By Ben Fractenberg
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
UPPER WEST SIDE — The area in front of Lincoln Center could go the way of Times Square and Herald Square and get a car-free pedestrian plaza.
Local groups are pushing to close off traffic past Dante Park, a triangular park at the intersection of Broadway and Columbus Avenue, by 2013, according to the West Side Spirit. The park sits across the street from Lincoln Center between 63rd and 64th streets.
“It’s worth looking at,” Lincoln Square Business Improvement District president Monica Blum told the Spirit. “The community loves it. Every chair and table is taken in that little park.”
The bid is in response to a Department of Transportation request for proposals for neighborhood nonprofits to generate plans for plazas throughout the city, with the goal of ensuring “that all New Yorkers live within a 10-minute walk of quality open space,” the DOT website states.
The submission deadline for the plaza program is June 30.
