Eyes on the Street: Gansevoort Plaza Open for Business (Updated)
The view of Gansevoort Plaza looking west.
Less than a month ago, the Meatpacking District’s Gansevoort Plaza was a chaotic free-for-all for vehicles. Today it sports a large pedestrian space lined with planters and bollards. The Open Planning Project’s Lily Bernheimer snapped these photos showing the new seating and street furniture in action, two weeks after capturing the construction phase. In terms of getting a good bang for the livable streets buck, this project seems like a real winner — a quick and inexpensive reallocation of space.
UPDATE: DOT says this phase of the project cost about $90,000, plus labor. Construction took three weeks (they’re laying down crosswalks and removing the construction barrels tonight). Also, we should note, while the implementation went by in a flash, an extensive community process led up to this point, going back to meetings held in 2005 between Project for Public Spaces and local businesses and residents.
More pictures after the jump.
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