Is New York finally — maybe — groping its way to giving the millions of people who descend upon Midtown for the holidays a reasonably pleasant experience?
Raise a glass of eggnog to Mayor Adams and his transportation department for pulling off a major success Sunday — “The Gift of Fifth” event on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, which can point the way toward a more livable Midtown.
Through 2019, New York’s core holiday experience — the Rockefeller Christmas tree and its environs — was careening toward misery.
It wasn’t the record number of tourists — nearly 67 million that year — but the fact the city had no idea what to do with them.
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here.
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