Dozens of New Yorkers packed into a room at Javits Center on Tuesday to demand that the proposed redesign of the Hudson River Greenway seize adjacent space currently devoted to cars in order to widen the crowded bike and pedestrian path.
“The chorus was aligned” in wanting a wider greenway and fewer conflicts between pedestrians, cyclists and drivers, said Jeffrey LeFrancois, executive director of the Meatpacking District BID, who attended the meeting hosted by the state Department of Transportation, which owns and maintains the greenway and adjacent six-lane road.
Route 9A, still known as the West Side Highway decades after an elevated highway structure on the route was taken down, functions as a highway with traffic lights for drivers — creating a dangerous separation between Manhattan and its waterfront…