Quote Originally Posted by Knightmessenger View Post
this would be tremendous because as a kid, riding on the People Mover between Grand Circus and Broadway, every building was vacant and derelict.
On the final day of Youmacon, it occurred to me that pretty soon, everything could be occupied.

I mean what a different view of essentially the same stuff on the same path.
There are some really interesting videos in the People Mover thread of the loop in the late 80s. The stretch from Cadillac Center to Times Square looks AWFUL - nothing on the Crowley/Kerns site, vacant Hudson's, almost nothing occupied on Library or Broadway, no Opera House, and almost nothing occupied on Grand Circus.

We've made huge strides, and if everything planned in that part of town comes to fruition [[Hudson's site, Metropolitan, Wurlitzer, Statler site), that stretch will be a fully functioning big city neighborhood again.