The city cut the ribbon Sunday on a brand-new, limited-time Open Streets program on Fifth Avenue in Midtown — freeing up some of New York's most festive locales to pedestrians and closing them to cars for three December weekends during the holiday season.
Opening up Fifth Avenue builds upon previous efforts to pedestrianize the area around Rockefeller Center and its famous Christmas tree for the holiday season. At the ribbon cutting, beaming officials declared there’s no better way to experience the holidays than walking down the glittering, festive thoroughfare.
The city will place moveable barriers on both sides of Fifth Avenue outside of Sunday soiree hours, on weekday afternoons and weekend mornings, to create more sidewalk space and shepherd high volumes of pedestrian traffic to the tree and other holiday entertainment. A similar treatment will be applied on Sixth Avenue, with one lane of traffic repurposed between 48th and 52nd streets. Right turns from Fifth onto the westbound 47th, 49th, and 51st streets will be prohibited during those times.
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