Lots of architects, designers, and engineers like to talk about how Manhattan and New York City at large should overhauled in one way or another.

There are a litany of wacky plans for NYC that never happened, like filling in the East River and expanding Manhattan by 50 miles, or that time they wanted to turn Broadway into a giant moving sidewalk in 1872, retro-Jetsons style. 

But now Wired has produced a video outlying what mistakes NYC has made in its lifetime as a metro entity. 

Yes, demolishing the old Penn Station is on the list. But so is Central Park. They wish there was never a Central Park. What, what, what?

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These architects think the City would do better without cars too, and well, they might be right about that. Check it out, and let us know what do you think: are these guys out-of-touch or onto something big here?


https://youtu.be/KX7qI6OqOm4


Did You Know Broadway Almost Became a Huge Moving Sidewalk Way Back in 1872? 

[via Wired]

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