It was also announced that the alley behind the club, officially known as "Extra Place," would be turned into a pedestrian mall.

In the late 60's, a proposal to turn the whole bow tie, from 32d Street to 35th, into a pedestrian mall met with ridicule.

Before them stretched several long blocks of a street that had been turned into a pedestrian mall.

Queen Street was the central roadway, that was turned into a pedestrian mall.

Companies later tried to turn it into a mall.

Finally, a big developer bought the entire intersection and turned it into a drive-through mall.

"This city's turning into a mall, with room only for Starbucks and Disney," he complained.

Grumblings are heard about lower Broadway turning into a mall for chain stores.

In the late 70's, the city turned the street into a nine-block pedestrian mall, opening it only to buses.

In recent years, it has suffered a sharp decline, turning into a dead mall.