CityGuy

Last month, when the department presented the plan to shut down Prince St. to Manhattan Community Boards Traffic and Transportation Committee, some people let the agency know as much. The whole room erupted in boos & turned riotous.

The pedestrian counts in that area for NYC life survey showed number of peds is astounding good call by DOT!!

latenite77

well as a local resident who prefers mimes over mustangs, peds over pintos, el mariachis over el caminos and PYTs over SUVs, I'll be at the meeting on the 11th making damn sure that a few months from now people know it as "the livable street formerly known as Prince"

bigapple

It always amazes me how people from outside our neighborhood (particularly people from other boroughs ) always think they should be able to dictate what happens in Soho. If its not the illegal street vendors who think they should be able to sell their crap on the side walks every weekend its the DOT suggesting that people who live along Prince St can't take deliveries on the weekend or get into a cab in front of their apartment.

I'm in favor of reducing the congestion in Soho. But come up with an idea that doesn't punish the residents such as (i) extending the banning of parking from the weekdays to the weekend, (ii) banning all tour busses and (iii) putting on east river tolls to eliminate the god awful mess on Broome

PaullyInNYC

i dont mind it at all! Sunday are busy shopping days over the summer as no one has much to do. tourists will stil make their way in and i dont see this one day affecting the locals at all. if anything it will more pleasant to walk around with out the traffic.