The once iconic street of Manhattan has become the victim of locked wooden fencing masking huge empty spaces.
Some of these spaces were beautiful apartment buildings. It may have been 217 Park Avenue where many theater people lived. It was a beautiful building that is now torn down and empty.
However, why not turn the empty spaces into portable parks?
When a building is torn down, it should be the obligation of the builder, until he rebuilds in that space to immediately install a portable park.
All it would require is a certain number of yards of fake grass, a few tables and chairs and umbrellas, some potted trees and maybe some heating lamps in the winter.
As different spaces open up due to construction or demolition the parks would move, which is why they should be called ‘portable parks’.