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John Del Signore/Gothamist
Park(ing) Day is observed tomorrow in New York City and in other cities around the world. The international holiday, which turns boring old asphalt parking spaces into whimsical urban oases, was started back in 2005 by Transportation Alternatives and Rebar, a San Francisco-based art and design collective. It became an annual event, and every year the curbside creations have gotten more elaborate and inspired. Last year saw parking spaces transformed into such curiosities as a meditation garden, a geodesic dome, and an urban arbor.
Though some miserable grouches wondered, "Where's an out of control taxi cab when you need one?" we think this initiative is refreshing. Transportation Alternatives spokesman Wiley Norvell explains, "Park(ing) Day is about jarring New Yorkers out of the notion that our streets need to be all-car, all the time. In a city where fewer than half of households even own cars, there are many more productive uses for 120 square feet." Here's a map of all the Park(ing) Day installations; if you're out there celebrating send us your photos or tag them "Gothamist" on Flickr.
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The photo of these two cuties almost atones for the one of the blubbery bastard holding the baby shark.
Seriously right dude! The girl on the right with the coloring-book for an arm can stay home, but who is the dish on the left?!?
She can stay home with me, please.
I see TA avoided Staten Island and south Brooklyn where drivers wouldn't think twice to run over their urban oasis with a 2 ton SUV.
Northern Manhattan too.
geta fuckin job, transplants!
fuckin hipsters with their hippie holidays.
When fun and inconveniencing others meet with a thumbs-up from the city! So, who's paying to truck in the sand and sod for these things?
Here, let me preempt any number of dumb comments:
1) Fucking hipsters!
2) Go back to Ohio!
3) Trust funds!
4) I'm at my desk at work, fuck you!
5) I've lived here forever and these idiots are destroying it!
That should about do it. If you wanted to make one of the above comments, don't worry — it's all been taken care of.
Goldman Sachs is taking over the entire U.S. economy while you dipshyts take over 120 sq ft until you run out of quarters for the meter.
What a victory , huh?
Gothamist, once again promoting aberrant hipster behaviour [first graffiti vandals, now this]. What a waste.
EXCELLENT! Thanks for reminding me Gothamist, I almost forgot. I will take my SUV to work tomorrow and hope they "accidentally" fall in my wheel well, lol
Such a stupid idea.
More things white people like.
Good grief, you guys sound like such a tedious crowd of tools.
I'm really wondering why there is a computer power supply box on the floor, did people use the connections to charge stuff?
Obviously they were live-blogging.
You know, I don't remember! Maybe there was some New Age music? It was a meditation garden.
I would also like to add that the little Miss RedHead on the right can also stay home with me. I bet that chick is a demon in the sack.
Good use of "demon in the sack." It helps us understand that you haven't been with many women much quicker.
I like the old woman in the background with the pink cardigan who is all, "WTF are you kids doing in that parking spot? You're gonna get yourself run over."
OK, not to sound like a hater (like the rest of yous), but I have to agree, this is such an annoying event!
Why would you possibly work up so much hatred about something as trivial as this?
"San Francisco-based art and design collective"
Bah I should've known. Such cheesy garbage has its roots far beyond that of just normal hipster retardation. Its rooted within Cali. My contempt for hipsters is exceeded only by those who like to say 'Sweet' and 'Hella'
Most of John Del Signore's posts are hipster related.