“My mission has always been to advocate for the small businesses, and there has never been a time that they needed our support more than now.” “I decided at the beginning of the pandemic that I had to push and complete this book,” says Betsy. Now Betsy has produced a coffee table book - Walking Manhattan Sideways - Side Street Businesses That Have Stood the Test of Time. Many say I’ve got to explore my own neighborhood more.” Started on a whim, she soon realized the reach her project could have and its potential to invigorate smaller businesses by broadening people’s horizons in even their most immediate locale.īetsy says, “Because people tend to take the same route each day - be it walking, riding the subway, or hopping on a bus - New Yorkers have no idea what is one block away. It was this that inspired Betsy to begin her project, Manhattan Sideways - the roads less traveled. In contrast, the treasures of its side streets, just footsteps away, remain largely undiscovered.Īllen Dickon, manager of McKinney Welding Supply on W52nd Street between 11/12th Ave. However, while the original grid system envisioned the streets as vital thoroughfares leading to the riverside, it is instead the avenues that are the focus of commerce. Manhattan’s grid system is iconic, a show of far-reaching forethought and elaborate city planning rarely seen since Roman times. At that point, her “crazy idea to walk the entire original Manhattan grid - from 1st Street to 155th” had reached 53rd Street. We featured Betsy Bober Polivy and Manhattan Sideways six years ago, in the first issue of W42ST magazine.
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