Tomorrow is this summer’s final installment of the inaugural and very cool NYC Summer Streets program.
This event takes a valuable public space – our City’s streets – and opens them up to people to play, walk, bike, and breathe. Summer Streets provides more space for healthy recreation and is a part of NYC’s greening initiative by encouraging New Yorkers to use more sustainable forms of transportation.
Get out there and take back the streets, as it were. Here’s some video for inspiration.
Update: Image above replaced with documentary evidence of car-less streets.
September 20, 2008 at 5:05 pm
[...] of traffic here and there for use by pedestrians and bicycles, as well as actively promoting the occasional closing of streets for better public use; all of which is hopefully part of a broader civic trend in recognizing that [...]