He said a see-through gate would only increase the risk.
Le Chateau, a trendy clothing store near the Empire State Building, dumped its solid gate in favor of a see-through gate about 18 months ago under an earlier partnership program that required merchants to pay half the costs.
"At that time, see-through gates were mostly the target.
"The see-through gates will give us more cosmetic enhancement, more of an open look.
Even the most disoriented tourist is not likely to confuse 34th Street with Madison Avenue, but these days it is home to a number of national chains, including Banana Republic, Skechers and Old Navy, all of which use see-through gates to invite night-time window shoppers.
TRYING to see through the gates, shuddering at the sound of jackhammers and buzz saws, worrying about 85-year-old cherry trees dangling their roots in the drained pond.
As we marched through one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the US, on our way to Walton family estate, we could see through the grandiose gates to copper-domed homes.
At the National Democratic Institute's office in Cairo, armed men in uniforms and plain clothes could be seen through a locked gate slicing open boxes of files stacked in a garage.
An Everest College campus in Alhambra, California, seen through the outer gates on April 27 , 2015
I do remember walking to the gate and seeing, through the window, the Ethiopian Airlines 707 and thinking, as I always do: "It is not physically possible for 70 tonnes of metal to stay in the air" and "I am going to burn to death in there".
His organization, a business improvement district, offered to absorb the $1,500 to $2,000 cost of replacing the old gates with see-through latticed metal gates that are found in upscale shopping areas.
