Summer Streets opens 6.9-mile route for recreation
Summer Streets resumes today, with a 6.9 mile route through Manhattan shut down to cars from Brooklyn Bridge to 72nd Street, with a connection to Central Park.
The stretch will be open for cyclists, walkers, joggers and all sorts of impromptu car-free cavorting.
It runs from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. today. There’s one more Summer Streets on tap: August 23.
LivableStreets.com calls the three-Saturday event “the most important car-free event in New York City history.”
The Bowery Boys have some pictures of a few places near Grand Central Terminal that are best seen on a day like today — including the portals underneath the Helmsley Building.
Blogger and bike rider Usman also notes that if you’re heading southbound, the route is mostly downhill.
