Happy Park(ing) Day, New York City!

Hope you finished all you last-minute Park(ing) Day shopping, because the last thing you want is to be rushing around buying gifts on Park(ing) Day proper—especially since there are fewer places to park. For the uninitiated, Park(ing) Day is an international celebration of transformed parking spaces, a time for families and friends to gather together on a temporary patch of grass laid out on the street, while trying hard not to think about all the traffic plowing by just inches away. New York City has over 50 creative little park(ing) spots this year, making 2008 the best Park(ing) Day ever! God Bless us, every one. (Even car owners.) But once 6 p.m. comes, all these urban oases get handed back over to the drivers, so get out there and enjoy it. Details on all locations here.

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By John Del Signore in Arts and Events on September 19, 2008 3:30 PM

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Wza

Where's an out of control taxi cab when you need one?

smacky

I'm in love with the redhead

Steven

Stupid hipsters with nothing else better to do.

Rfive

yes, stupid fucking hipsters with little to add to the culture except their own ironic sensibilities. fuckin up the city except for their own "contributions" which make life difficult for the working class.

die.

NannyState

"Oh shit, bedbugs."

BongoBoy

Yes, sit in the gutter where dogs [and hipster kids in Park Slope] pee and poop.

Smart move.

Have UPS drivers and about every motorist needing parking yell at you all damned day.

Nice.

Hate to say it, but the trust funds are slipping into negative.

Maybe Sanitation is hiring?

thefacts

Of course the hippies are out in force on this.

The DOT commissioner is a hippy from the Village, who has plans to be the next Federal Transportation Commissioner, should Obama win.

Makes you want to vote for McCain.

JacqueMehoff

at least I'm grateful, unlike the giant corps who get a pass by this new agency to be enacted to help mismanagement.

JacqueMehoff

I'm just being honest. thank you, sir.

glennQNYC

IMO, you really are exposing yourself as a loser and a dummy sitting in one of those "parks."

schizofriendly

This is a lot sharper than the 99.98% attempts at public cleverness you see around here.

Still I wonder; what would Andy Rooney say...

DaleyGrind

Not sure if that's something I'd brag about J.M. But, okay, yeah, you go on with your bad self...

JacqueMehoff

my EBT card thanks you.

DaleyGrind

Gee, I would've partaken in this but I WAS AT WORK, you know, WORKING.

TN

Just watch out for the Morlocks after dark because there are still plenty of them around.

Kevin Walsh

>>>(There's still time to get over to First Avenue and First Street for the Lower East Side Girls Club Fairie Tea Party!)

The Eloi-zation of New York City continues apace.

www.forgotten-ny.com

zodak

tell us glob, about your charitable contributions. i'm sure you're one of those thousand points of light.

babyhitler

It wasn't really hipsters as much as old boomers who think they are cool. I liked the idea but it seemed that the guys thinking up the idea just bogarted the space for themselves. not very inclusive of the public.

whitecastlerock

This is beyond fucking stupid. Whoever came up with this is an asshole. Don't they have real jobs?

meowster

Oh for christ sake people, lighten up. Would it be better if a bum was laying drunk on it instead of a so called hipster? And not just in williamsburg, it's "international" as well as all over the city obvs... so why not just enjoy it, haters!

ides_of_march

This is so stupid.

glob

Imagine if all that time effort and money went into helping people in need. It is nice that Joe Hipster has a nice place to sip his Starbucks, but little Johnny that lives down the block is hungry and cant read because his mommy has to work two jobs to pay the bills and no time to help him with his homework.

Glad to see all the benefits of turning parking spaces into loser playgrounds.

Get a job hippie!