This weekend marks the beginning of this year\u2019s \u201cSummer Streets\u201d festivities.<\/p>\n
The event kicks off in Queens and Staten Island on Saturday, July 25 and moves to Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx later this summer, the city\u2019s Department of Transportation said.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
“Summer Streets” kicks off in Queens and Staten Island on Saturday, July 25
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The program makes over 20 miles of streets car-free throughout the season
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The DOT is also holding a contest to win a Knicks “Champions Way” street sign<\/p>\n
The program makes more than 20 miles of streets car-free throughout the season, opening them up to pedestrians and cyclists.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Vernon Boulevard between 44th Drive and 30th Drive in Queens will be a part of the celebration.<\/p>\n
On Staten Island, Broadway between Richmond Terrace and Harvest Avenue will also be taking part in the program during that time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSummer Streets\u201d will return to the following stretches in Manhattan between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 1, Saturday, Aug. 8 and Saturday Aug. 15, the DOT said:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lafayette Street and Park Avenue between Brooklyn Bridge and East 110th Street\u00a0
\nEast 110th Street between Park Avenue and Broadway\u00a0
\nAdam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard between West 110th Street and West 113th Street\u00a0
\nBroadway between West 110th Street and Dyckman Street<\/p>\n
And in Brooklyn and the Bronx, the program will return to the following streets from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 22:<\/p>\n
Brooklyn: Eastern Parkway from Grand Army Plaza to Buffalo Avenue
\nThe Bronx: Grand Concourse from East Tremont Avenue to Mosholu Parkway<\/p>\n
\u201cSummer Streets is a celebration of the season and how we can bring public space alive to benefit all New Yorkers,\u201d DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn said in a statement. \u201cMore than 500,000 people participate in Summer Streets each year, and we are proud to kick off this year in Queens and Staten Island.\u201d<\/p>\n
The DOT said it will be displaying a championship sign that was part of last month\u2019s Knicks ticker-tape parade at \u201cSummer Streets\u201d sites in Queens, Manhattan and Brooklyn, along with a photo booth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anyone who takes a selfie with the sign, follows the DOT on instagram and tags @NYC_DOT in a public post or story will be entered into a contest to win a replica \u201cChampions Way\u201d street sign, the agency said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The DOT plans to run one contest each weekend, with winners set to be chosen the following week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This weekend marks the beginning of this year\u2019s \u201cSummer Streets\u201d festivities. The event kicks off in Queens and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2296,25,297,231,9,24,12,63,58207,114601,134,136,135,27,296,142],"class_list":["post-303966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-app-human-interest","tag-app-top-stories","tag-app-traffic-and-transit","tag-human-interest","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-on-air-ticker-article","tag-sophia-mcvige","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-top-stories","tag-traffic-and-transit","tag-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}