Unbelievable...

 

 

 

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/08/cars_a_scourge.php

 

I couldn't have put it better myself...unbelievable.

Forgive my ignorance, but does the first picture suggest the origin of "Park" avenue?

I assumed the same thing.

Park Avenue carries railroad tracks outbound from Grand Central and was essentially a "park" between 34th and 40th Street.  I'm sure in the 20's or 30's, it was opened up for auto-traffic.

WOW

 

That's such a huge departure.

History of Park Avenue (AKA Fourth Avenue)

www.forgotten-ny.com/streetnecrology/AveA/declassified.html

Didn't you say something earlier today about making us go out to a different site to reading something?

Park Avenue is still an appropriate name, it's just a car park now.