Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Park(ing) Day

Here at 113th and Broadway, the curb is normally used to house an empty car. After being transformed by a team of Columbia planning students, however, it could provide a downright luxurious living space for normally-cramped students. The makeshift dorm room had two walls, a TV and cabinet space, a four-poster bed and, on the […]

On a day when street trees all over Brooklyn and Queens have been ripped out of their pits, shorn of their limbs, or cracked in two, “Alternate Side Mulching is in Effect Today!” seems like the right choice to kick off our Park(ing) Day photographic coverage. This installation on Vernon Boulevard between 48th Ave and […]

Get ready to reclaim your curb tomorrow. It’s Park(ing) Day, the annual celebration of streets as public spaces. This year, 51 parking spaces in the five boroughs will be liberated from the chore of private car storage and given over to the full creativity of New Yorkers. Here are a few choice concepts: “South Bronx […]

[smooth=id:21;] New Yorkers were again granted gorgeous Park(ing) Day weather today. Here’s a sampling of reader-submitted photos from local space-reclamation festivities, plus a bonus shot from down in DC. Keep an eye out for late additions to the Park(ing) Day NYC Flickr and Twitter feeds, and if you’re looking for more pics from other locales, […]