Events

National Park(ing) Day

Today is National Park(ing) Day, a time for street activists to repurpose thousands of square feet of public space -- now dedicated to private car storage -- into beautiful, temporary parks. New parks will be created in all five boroughs and will feature grass, seating, participatory art projects, bicycle-powered smoothies and other fun and thoughtful park designs.

By Aaron Donovan

10:56 AM EDT on September 15, 2007

Today is National Park(ing) Day, a time for street activists to repurpose thousands of square feet of public space — now dedicated to private car storage — into beautiful, temporary parks. New parks will be created in all five boroughs and will feature grass, seating, participatory art projects, bicycle-powered smoothies and other fun and thoughtful park designs.

Aaron Donovan

Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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