https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7kbemb/nyc-says-it-will-take-20-years-to-restore-park-avenue-to-its-former-glory

Once upon a time, Manhattan’s Park Avenue was a splendid promenade so named because it was an actual park—what we would now call a “linear park”—down the middle of a wide boulevard. It was a reasonably pleasant place to walk. Not so for the current Park Avenue, which was widened to accommodate more and faster cars, turning the median into little more than a decoration to an otherwise horrid road.

The good news is the city finally has plans to restore 11 blocks of Park Avenue north of Grand Central to a semblance of its former glory, Bloomberg reports, expanding the median from a useless 20 feet to a potentially-rejuvenating 48 feet. That redesigned street could include bike paths, walking paths, and generally more space for things other than cars or pretty things for people in cars to look at as they drive by.