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VANDERBILT CLOSING TO JUGGLE ROADWAYS

LOIS WEISS

Friday, July 20, 2012 - While the President hasn’t done it, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has managed to declare war on Pakistan. Pakistan owns the Roosevelt hotel which is in the middle of the new anti- car zone being promoted by the Mayor and Dept. of Transportation Commish Janette Sadik-kahn. The commissioner once confessed to us she actually has a driver’s license, but doesn’t drive unless she is “leaving town.” That must be why she concocted this new plan to seal off Vanderbilt Ave. in Midtown. Except during rush hours, the sidewalks along this short Avenue are virtually pedestrian free because it is really a dark and cold north south running service alley. There is lots of shade from the surrounding tall buildings that include the Met Life Building. If it were sealed to traffic there would be no other way to get to either the Yale Club or 52 Vanderbilt, and no way to get to 335 Madison Ave.’s or the Roosevelt Hotel’s loading docks. While Mayor Bloomberg now says the side streets won’t be closed, there would still be no way to get onto E. 43rd St. between Vanderbilt and Madison Ave. unless Bloomberg leaves the southernmost part of Vanderbilt open between E. 43rd and E. 42nd Sts. A driver coming south on Park Ave. would also have to go west across 47th St. to Fifth Ave., make a left turn and then go all the way back to Vanderbilt if trying to get to E. 46th St. or E. 44th St. Because it is blocked by Grand Central Terminal E. 44th Street would also have to become a two way street but with no way to turn around when it dead ends on Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt’s Grand Central taxi drop off at W. 43rd St. is also way too low for trucks to use as a turn around. Kevin Croke, the director of sales and marketing at The Roosevelt Hotel, addressed the Vanderbilt Ave. re-zoning project saying, "The Management Team of the Roosevelt Hotel understands the rationale of creating more open space in the congested commercial area around Grand Central and the Bloomberg administration's goal for developers to build more modern office towers in the area. We are in favor of any project aiming to propel the local business community and if a pedestrian walk way is created on Vanderbilt Avenue, The Roosevelt Hotel will prepare to alter business operations as the avenue currently acts as the hotel's service entrance for deliveries and as a thoroughfare for transportation of hotel guests." Milstein Properties, owners of 335 Madison haven’t been as accommodating and have complained bitterly about the proposed closing as it would affect all their deliveries.

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