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Today, all over the city, ordinary parking spaces will be transformed into temporary public "parks." The Trust for Public Land has organized a nationwide Park(ing) Day, and there are a number of these Park(ing) projects all over the city - Open Plans has the details on the NYC locations.
For instance, Colin Beaven, "No Impact Man," will be sponsoring a Park(ing) Lot at 7th Ave, between 24th and 26th Sts.; Times Up & Green Apple Maps have one at 7th Ave and Charles St., in front of Birdbath Bakery (complete with bike mechanic who can check out your bike); and Pratt students are holding a class at Myrtle Ave, btw. Washington and Waverly.
There are other locations outside the Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center, and Penn Station. Transportation Alternatives' executive director Paul Steely White said, "Less than half of NYC households even own cars, and yet we give over so much road space to parking them. What if one parking space on every block was converted into a greener public space that everyone could use? That’s the message behind Park(ing) Day."
Here are locations for Park(ing) Day, according to Open Plans. There's also a map, which includes these plus some others:
Manhattan
- 53rd St, between 5th and 6th Ave.
- Broadway, between 42nd and 43rd
- Columbus Ave. and 61st St.
- 2nd or 3rd avenue at the corner of St. Marks
- 1st Ave and 1st St
- 7th Ave, between 32nd and 33rd
- 34 Stuyvestant St (bt 2nd & 3rd)
- Stuvesant on the west side of E9th
- Stuyvesant, on the other side of the street.
- Broadway btw. 113-114
- Columbus Ave and 60th, by Fordham University.
- 563 Columbus (at 87th street).
- 7th Ave, between 24th and 26th Sts.
Brooklyn:
- 7th Ave and 1st Street in Park Slope
- Bedford, between N. 4th and 7th in Williamsburg
- Carlton Ave. @ DeKalb
- Cortelyou Ave. in Flatbush
- Myrtle Avenue between Washington and Waverly in Clinton Hill
Bronx:
- Southern Blvd and East 163rd, corner in front of Duane Reade
Staten Island:
- 3 Central Ave. near Library
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looks like a good way to get run over!
is this what people without jobs do?
Yeah, this project has always struck me as dickish.
This is so iditoic. I just passed the one on Brdwy and 42/43st. Two idiots were sitting on a bench while another idiot snapped away with a camera. Trucks and cars and people were flying from every angle.
This is a great way to get killed. I saw nothing relaxing or pleasant about this. And the guys unloading heavy boxes of Red Bull nearby didn't look so pleased about having to get their delivery around this circus either.
This is pretty cool!
Yeah, this project has always struck me as awesome!
How precious.
Carlton Ave. @ DeKalb and Myrtle Avenue between Washington and Waverly in Clinton Hill? There is a huge park right at on quite near both locations.
Kinda defeats the point then.
i commend the participants for their thoughtful nature, but really, this event does nothing but create more headache and pollution by forcing drivers to drive around longer to look for a parking space.
i think the idea is great, but it could be implemented and organized much better than it currently is.
I LIKE IT!
These dumb hipster shenanigans have got to stop before someone gets seriously hurt. I am calling in the NYPD or have a citizen arrest of these bozos.
Wow Dude, you're so macho!
Wow, 11 posts 'til a "hipster" comment.
Hippie, maybe. Hipster, no.
(I know that a lot of you are paranoid and convinced that dorky mid western 20 somethings are somehow a grave and dangerous threat to your life but really, NOT EVERYTHING THAT YOU DON'T LIKE CAN BE DEEMED "Hipster!")
I don't care whether they are hippies, hipsters, or even i-bankers. These stunts have to be stopped!
did you call the cops yet?
i hope Dude69 opts for the citizen's arrest route.
Uh, why? Exactly? A very valid point is being demonstrated here. I'm no hipster, have a family and two kids. I think it's great. Not that I'd be keen on the fumes of a seat ride next to the curb, but I'd LOVE wider sidewalks. The trend's been to take away from pedestrians in this town. So long as the meter's getting paid, why should you give a shit? The 'churn' effect that keeps the whole automobile in Manhattan process working just demonstrates the depth of the problem. There are too many cars, and people aren't paying the full costs of their vehicles. I weep for the poor small businessman who can't make it into work so easily without a car, but honestly the light of day needs to be shone on the fact that huge subsidies, even in NYC, go into supporting our car habit. If after that people decide specific subsidies should go to truckers, lower-income business owners, people with three or more kids, and pregnant left-handed women, fine by me. I hate the duplicitous nonsense of hiding all this under the idea that george washington made sure you could litter the air and clog the streets without meeting the cost of such actions.
weird to be angry about parks.
#18 -- It's the I-want-to-keep-using-valuable-space-
for-storing-my-personal-heavy-machinery-for-free lobby, and it's a good sign that we're hearing from them, because it means they are feeling that their entitlement is being threatened.