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How Do You Summer Street?

By Nick Grossman | Aug 14, 2008 | 9 Comments

Planning to do something fun this Saturday at Summer Streets? Let us know! We’d like to help facilitate the planning of ad-hoc events along the route. Did you realize that most of the side streets adjacent to the route are also closed? So there’s plenty of room to, say, organize a game of stickball. We’ve […]

Wiki Wednesday: Urban Bicycling With Children

By Ben Fried | Aug 13, 2008 | No Comments

Already a prolific contributor to the Streetsblog Flickr pool, BicyclesOnly has recently put together a StreetsWiki guide to "Urban Bicycling With Children." The entry kicks off with a look at some of the less obvious benefits to biking with kids: Bicycling with children initiates so-called "virtuous cycles" that further promote bicycling. Parents who bicycle with their children […]

Eyes on the Street: Summer Streets Gallery #2

By Ben Fried | Aug 12, 2008 | 9 Comments

Welcome to the second installment of our Summer Streets photo tour. This pic comes courtesy of BicyclesOnly, who says Park Avenue South is "one of the more dangerous roadways to bicycle on in Manhattan. Without the cars, it’s a playground for these two." More pics after the jump…

Summer Streets: Bikes and Pedestrians Get Along Fine Without Cars

By Streetsblog | Aug 12, 2008 | 9 Comments

We excerpted this essay from reader Jen Petersen to lead off our first Summer Streets photo gallery yesterday afternoon. Her full account follows. If New York City’s inaugural Summer Streets event on August 9th was any indication, it seems that bikes and pedestrians do just fine without cars. Here’s why, as observed from the seat […]

Eyes on the Street: Summer Streets Gallery #1

By Ben Fried | Aug 11, 2008 | 2 Comments

Reader Jen Petersen sends this shot of the intersection of Lafayette and Spring on Saturday, along with her observations of how pedestrians, cyclists, and everyone else shared the road during Summer Streets: In the absence of special pavement markings delineating lanes for walkers, runners, cyclists, rollerbladers/skaters, people with children (and strollers), and others, we had […]

What Does Summer Streets Mean for Business?

By Brad Aaron | Aug 11, 2008 | 21 Comments

All this relaxed foot traffic surely brought a smile to the face of many a retailer and restaurateur While press coverage of Summer Streets has been generally positive, tales of the miffed muffler shop owner and complaining cabinet maker are bound to continue, as reporters hunt for naysayers to "balance" out their stories. But what […]

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