NYC – Open Streets: Car-Free Earth Day

East 188th Street

On East 188th Street from East Fordham Road to Grand Concourse & Creston Ave, Bronx

Activities, Workshops and Presentations

• Programming by NYC DOT Safety Education
• NYPD Rock Wall
• Sports with Police Athletic League
• Recreation activities and games with Theory Nine
• Lip gloss making and crafts with We Create Shop
• Batting Cages by Grand Slam Foundation Inc.
• Bryant Park Jugglers
• Biking activity with Unlimited Biking
• Activity with I Challenge Myself
• Library information by PJ Library
• Voting information by NY Conservation Voters
• Skating with Go Sports NYC
• Rollerblading clinic with Lets Roll NYC
• Interactive health activity with Uptown & Boogie Healthy Project
• Bronx Children’s Museum
• Trivia with Mercado Project
• NYC DOT Cargo Bike Showcase
• Balloon sculptures with Wow Airbrush Art LLC
• Bameso USA Volleyball

Performances

• DJ Fortachon (10 am to 10:30 am)
• Orisha Wholeness or FFC (10:30 am to 11 am)
• Gogo Norales (11:15 am to 12 pm)
• Grupo Batey (12:15 pm to 1 pm)
• Nkumi Katalay Band (1:15 pm to 2 pm)
• Nieves Dance Studio (2:15 pm to 2:45 pm)
• Los Paleros De Nueva York (3 pm to 3:45 pm)
• DJ Fortachon (3:45 pm to 4 pm)

5th Avenue

On 5th Avenue from 40th Street to 45th Street, Brooklyn

Activities, Workshops and Presentations

• Programming by NYC DOT Safety Education
• Curling with Brooklyn Curling
• Biking information with Get Women Cycling
• Bead-making and crafts with Urban Glass
• Biking and safety information with I Challenge Myself
• Coloring and crafts with We Are Queens Art
• Interactive pop-ups by StreetLab
• Sports with Police Athletic League
• NYC DOT Cargo Bike Showcase
• Recycling activities and crafts with Playground NYC
• Crafts, obstacle course and crafts with Zing For Kids
• Climate activity and crafts with Citizen’s Climate Lobby
• Cultural activity and dance with I AM CARIBBEING
• Community outreach and crafts by St. Jude Community Center
• Painting and dancing with Think Place Agency
• Interactive school activity with Play Pattern LLC
• Wellness checks and fitness with DozierFit
• NYPD Rock Wall
• NYC Parks – Wildlife Unit
• Transportation jeopardy fame with NYC DOT Mobility Management
• Clean transportation art projects with Empire Clean Cities
• Councilmember Alexa Avilés
• Arts and crafts with Zoescope
• Brooklyn College
• Mayor’s Public Engagement Unit – Tenant Support Unit

Performances

• Harmony with Hunter (10 am to 10:45 am)
• L Train Brass Band (11 am to 11:45 am)
• Brooklyn Ballet (12 pm to 12:30 pm)
• Mariachi Tapatio (12:45 pm to 1:15 pm)
• Band of Others (1:30 pm to 2 pm)
• Sonder School of Music (2:15 pm to 3 pm)
• Amira B Band (3 pm to 3:45 pm)

Broadway

On Broadway from 17th Street to 46th Street, Manhattan

Midtown

Activities, Workshops and Presentations

• MTA
• Screen-printing demonstration by EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
• EcoHarmony Art installation by Natalie Colette Wood
• Learn to Ride class for kids by Bike New York
• Kelp Parade Art Installation and Activation by Amanda Thackray and Wendell Jeffrey (parades depart 22nd Street at 11 am, 1 pm and 2:30 pm)
• Spin Bike Activation
• DCAS – NYC Fleet (Cargo Bikes)
• Live mural painting by Museum of Urban Arts
• Mayor’s Public Engagement Unit – Tenant Support Unit
• NYC DOT Public Realm

Union Square

Activities, Workshops and Presentations

• Games and activities with NYC DOT Transit Development
• Advocacy for biking, walking and public transit by Transportation Alternatives
• New Yorkers for Parks
• Sustainability activity with Unlitter
• New York City Commission on Human Rights
• Kids’ art activities with Open Plans

