We had these zones already in the late seventies in Germany
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Also in Sweden.
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Absolutely ridiculous. Have these people ever left New York?
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I believe the NYT has it backwards. There were numerous cities with pedestrian plazas long before NYC "popularized" it. A NYC-centric view of the world.
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Y’all may want to travel abroad before you claim NY invented something European cities had in large numbers since the 1970s. Ppl *walk* there you know.
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Really? So you think NY adopting a major European strategy has influenced the world? Cmon guys...
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More like they have existed for millennia and the US is just catching on to the idea that streets are not just for cars. Crazy
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New York copies the European model and claims it invented it; not just China that steals IP
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Toronto did this 35 years ago.
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Around the other way, other cities had this well before New York. Americans are funny.
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We've had a mall for decades.
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Sorry, but this is not a uniquely New York initiative
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Some might say it's as old as cities themselves.
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The word plaza comes from Spain
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Europe has been doing this for decades.
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10 years...? We had them in Australia and suburbs much longer than that. This one in my area in 2007 was remodelled after so many years as a pedestrian mall.pic.twitter.com/vVrKiVF3Ew
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Lol, nyt has never left NY apparently.
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