{"id":331598,"date":"2026-08-28T04:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T04:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331598\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T04:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T04:28:09","slug":"friday-video-a-last-longing-look-at-summer-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331598\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Video: A Last Longing Look At Summer Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before the sun bids its <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk\/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=mash&amp;episode=s05e14\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk\/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=mash&amp;episode=s05e14\">crepuscular adieu<\/a> to the summer of 2026, we wanted to celebrate the greatness of the city Department of Transportation\u2019s Summer Streets program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nyc.streetsblog.org\/2026\/03\/23\/nyc-dot-more-summer-streets-nadler-car-free-streets\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/nyc.streetsblog.org\/2026\/03\/23\/nyc-dot-more-summer-streets-nadler-car-free-streets\">we have criticized<\/a> it for being <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nyc.streetsblog.org\/2026\/07\/10\/bummer-streets-annual-car-free-program-remains-pretty-much-the-same-under-mayor-mamdani\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/nyc.streetsblog.org\/2026\/07\/10\/bummer-streets-annual-car-free-program-remains-pretty-much-the-same-under-mayor-mamdani\">too small<\/a> and <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nyc.streetsblog.org\/2026\/08\/10\/opinion-to-save-summer-streets-lose-the-cops-not-the-security\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/nyc.streetsblog.org\/2026\/08\/10\/opinion-to-save-summer-streets-lose-the-cops-not-the-security\">foolishly over-policed<\/a>, but for five Saturdays every summer, narrow slices of the city become joyous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And no one knows that better than Streetfilms\u2019 UN-award-winning auteur Clarence Eckerson Jr., who has been covering Summer Streets since its inception under Mayor Mike Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He stopped by all five Summer Streets events to create these indelible videos. Enjoy them all and swap \u2019em with your friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, kids love it:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next, here\u2019s a dispatch from Queens:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eckerson also looked at Summer Streets from the 10,000-foot view:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And he also looked at how popular Summer Streets is:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s Clarence Eckerson: Your source for Summer Streets joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before the sun bids its crepuscular adieu to the summer of 2026, we wanted to celebrate the greatness&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,52479],"class_list":["post-331598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-promoted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331598","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=331598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}