Performances

• Stacy Dillard (10 am to 11 am)
• Fogo Azul (3 pm to 4 pm)

Flatiron Open Street

Activities, Workshops and Presentations

• Climate change education with Citizens Climate Lobby
• Interactive climate change experience with Space to the People
• Cycling educational activity by Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
• in·corpus

Performances

• Jack Glottman (10 am to 10:45 am)
• Silvan Joray (11 am to 11:45 am)
• Tilted Axes (12 pm to 1 pm)
• Satin Dollz (1:15 pm to 2 pm)
• Matthew Westerby (2:15 pm to 2:45 pm)
• Dance Entropy (3 pm to 4 pm)

Herald Square Plaza

Activities, Workshops and Presentations

• Indian cultural art with Akṣarā
• Movement activity with Dance Project of Washington Heights
• Crafts for kids with HONK NYC
• Make your own emergency lights with Play Pattern LLC
• Chinese cultural activity with HanfuNYC
• Street tape art with Kuki
• Sports with Police Athletic League
• World Cast Live

Performances

• HONK Family Band (1 pm to 1:40 pm)
• HONK Family Band (2 pm to 2:30 pm)

Times Square Plaza

Activities, Workshops and Presentations

• NYC DOT Traffic Operations
• NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
• NYC DOT Cargo Bike Showcase
• Shared Studios

Dyckman Street

On Dyckman Street from Broadway to La Marina, Manhattan

Activities, Workshops and Presentations

• Performances and programming at Quisqueya Plaza
• Helmet fittings by NYC DOT Safety Education
• NYC DOT Cargo Bike Showcase
• NYPD Rock Wall
• Sports with Police Athletic League
• Activity and information by Yellow Cab
• Activity and mental health information by Walks Of Light
• Football with Van Cortlandt Titans Youth Football Program
• Creative Art Works
• Health screenings by Godwin Medical
• Activations Collective for Arts Music and Dance
• Batting cages by Grand Slam Foundation Inc.
• Arts and crafts with Iconos Kids
• Community programs and stepping demo by Inwood Academy for Leadership
• Bike riding with Tread Bike Shop
• Rollerblading with Go Sports NYC
• Community garden program with The Ring Garden
• Pet foster/adoption with The Good Life Dog Rescue
• The American Dream Charter School
• Canoe program with Inwood Canoe Club
• Sailing, knot tying activity with Hudson River Community Sailing
• Bindlestiff Circus
• ConEdison
• El Congreso Internacional Dominicano (“Deportivo”)
• Mayor’s Public Engagement Unit – Tenant Support Unit
• Águeda Face Painting
• Youth and adult community programs by Fraternidad de Los Angeles, Inc.

St. Nicholas Avenue

On St. Nicholas Avenue from 181st Street to 190th Street, Manhattan

Activities, Workshops and Presentations

• NYC DOT’s Trucks Eye View
• Movement activities and music with Collective for Arts Music and Dance
• Chess Games with Ray
• Activities with I Challenge Myself
• Mental and health screenings with SOMOS Community Care
• Anti bullying with Pluma Poetica del Arte
• Soccer games with Fun Fit Kids
• Activities with Luperon High School
• Financial information by Northwestern Mutal
• Writing games and activities with Uptown Stories
• Yoga and fitness games with ADEUSA
• Bameso USA Volleyball
• Drum circle and tap dancers by Jazz Power Initiative
• Skateboarding and rollerblading with Go Sports NYC
• Voter registration with Dominicanos USA
• NYC DOT Cargo Bike Showcase
• Washington Heights BID
• NYPD Rock Wall
• Dominos, Ping pong, karate and board games with El Congreso Internacional Dominicano (“Deportivo”)
• Vitilla tournament with Dominican Vitilla League
• Sports with Police Athletic League
• Learn to Ride class for kids by Bike New York
• Accordion and tambora lessons by Catholic Charities Alianza Cultural Center
• Bindlestiff Circus
• Mayor’s Public Engagement Unit – Tenant Support Unit

