In December 2022, New York City experimented with a temporary open street on Sundays on the iconic Fifth Avenue, to make more room for holiday shoppers. It marked the first time in half a century ...

So he moved into a $2,700, fifth-floor walk-up on the other side of Manhattan in Hell’s Kitchen. It does not have laundry, but he’s come to enjoy biking to work and exercising at a gym there ...

The open street initiative has started to change that. For the past five years, a 1.3-mile stretch of 34th Avenue, now known as Paseo Park, has been closed to cars during daytime hours.

In the videos Mr. Nuvan shares with his 2.6 million followers on TikTok and 865,000 on Instagram, he is often shown walking down a street in New York — or, less often, Haiti, Colombia or Jamaica ...