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Maybe it was the rain, or the fact that I only saw Wonder Woman one time, but it feels like summer in NYC has only just begun. But here we are, nearing mid-July, announcing the tenth edition of Summer Streets. I'm afraid I may take a nap and wake up on Halloween (not that I don't have my look already planned)

Introduction

Summer Streets is a project of the New York City Department of Transportation.Summer Streets is a free city program that blocks car traffic on Park Avenue between Central Park and the Brooklyn Bridge for three Saturdays in August. The streets fill up with pedestrians, bikers, rock climbers and other adventurers who dare to dream of a city without soul-crushing traffic.

Summer Streets

Reason to Be Selected

Although due to the held of this grand activety,great traffic effects will be brought into other parts of the city traffic,Summer Streets is still a clever trail about how to take full advatage of urban street space to improve the vitality of the streets spaces.And actually,this event really motivate more and more people to participate in street activities. It also became an iconic New York City event

Highlights:

The Summer Streets can provide various kind of outdoors free activities by taking full use of the exsiting green areas and spacious streets.People who want to jion this event can plan a trip as they wish for the initiative is given to the citizens.The events also takes a good example of how the coperation of City agencies and organizations contribute to stimulate street vitality well.

Details

Summer Streets is an annual celebration of New York City’s most valuable public space—our streets.For three Saturdays in August, the sounds of honking horns and idling delivery trucks give way to the gentle footfalls of pedestrians and the ring-a-ding-ding of bicycle bells. From 7am to 1pm, a corridor connecting Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park—long stretches of Lafayette Street and Park Avenue, and a few connecting streets—will be closed to motor vehicles and open to the public for biking, strolling, dancing and aimless peregrinating. There are also "rest stops" along the way, offering activities and entertainment galore—musical performances, a water slide, bicycling, a climbing wall and a 165-foot zip line. Summer Streets provides space for healthy recreation and encourages New Yorkers to use more sustainable forms of transportation. In 2017, nearly 300,000 people took advantage of the open streets

Held between 7:00 am to 1:00 pm, Summer Streets extends from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park, along Park Avenue and connecting streets, with easy access from all points in New York City, allowing participants to plan a trip as long or short as they wish. All activities at Summer Streets are free of charge, and designed for people of all ages and ability levels to share the streets respectfully.

Recreation and encourages New Yorkers to use more sustainable forms of transportation. In 2017, nearly 300,000 people took advantage of the open streets.
Summer Streets is modeled on other events from around the world including Ciclovía in Bogotá, Colombia and the Paris Plage in France and has since inspired other such events around the world such as CicloRecreo Via and London's Regent Street Summer Streets.

Conclusions

Stimulating vitality of streets can also be came true by taking full advantage and making full use of existing good built environment.Maybe the initiative that given back to people can bring more surprise to city vatalit cause spontaneous activity usually has a strong vitality.What the city should do is to expolre siutable platforms for both activity participants and sponsors to get a win-win situation.