New York's aging Park Avenue will be getting a face-lift, like any grand dame, as the city unveiled a master plan to transform the iconic Manhattan thoroughfare - which is expected to take two decades. The plan, devised by the city’s Department of Transportation, will see a portion of the avenue return to its former glory not seen for nearly a century - a tree-lined, grass-covered promenade that, as its name suggests, served as an actual park that pedestrians could walk through as they navigated the bustling boulevard.Today, little remains of the street's scenic former self, aside from the numerous fine, old buildings from a long-forgotten age that line the three lanes on either side of the bloom-filled median. And, of course, its name.
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