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MAYOR BLOOMBERG, NEW YORKERS,

AND TIMES SQUARE BUSINESSES AND CONSTITUENTS DECLARE "GREEN LIGHT FOR MIDTOWN"A SUCCESS

February 11, 2010

Mayor Bloomberg declares Broadway pedestrian plazas in Times and Herald Squares

will be made permanent

Research commissioned by the Times Square Alliance finds that new plazas are favored by a majority of New Yorkers, Tri-State residents, local employees, property owners, store managers, theater-goers, and business executives

RESEARCH AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD:

Click here for a summary of opinion surveys commissioned by the Times Square Alliance in fall 2009.

Click here for results from opinion surveys conducted by StrategyOne of New Yorkers, tri-state residents, Times Square area employees, store managers, and neighborhood property owners and business executives. (Click here for raw data.)

Click here for results from surveys of Broadway theater-goers conducted by Philip Habib & Associates, Inc.

The Broadway pedestrian plazas have helped relieve pressure from sidewalks that serve 364,000 pedestrians every day, and have provided new spaces tor visitors to the area to stop and take in the sights of Times Square.

For more information, visit the NYC Department of Transportation, or click here (PDF) of the Green Light for Midtown Evaluation Report.

For information about the Mayor's announcement, click here.

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