I live on the Lower East Side, so I use this stretch quite a bit, as a pleasant detour when coming from Chinatown or the Manhattan Bridge. The riding isn't great, wot with weird zigzags and crappy pavement, but the scenery is nice, and it's off street. The intermittent suckiness that is the stretch from the South Street Seaport to the park, which has been getting better in fits and starts, is now going become permanently sucky? And will terminate at an impassable pile of dirt, quite possibly until I die? What's the bloody point of even trying?