Eric Adams’ Fifth Avenue Promenade Shows Promise — but It’s a Long Way from Making Midtown Xmas-Tourist-Friendly

Ghost-town Midtown is a thing of the past. Christmas tourists are back, clogging up the streets and sidewalks. But New York has had years to make a more pleasant environment for our hordes of visitors on foot — and is still making only baby-step progress. 

Baby-step progress is better than none. So Mayor Eric Adams gets two cheers — OK, even 2½ — for giving walkers more room in Midtown this holiday season.

He’s continued the de Blasio-era policy of closing 49th and 50th Streets around Rockefeller Center to car and truck traffic through early January. And he’s added his own new protocol: closing Fifth Avenue to traffic altogether on three December Sundays, to create a pedestrian promenade.

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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here.

This piece originally appeared in New York Post