers agree with us because they’ve voted Copenhagen’s Stroget one of the 7 urban wonders of the world. That’s why we love New York’s new High Line and the pedestrianization of Herald and Times squares.
Will Manhattan become mostly car-free? That would be a dream that’s unlikely to ever come true, but what is already one of the world’s best walking cities will only benefit from giving away space for pedestrians and reducing the chaotic traffic from its most popular commercial areas. Imagine a pedestrians-only SoHo?…
The plan was decided by mayor Bloomberg who says this is a way to change the way the city thinks its streets. It’s been reported that it is only an experiment that will last until the end of this year, but could become permanent. Judging from the crowds enjoying the car-free streets, as illustrated on the photo below, we can predict it will in fact become permanent and expand to other areas in the city.
As for the High Line, that’s a former elevated railroad that reopened last June as a “greenway.” It goes from the Meatpacking District to 20th Street, but will eventually go all the way to Midtown, to 30th Street. In 2012, the entrance to the High Line on Gansevoort Street will have a new building for the Whitney Museum which will be designed by architect Renzo Piano.

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