{"id":327502,"date":"2026-08-22T20:16:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327502\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T20:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:16:53","slug":"manhattan-sideways-revisited-retracing-47th-street-a-decade-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327502\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Sideways Revisited \u2014 Retracing 47th Street a Decade Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-grad-6-gradient-background has-background wp-block-paragraph\">A decade ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/sideways.nyc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manhattan Sideways<\/a> founder Betsy Bober Polivy walked more than 100 Manhattan streets from east to west. Now, W42ST is retracing her steps.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1250\" height=\"938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Times-Square_6916.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-155945\"\/>The TKTS red steps in Times Square, complete with hot dog art. Photo: Sophia Michelen<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Betsy first walked <a href=\"https:\/\/sideways.nyc\/posts\/3s0g8qWIsqpltOP7ZJw4tO\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">47th Street<\/a> more than a decade ago, she discovered hidden cultural institutions, jewelers whose businesses ran on handshakes, neighborhood shops and Broadway history. Much has changed since then, but what surprised me most wasn\u2019t how different the street feels \u2014 it was how many times it encouraged me to stop.<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to manage your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A decade ago, Manhattan Sideways founder Betsy Bober Polivy walked more than 100 Manhattan streets from east to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63,123196],"class_list":["post-327502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sidewaysrevisited"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}