Everyone Wants to Fix 14th Street
By: Christopher Bonanos | Published: 2025-07-29 12:00:00 | Source: www.curbed.com
The potential 14th Street of the future, as seen in a rendering from the Union Square Partnership’s 2021 vision plan.
Photo: Marvel/Courtesy of Union Square Partnership
“This is almost obvious,” Julie Stein says, gesturing down the sidewalk toward Fourth Avenue. Stein is the executive director of the Union Square Partnership, the business-improvement district, or BID, covering the area around East 14th Street. It’s hopping today around Union Square, with the customary light chaos of street vendors and packs of NYU kids getting coffee. Up ahead of us, the asphalt is brightly painted with a mural-ish artwork, renewed…
