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The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade might be taking a dramatic turn next year...down Sixth Avenue. For the first time in the parade's 84-year history, the city is considering redirecting it past Broadway and over to Sixth when it arrives at Columbus Circle. The mayor says that the Department of Transportation said a working group has been assembled to discuss the matter and it will be making recommendations soon.
Businesses throughout Time Square are not surprisingly unhappy with the possible move. Many say that the parade is the one of their biggest days of the year and the additional television exposure they get is invaluable. Some hotels along the parade's route say that they are booked up to a year in advance. A manager of the Millennium Broadway said, “It's kind of shocking that it might move. We would no longer be the desirable location.”
Proponents for both avenues claim that the other is too narrow for the parade's massive balloons. One of the reasons for the move away from Broadway is because there will be even less space due to the city's plan to convert portions of it to a pedestrian mall in May. There has also been extra concern about balloon safety with a relatively new Safety Protocol after potentially dangerous accidents had occurred.
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Another tough decision that Mayor Mikey has to make.
Why does this mayor deserve a third term when his previous two have been nothing but him creating problems so he will have something to solve?
Yet another example of the arrogance and stupidity of DOT Diktator Sadik-Khan imposing her hippy view of trafic on neighborhoods without first going to the people who actually have a stake there and getting their opinion.
It is happening now in Times Square, as it has happened in:
Chinatown http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_293/boardbacks.html
Chelsea http://chelseanow.com/CN_124/8th.html
Little Italy http://www.thevillager.com/villager_290/thenewgrand.html
SoHo http://sohopolitics.blogspot.com/2008/11/mean-streets-of-soho.html
The Meat Market http://www.thevillager.com/villager_263/meatmarket.html
Lower Manhattan http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_296/downtownersdebate.html
TriBeCa http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_294/citytells.html
Not to mention the parents on West 92nd Street or the residents of Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn.
Insiders in City Agencies and BIDs also complain off the record of her autocracy and arrogance, bulldozing her silly projects without the courtesy of a heads-up.
This is not the complaints of a few people. This is wholesale repudiation by untold numbers of residents and business of Sadik-Khan's abuse of power, trying to turn the Greatest City in the World into Portland. She is Robert Moses in a skirt.
Bloomberg: Drop this Spandex Nazi.
whatever happens, let's just be sure the balloons don't touch one another. school officials in connecticut will be very unhappy.
Leave the parade at it's current location.
That stretch of 6th Avenue is suited for Office-Type Weekday Business, Broadway is centered around the commercial 24/7 business. The city along with countless businesses would take a serve financial hit.