Last weekend of July incoming…

And you know what that means? It’s time for ‘Summer Streets.’

This Saturday (07/26), the nation’s largest-ever car-free event returns to New York City—or, more importantly, Queens. (And Staten Island, too.) Our county gets first dibs (ofc), when all of Vernon Boulevard between 44th Drive and 30th Road shuts to traffic, 7am to 3pm. All sorts of stuff takes its place.

It’s that time again…

Our Community Cookout series with Tikkun BBQ and Astoria Horror Club is back this Saturday evening, with free movies, BBQ, music, and more! This month’s screening? Tremors (1990), which has changed the way we look at worms for good. Summer spooky! 

But heads up: 34th to 34th Street will be closed to traffic until 10pm to make way for a whole lot of fun.

Start spreading the news…

It’s press release official now: the first phase of the 31st Ave ‘bike boulevard’ is complete. (And here’s some press about it, too.) 26,000 spankin’ new square feet of public space, folks. How fun!

And that’s not all—we got $25,000 from NYC SBS to bring a bunch of art to the Open Street! You can read the whole press release here, but here’s the short of it: we’re teaming up with Talisa Amonte to bring five projects from local artists to the block in the coming year. About to be colorful out here!

Folks: we just want to say THANK YOU to everyone who came out to celebrate the completion of the 31st Ave ‘bike boulevard’ redesign—or, at least, Phase 1!—this last Saturday. And to our great guest speakers: Council Member Tiffany Cabán; State Senators Kristen Gonzalez and Michael Gianaris; Assembly Member Jessica González-Rojas; Families for Safe Streets’ Roz Gianutso, Ary Servedio and Jeff Y; TA’s Mae Francke; Open Plans’ Emily Chingay; Loveday Vintage’s Ivona Bilicic; UP-STAND’s  and, last but not least: Miser. It meant the world to see the support.