Happy Park(ing) Day 2010! Yesterday, about 50 makeshift "parks" popped up around the five boroughs, representing NYC's participation in the worldwide holiday. According to the Park(ing) Day website, the festivities amounted to 700 pop-up parks in 140 countries, each reclaiming a parking spot for the duration of the day. Taking back the land from the automobile, five square feet at a time! more ›

Today is Park(ing) Day (Observed). Most banks and post offices are open, but hundreds of New Yorkers across the city are taking the holiday off of work and turning parking spaces into whimsical mini "parks." In a sort of friendly competition for the most creative use of a curbside parking space, designers install everything from geodesic domes to botanical gardens to ball pits, liberating over fifty parking spaces in all five boroughs from the TYRANNY of automobiles. And outside the Mayor's residence, activist group Time's Up! is having some fun. more ›

Park(ing) Day always goes by so quickly! One minute you're swimming in a ball pit in SoHo, and the next minute the tyranny of parked cars has returned to our city's streets. Viva la Park(ing) Revolution! Here are some more photos of yesterday's whimsical fun, which transformed over 50 spaces usually occupied by motor vehicles into imaginative urban oases. more ›

It's Park(ing) Day, the most wonderful day of the year for people who like sitting in the street. Did you get everything you wanted under the Park(ing) tree? Here are the first photos from the day's festivities, which involve the imaginative transformation of over 50 drab, lifeless parking spots throughout NYC into spontaneous "park" installations. more ›

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. more ›

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. more ›

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