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A group of Jackson Heights residents claim to be casualties in the city’s war on cars.

Open Streets closes 26 blocks of 34th Avenue to vehicles every day, and has for more than 18 months.

The city initiative with the Orwellian name “may look good on paper, but it’s dangerous, it’s dangerous for everyone,” said lifelong Jackson Heights resident Kenneth Weiss, who spoke with a canister of oxygen at his side, plastic tubes in his nose and hands resting on a walking cane.

“This program has transformed an ordinary block in Queens into one of the most vibrant, joyful places in the entire city,” Department of Transportation spokesperson Seth Stein told The Post.  

But Weiss, 62, and other members of a group called 34 Open Streets Resisters United, say the program endangers lives, limits access by first responders, and savages the livability of their quiet street with tree-lined median and dignified brick apartment buildings.

It is not the paved road that is needed to be empty, it the green, the trees, the quality of life that is been destroyed in NYC for the Towers and the cash the politicians are after.  Just a thought.