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Pack up these pedestrian playpens

Times Square, Downtown Crossing need vehicular traffic to thrive

By Sam Allis
Globe Columnist / May 31, 2009

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New Yorkers woke up last Sunday to a Memorial Day surprise. Times Square, the epicenter of the known universe, was closed to vehicular traffic. For an early bird out that morning for coffee and the papers, it must have looked like Mongolia. (Full article: 923 words)

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