National Park(ing) Day

by Aaron Donovan

When
September 21, 2007   
Where
As of September 15, 2007:

The Bronx
  • High Bridge Area
  • Southern Blvd. & E. 163rd St.
Brooklyn
  • Seventh Av. & 1st St.
  • Bedford Av. bet. N. 4th & 7th Sts.
  • Carlton & DeKalb Aves.
  • Cortelyou Rd.
  • Myrtle Av. bet. Washington & Waverly Aves.
Manhattan
  • Columbus Av. bet. 83rd & 84th Sts.
  • Rockefeller Plaza
  • Times Square
  • Lincoln Center
  • Grand Central Terminal
  • Astor Place
  • 1st St. & First Av.
  • Penn Station
  • Stuyvesant
  • 9th St. & Third Av.
  • Houston St. bet. Second & Third Aves.
  • Broadway bet. 113th & 114th Sts.
  • Midtown TBA
  • 563 Columbus Av. (at 87th St.)
  • Seventh Av. bet. 24th & 26th Sts.
  • Seventh Av. & Charles St.
Queens
  • Western Jackson Heights
  • TBA in Astoria
Staten Island
  • Everything Goes Book Cafe in Tompkinsville
  • 3 Central Av. near Library
Cost
Free
RSVP
If you or your organization would like to get involved, please contact Lindsey Lusher at lindsey @ transalt . org or 646-873-6039.
More Info
To see the growing list of spaces and find out more about what is happening in NYC, visit the NYC Park(ing) Day organizing page. For more information about National Park(ing) Day, please visit parkingday.org.

Today is National Park(ing) Day, a time for street activists to repurpose thousands of square feet of public space -- now dedicated to private car storage -- into beautiful, temporary parks. New parks will be created in all five boroughs and will feature grass, seating, participatory art projects, bicycle-powered smoothies and other fun and thoughtful park designs.