This weekend, thousands of raincoat-sporting, umbrella-carrying Cornell students headed to the Commons to celebrate Ithaca’s 42nd Annual Apple Harvest Festival.
Organized by the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, the street festival — commonly dubbed “Applefest” — sprawls from the Commons to Albany Street and Aurora Street. Every year, the festival brings together craftspeople, farmers, food vendors and live performers to celebrate the fall harvest.
Additionally, this year’s festival featured a new layout to enhance pedestrian safety and limit traffic. Stands this weekend expanded down West State Street until intersecting with Albany Street, avoiding closures on Cayuga Street. The scheme preserved Applefest’s size, while also limiting automotive dangers to festival attendees…