The past three weekends, NYC has been celebrating Summer Streets, where each Saturday, Park Avenue has been shut down to traffic, and open only to walkers, bikers, and roller-bladers. Probably an incredibly sore point to all those who enjoy driving into the city, but, as I overheard one of the cops nearby saying, "If you're a New Yorker, you just get it. You know what this is about." And she couldn't have said it better. It's simply inspiring to have a city that forces you to just imagine a different and better way of being.
Delta, Lahsiv, Gussie and I went biking up and down Park Ave, exhilarating in the silence without constant traffic; absorbing the grandeur of the old buildings bordering the avenue; revelling in the moment which brought this entire diverse community together.
Experiencing the city, yet again, as we never had before.
From the nyc.gov website:
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