It Only Takes a Few Well-Placed Bollards to Make a Midtown Block Safe From Vehicular Assault
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It would be a terrible mistake to replace clumsy short-term security theater with clumsy permanent security theater.
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De Blasio: Bollards Will Replace Janky Midtown Security Theater
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The mayor said the city will install more than 1,500 metal bollards to protect pedestrians at key locations beginning in March.
NYPD Is Making Midtown Sidewalks an Obstacle Course — Where’s de Blasio?
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The mayor controls the streets but is nowhere in sight as NYPD security theater puts the squeeze on Midtown foot traffic.
NYPD Keeps on Junking Up Midtown Streets With Fences and Barricades
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While peer cities like London carve out more car-free space on their busiest streets for walking, NYPD is busy dropping metal fencing and concrete barriers all over Midtown, obstructing paths for pedestrians and cyclists.
NYPD Security Theater Takes Manhattan
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Obtrusive new police barriers interfering with walking and biking paths are cropping up in Midtown and elsewhere. Do you feel safer, New York?
70 Year-Old Man Crushed, Killed by Security Truck Driver in Financial District
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At least two pedestrians were pinned by a pickup truck used as a movable security barrier on Broad Street near the New York Stock Exchange at approximately 1:30 p.m. this afternoon. One of the pedestrians, an unidentified 70 year-old man, has died. NY1 is reporting that the victim was a NYSE security guard who was eating […]