Saturday marked the inaugural Summer Streets, with the Department of Transportation opening seven miles of roadways to the people. From City Hall to Central Park along Lafayette, 4th and Park Avenue, thousands turned out to take advantage of the car-free streets. By all accounts Summer Streets was a success and we’re looking forward to the next two Saturdays, August 16th and 23rd. Be sure to check out Street Films video of the morning.
Don’t miss Summer Streets, New York City’s biggest car-free event ever. For the next three Saturdays, 7 miles of streets (Park Avenue, 4th Avenue and Lafayette Street) will be closed to cars from 7 AM to 1 PM. The streets are yours, so get out and have your way with them—ride bikes, walk around, lay out, use the streets however you see fit (almost). Did we mention Hova is all about it?
To get you there, Transportation Alternatives is organizing bike rides to Summer Streets from neighborhoods in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, while Time’s Up leads fun rides down the car-free streets.
The NYC Cityracks Design Competition, sponsored by the NYC Department of Transportation, has announced ten finalists whose new bicycle rack designs will be fabricated and installed around New York City this fall. Some designs are practical, others are sculptural, and some are ready for extreme branding. We’re just curious to see how they handle the masses of bikes at locations like Bedford and North 6th St in Williamsburg. [CityRacks]
Bike rack design by FADarchitecture.
