Summer Streets is the Department of Transportation’s popular program, which turns Park Avenue into a car-free oasis for three consecutive Saturdays. Today was the last one of this year, 2018.
This year marked eleven years since Summer Streets launched, and the program has become more popular than ever, with nearly 300,000 people attending last year’s event. In celebration of the 11th iteration of the event, the city went with the theme “finding joy in unexpected moments”—which manifest itself in activities like live music performances, walking tours, food stands, and more.
“This year’s programming explores this theme by offering the public unique moments to experience the streets in new ways—to see, hear, taste, smell and feel at a heightened state as if for the first time,”
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