{"id":369868,"date":"2026-10-10T17:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T17:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369868\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T17:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T17:22:15","slug":"manhattan-sideways-revisited-a-walk-along-51st-street-reveals-many-contrasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369868\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Sideways Revisited \u2014 A Walk Along 51st Street Reveals Many Contrasts"},"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=\"965\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Sideways-revisited-51st_4920-copy.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-161665\"\/>A neon cross hangs above St Paul\u2019s House on W51st Street between 8th and 9th Avenues. Photo: Sophia Michelen<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Betsy first walked <a href=\"https:\/\/sideways.nyc\/posts\/3s0g8kiyDfNoeaDpBdNxfG\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">51st Street<\/a> more than a decade ago, she discovered quiet neighborhood enclaves, celebrated restaurants and cultural institutions tucked between Midtown\u2019s increasingly imposing towers.\u00a0<\/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":369869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63,123196],"class_list":["post-369868","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\/369868","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=369868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}