NYT event listing for Children's Museum, Nov 2003

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

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The new West Street Promenade looking south.

Rebuilding West Street as a tree-lined promenade will allow it to link the World Trade Center site physically and visually to the southern tip of Manhattan, Ellis Island, and the Statue of Liberty, The promenade will incorporate elements such as:

• a wider sidewalk along the east edge of the highway, which will improve pedestrian circula­ tion, provide a buffer from traffic, and provide a more attractive edge to the neighborhood east of the highway and south of Liberty Street, • realignment of portions of the roadway to allow for the creation of new public open space and green spaces, • increased landscaping of the open space that will preserve or incorporate the community gardens and green spaces that already exist within the right-of-way, • decorative pavements, plantings, lighting, street furniture and other streetscape enhance­ ments and pedestrian amenities, • crosswalks modified to improve pedestrian connectivity and safety, both across and along the highway, ■ the introduction of pedestrian bridges, and • the final link of the Hudson River bikeway, which will run continuously all the way from 59th Street to Battery Park.

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