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It CAN Be Done: Shore Blvd. in Astoria Has Been Opened Up for People — And Without Cops!
Streetfilms has the exclusive footage here.
April 16, 2020
On Sunday, the Mayor Took A Different Walk (and a LONGER Drive from Gracie Mansion!)
Well, he didn't get driven to Prospect Park on Easter. He got driven further!
April 12, 2020
Cars Get Police Protection at Rally for Full Travers Park Plan
Hundreds of Jackson Heights residents, and scores of children, angrily protested the continued use of 78th Street by a politically-connected car dealership that has halted plans for a long-promised block-long greenspace between 34th Avenue and deadly Northern Boulevard.
May 12, 2019
Not-So-Car-Free: Drivers Still Reign In Supposedly Auto-Less Parks
Car-free Central Park is anything but.
October 10, 2018
Yes, Mr. Mayor, the U.S. Open Turns Flushing Meadows Park into a Parking Lot
Sure, the tennis tourney generates revenue for the city, but Queens residents are treated like garbage for three weeks.
September 7, 2018
Say Goodbye to Cars in Central Park
The last private car entered the park at 7 p.m. last night, culminating half a century of advocacy.
June 27, 2018
The Car-Free Central Park Victory Lap
This morning, car-free park advocates went out with Council Member Helen Rosenthal for a victory lap. Or, as indefatigable advocate Ken Coughlin called it, the last protest ride for a car-free Central Park.
May 1, 2018
Central Park Goes Car-Free Forever on June 27
The campaign for a car-free park has lasted more than half a century and involved thousands of people. Today's historic announcement by Mayor de Blasio belongs to all of them.
April 20, 2018
Prospect Park Is Officially Car-Free Forever
As of this morning, Prospect Park is officially and permanently car-free, the culmination of 50 years of advocacy.
January 2, 2018
Prospect Park Goes Car-Free Forever on January 2
Over the course of many years and several thousand volunteer hours - including massive petition campaigns in 2002 and 2008 - advocates were able to get DOT to gradually whittle down the times and places where cars were allowed in the park.
The mayor's announcement today is the culmination of that steady advocacy and the incremental progress toward a car-free park.
October 23, 2017
