Season 6 - Week 7

Written By 31st Ave Open Street Collective, Inc.

Is it already June?

Summer is nearly in sight, and we’re chuggin’ along with a packed schedule to celebrate the warmer temps and later sunsets. It’s Open Street season, friends!

Here’s what’s going on:

Open Street Updates

  • The Ave got its truffle glow-up this last week — with practically every inch of pedestrian space now covered in epoxy gravel. Folks: it’s all coming together.

  • Expect a whole lot of planters and granite blocks early next week. And if you see cones placed at the edges of the white lines, that’s done strategically! So help keep them in place, if you can :)

  • Regular reminder: the redesign is still a work in progress, and it’ll take time for all road users—drivers, pedestrians and cyclists—to adjust. So be cautious and graceful as we see the Ave transform in front of our eyes.

News Clips

  • The city is making a last-ditch lobbyist effort in Albany to rein in ‘super speeders,’ which we’ve seen plenty of firsthand on the street. (Gothamist)

  • A whole lotta people came out to cycle against the city’s crackdown on e-bikes. (Streetsblog)

  • West Harlem became North America’s first neighborhood to containerize its trash—or, rather, put it in big ol’ bins—this last week. (NYT)

Weekend Plans

SATURDAY

  • NYC-EWOC Tabling: 12:30 PM - 4:00 PM

  • Astoria Fiber Collective: 12:30 PM - 4:00 PM

  • Indivisible Western Queens Tabling: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

  • Chess on 31st Ave: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

  • STARS Rehabilitation Astoria Tabling: 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

  • The Rolling Library’s Queer Book Fair: 2:00 PM - 7:30 PM

SUNDAY

  • Subra Coffee: 12:30 PM - 4:00 PM

  • Children & Adults Book Sale for Gaza: 12:30pm - 5:30 PM

  • Astoria Cat Rescue: 12:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  • Queens Families for Palestine Sunday Meet-Up: 12:30 PM - 06:00 PM

  • Queens Crafts for Palestine: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

  • Jinjoo Yoo Band: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

  • Bake Sale for Gaza: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  • Astoria Farmers Market: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  • Astoria Food Pantry Tabling: 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM

For information on each event, peek our events page, which stays more updated than this newsletter.

Upcoming Markets - June

If you’re interested in selling on the Open Street, read our FAQs first here and join our Markets WhatsApp group to get the latest news as markets are being planned. 

  • 6/8 - Astoria Farmers Market

  • 6/14 - 31OS Public Market

  • 6/22 - 31OS Public Market 

  • 6/28 - Strolling Saturdays: An Open Streets Marketplace by Rover Coffee 

Join Your Neighbors!

Sign up for a setup, breakdown or tabling shift this weekend and join the 31OS crew!

All are welcome and no prior experience is required. The most help is needed 12pm-1pm and 7pm-8pm but shifts are available all day for anyone interested in keeping an eye on things, meeting neighbors, and talking with members of the community who may have questions. 

All are welcome!

For more info on the types of shifts, or to see what are available for signups check out our Volunteer page. 

If you want to help, but can’t make it to the street in person, there are lots of other tasks and projects we’re working on throughout the week. Fill out our Volunteer Interest Form to share what you like to do and we’ll reach out if we have something!

Stay Connected via WhatsApp

Want to stay in touch with 31OS and your neighbors even when the Open Street isn’t active? Use our invite link to join our WhatsApp Community today!

Share Your Feedback

We strive to make the Open Street a pleasant experience for all, so if you have any feedback that you’d like to share with the volunteers we’d love to hear it! Our Feedback form is available 24/7 for members of the community to send their thoughts directly to our team.

Support the Open Street

It takes a lot to run the 31st Ave Open Street, such as renting storage space, paying for insurance, or buying supplies like extra chairs, sidewalk chalk, and trash bags to keep our street clean. We list a few of the materials that we are in frequent need of on our donation page. As a 501(c)3 nonprofit, we also take tax-deductible donations via Givebutter for those who would like to contribute financially.

We also just launched a campaign to fundraise for this summer’s Community Cookout series.

Every bit helps and we appreciate your support in making 31st Ave a better place for all! Thank you!

31OSC

31st Ave Open Street Collective, Inc.
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