What’s Wrong With Wall Street? Businesses Want ‘Sense of Place’
- Neighborhood group calls stock-exchange district ‘unsightly’
- Offers $30 million of ideas; easy walking, Spider-Man lighting
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Curbless streets, better lighting and fewer “no-go’s,” those geometric boulders scattered around the New York Stock Exchange to thwart truck bombers. Those are among the suggestions in a study to make the historic locale more inviting.
The 83-page study is an effort by the Alliance for Downtown New York, a neighborhood business group, to improve the eight-block district’s “ill-fitting and unsightly streetscape elements,” responsible for its having “no sense of place.”