For several years on 53rd Street and Park Avenue, the entire block has been trashed. A perfectly beautiful apartment building was torn down, presumably to be replaced by something. However, the years have passed and it has been replaced by nothing.
It is incomprehensible that the city does not at least turn this empty eyesore on Park Avenue into a park space. That’s not so expensive to do and the reward is tremendous for the city and for the people living in the neighborhood.
The city government should make it a requirement of any building contractor who creates vacant space to fill that space with gardens or a park if they are not immediately building a new building. Instead of creating more eyesores for the city, they would be creating more green and garden space.