Performances

• DJ Bebo (10 am to 10:30 am)
• Female Fight Club (10:30 am to 11 am)
• Los Paleros de Nueva York (11:15 am to 12 pm)
• Morisanna Band (12:15 pm to 12:45 pm)
• Mariachi Tapatio (1 pm to 1:45 pm)
• Esencia Modelo (2 pm to 2:30 pm)
• Ramona Torres (2:45 pm to 3:15 pm)
• El Rubio Del Acordeón (3:15 pm to 4 pm)

Woodside Avenue

On Woodside Avenue from 75th Street to 78th Street, Queens

Activities, Workshops and Presentations

• Programming by NYC DOT Safety Education
• Information for special needs families by Perfect Piece of the Puzzle Inc.
• Bilingual family activities with Cayena Press Inc.
• Chinese calligraphy with NY Chinese Cultural Center
• Interactive games on mental health with Siembra Today
• Classical guitar activation by Sonder School of Music
• Coloring and environmental awareness with Blue Bus Project
• Fitness classes, health, and fitness education with Bodies Divine Fitness
• STEM building with Girls are Cool with Tools
• Hudson River information by Waterfront Alliance
• Afro Caribbean dance workshop with Batingua Dance & Drum Productions LLC
• Bike information by Queens Bike
• Spin Bike
• NYC DOT Cargo Bike Showcase
• Drawing and painting with Save the People
• Sports with Police Athletic League
• Information by Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr.
• Education for women on starting small businesses by Rise Up Women
• NYC Horticulture
• Art and culture with Thai Community USA
• Programs for seniors with Elmhurst Jackson Heights Senior Center
• Gift bags from Thai Tourism
• Health kits from Apicha Community Health Center
• Cultural class brochures by Anurach Thai Dance
• Canvas painting with Q77 Art Show by City Prints
• Promoting Asian community unity and culture with OCA NY
• Promoting free social services and programs for kids with AAPI
• Gift bags from Korean American Association
• Free books from Street Books
• Culture and art with Temple
• Painting with Asian Arts

Performances

• DJ VERN (10 am to 10:30 am)
• NY Chen Tai Chi Academy (10:30 am to 11 am)
• Assae Ya (11:15 am to 11:45 am)
• AfroLatineers (12 pm to 12:45 pm)
• Vivarta Indian Dance (1 pm to 1:30 pm)
• DJ VERN (1:30 pm to 2 pm)
• Mariachi (2 pm to 2:45 pm)
• Santiago y La Orquesta (3 pm to 3:45 pm)

Port Richmond Avenue

On Port Richmond Avenue from Post Avenue to Castleton Avenue, Staten Island

Activities, Workshops and Presentations

• Programming by NYC DOT Safety Education
• NYC DOT Ferry
• Environment and garden activation by GlamGardenerNYC
• Bee information and interaction with Greenstinger Beekeeping
• Book truck and reading with House of Speakeasy
• Fitness activation by I Challenge Myself
• Bameso USA Volleyball
• Watercolor painting and crafts with Staten Island Children’s Museum
• Literacy information by LINC Literacy for Community
• NYC DOT Cargo Bike Showcase
• Crafts and environmental activity with Alice Austen House
• Interactive school activity by Play Pattern LLC
• NYPD Rock Wall
• Sports with Police Athletic League
• Mayor’s Public Engagement Unit – Tenant Support Unit
• Beekeeping information and activity by Bee University
• Angelo Del Toro Puerto Rican Hispanic Youth Leadership Institute
• Law Office of Charles DeStefano
• Catholic Charities of Staten Island
• Champions Martial Arts Staten Island
• NY State of Health

Performances

• Zumba Instructor (10 am to 10:45 am)
• Aztec Dance Company (11 am to 11:45 am)
• George Braith (12pm to 12:45 pm)
• Huehuetlahtolli And Fusha African Dance Co. (1 pm to 1:45 pm)
• Mariachi Tapatio (2 pm to 2:45 pm)
• DJ Got Me Fit (3 pm to 4 pm)