Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Events

A one-day "introduction to cycling" program for adults and mature teens who want to improve their cycling skills, this class provides essential knowledge and skills to know, adjust, repair, and ride your bike like an experienced pro. This class is ideal for new cyclists who want to learn the basics, those returning to cycling from […]

Who keeps the City beautiful? Who decides what the municipal built environment should look like, what belongs where, and what the city’s public realm should mean? This lecture illuminates these issues through examination of the activities of the Art Commission of the City of New York — the city’s official design review board — past […]

Auto-Free New York‘s monthly meeting will be a field trip to see Newark’s new light rail line, which opened July 17, 2006.

The Largest Free Cycling Event in New York City Choose a 25- or 40-mile route Every skill level welcome Neighborhoods, historic districts, waterfronts and more Free bike helmets for first 100 kids Lunch & power snacks on the house Tour de Bronx jazz festival at the end of the ride

Join Friends of the High Line and The Kitchen for the second Kitchen High Line Block Party, a neighborhood street fair. They’ll be closing a street under the High Line to make way for dozens of free, artist-led activities, live music and other performances, and affordable food from local restaurants.

How did a pair of Chelsea residents with no government experience line up the City, the State, the von Furstenberg-Dillers, and a huge cast of characters to help turn the West Side’s mammoth High Line railroad into a spectacular public space? Robert Hammond, co-founder of Friends of the High Line, will have a public conversation […]