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But to be truly urban by today's standards, Midtown East needs texture and variety, different scales and mixed uses, green spaces and reliable infrastructure.
WSJ: Not Visionary Enough | By Julie V. Iovine
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But some community leaders have expressed concern over whether Midtown East, already one of the densest areas in the city, could accommodate more office workers.
WSJ: Midtown East Rezoning Proposal Unveiled
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In 1982 rezoning to move development west to Times Square worked all too well, significantly tamping down growth in Midtown East, now at a pitiable 0.06% over the past decade.
WSJ: Not Visionary Enough | By Julie V. Iovine
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The Department of City Planning report even cites conversion to hotels and condos as one of the drags on the ability of Midtown East to compete with the likes of Shanghai and Hong Kong.
WSJ: Not Visionary Enough | By Julie V. Iovine
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New Yorkers shouldering their way through Grand Central Terminal's trench-coated crowds, braving the high-heel-grabbing grates along Lexington Avenue or coursing the taxi slalom around the Met Life and Helmsley buildings may not be following the hotly contested plans for rezoning Midtown East.
WSJ: Not Visionary Enough | By Julie V. Iovine
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The next wave of 40 stations to come online by the first quarter of 2014 will be heavily used stops in Midtown East and Queens, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, while the service is expected to be rolled out to the remaining stations by 2017.
WSJ: Subway Wireless Options Increase
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The main shopping is on, and just off, Madison Ave, from Midtown up to about East 75th Street.
BBC: Last minute holiday shopping in the Big Apple
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They take the elephants off, and they walk them through the Queens Midtown Tunnel underneath the East River, along 34th Street to Madison Square Garden.
NPR: When the Elephants March in Manhattan
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The exhibit is to open next year at the museum in the Long Island City neighborhood, across the East River from midtown Manhattan.
WSJ: Muppets creator's items head to NYC museum
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Well-funded shoppers head to Midtown's Fifth Ave and the Upper East Side's Madison Ave.
BBC: Last minute holiday shopping in the Big Apple
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An MTA spokesman said late Monday night that water had reached into all five subway tubes that stretch under the East River between Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn and the Steinway tube between Midtown and Queens.
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