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Summer Streets Is Over. Long Live Summer Streets!

By Brad Aaron | | 26 Comments
Powered by thousands of New Yorkers hungry for car-free public space and aided by three consecutive weeks of picture perfect weather, there can be little doubt that the Summer Streets experiment was by most measures a rousing success. Still, the New York Times reports that the city will "study the effect on businesses closely" before […]

Summer Streets #3: Spending Spree Time?

By Ben Fried | | 4 Comments
The first season of Summers Streets comes to a close with tomorrow’s third installment. Unlike last week, the sunshine is not in doubt. And whether the set-up separates bikes and peds or lets everyone mingle together, at least one other thing is for sure: This is your last chance to walk and bike car-free in […]

DOT Announces Summer Streets Photo Competition

By Brad Aaron | | 3 Comments
Given the heretofore undiscovered perspectives it affords, Summer Streets presents its share of photo opportunities. Making the most of them, the Department of Transportation is holding a contest for amateur shutterbugs to show off their best shots. From the Summer Streets Photo Competition press release: In addition to first prize and children’s prizes, awards will […]

Streetfilms: Going Car-Free in Milwaukee

By Brad Aaron | | 4 Comments
Summer Streets may be getting most of the attention lately, but New York isn’t the only US city opening its streets to public use. On a recent visit to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Streetfilms contributor Nick Whitaker captured two car-free events happening at once. First, the Brady Street Festival, which has roots going back to the 1970s, […]

Does Summer Streets Need a “Fast Lane”?

By Brad Aaron | | 59 Comments
This weekend, on the second Saturday of Summer Streets, the first thing my wife Jennifer and I noticed as we ascended the ramp from 42nd Street to Park Avenue was the quiet. I mentioned to Jennifer that I had come across a blog comment likening the scene to the New York portrayed in the post-apocalyptic […]

Summer Streets #2: Wetter and Better?

By Ben Fried | | 14 Comments
Car-free workouts on Cleveland Place will be back tomorrow, but what about the open-toed pumps? The weather might add a new wrinkle to the second installment of Summer Streets: Forecasts call for a 40 percent chance of rain tomorrow. How might showers affect the day’s events? Will the largely positive press from last week counteract […]
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