Mayor Bill de Blasio has heralded the programs — known separately as Open Streets, Open Restaurants and Open Storefronts — as a bright spot in an otherwise dark moment for the city. The New York Times asked people who have taken advantage of Open Streets what they want to see endure. The Times selected three streets that were part of the Open Streets and Open Restaurants programs and that represent possibilities applicable to all parts of the city. On many city streets, the median is “purely a kind of visual safety barrier and nothing else,” she said. “I love it,” Gold, 29, said about the Open Streets portion, which extends more than a mile from near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to Junction Boulevard.

Source: bd News24 December 26, 2020 12:22 UTC