New renderings for a revamped Park Avenue corridor were released by the DOT Wednesday, showing the bustling thoroughfare reimagined as more pedestrian-friendly.
Two versions of a plan for an 11-block stretch of the busy boulevard — spanning from East 46th to East 57th streets — depict expanded medians, wider sidewalks and an abundance of greenery.
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“Park Ave. got its name because a century ago it had a literal park in the median,” City Comptroller Mark Levine wrote in a post to X Wednesday, posting a vintage photo of Park Avenue before its sprawling medians were thinned out for thru-traffic.
“Now at last, the park is coming back,” he wrote.
The redesign will feature cultural programming, benches and potentially a bike lane.
The project was made possible as a result of the MTA’s reconstruction of the Grand Central Terminal train shed, a 100-year-old structure that sits directly below the Park Avenue stretch.
The street redesign will take place in tandem with required repairs to the century-old shed.
The city released two final designs that New Yorkers are invited to vote on via an online survey.