A prime holiday shopping stretch in the city — Fifth Avenue between 48th and 57th streets — went “car-free” for the first of the days Sunday, outraging cabbies while delighting pedestri…
The streets around Rockefeller Center -- West 49th and West 50th -- will be car-free from 11 a.m. to midnight seven days a week for the rest of the season.The closure was in effect from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday and is also on tap for the next two Sundays at the same time."She doesn't like sitting still, but she likes walking around outside without cars around," dog owner said of her pooch.
“We wanted to see the decorations and to be able to walk down the middle of Fifth avenue. When else do you get to do that? Never, right?” Ellen said. “I do wish there was more Christmas decorations. I’m like, if we’re going to do this, let’s go really big and [do] like [a] Christmas explosion, or just a holiday decoration explosion, in general.”Kwabena, a taxi driver for 15 years, said the new policy was “causing problems” for him and his driver colleagues who typically pick up passengers among the holiday shoppers walking along Fifth Avenue.
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