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New Twist for Summer Streets This Year — A Low-Car Zone Way Downtown
In addition to the customary three Saturdays of car-free streets on Park Avenue and Lafayette Street this summer, the city will be trying out something new for Summer Streets. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on August 13, car traffic will be limited within a 60-block area of the Financial District.
June 16, 2016
Car-Free “Boogie on the Boulevard” Opens Up the Grand Concourse for Play
Sunday marked the first car-free "Boogie on the Boulevard" of 2016, and for a few hours on a few blocks, the center lanes of the Grand Concourse were full of people.
May 31, 2016
Car-Free Day Doesn’t Mean Much Without New Policies to Reduce Traffic
New York City is America's car-free capital, home to eight and half million people, most of whom get around without owning a car. When so many of us already live car-free, what more can come out of an event like last Friday's Car-Free Day?
April 28, 2016
Scenes From NYC’s First “Car Free Day”
New York City's first "Car Free Day," the brainchild of City Council Transportation Chair Ydanis Rodriguez, is underway.
April 22, 2016
Three Pieces of the Manhattan Grid Will Go Car-Free on Earth Day
New York will create three car-free zones on Earth Day, April 22, as part of an initiative called "Car Free NYC" announced by City Council Transportation Committee Chair Ydanis Rodriguez this morning.
March 16, 2016
Broadway Ticket Sales Are Through the Roof. Damned Plazas!
In case you missed it, the Broadway theater business is booming.
February 29, 2016
Eyes on the Street: The New 215th Step-Street Officially Opens Today
Over a decade after the project's first expected delivery date, the reconstruction of Inwood's 215th Step-Street is complete.
February 3, 2016
500 People Ate Dinner on a Freeway in Akron This Weekend
How's this for a creative reuse of outdated 20th century infrastructure? This weekend, 500 people in Akron, Ohio, sat down and had dinner together on the Innerbelt Freeway.
October 5, 2015
It’s Past Time to Make Summer Streets Even Greater
When Summer Streets launched in 2008, it was accompanied by a veritable New York media firestorm. "Will Car-Free 'Summer Streets' Work?" asked the Times. "Businesses Brace for Summer Streets," warned WNYC. Seven years on, New York's marquee car-free event has become a popular August institution. It's time for more.
August 17, 2015