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Play. Run. Walk. Bike. Breathe. This August the city streets are your playground.  Come out and let your imagination run wild!  August 9, 16, 23 7 am to 1 pm
NYC DOT Presents Summer Streets

NYC DOT and our partners are proud to present Summer Streets. We will temporarily close Park Avenue and connecting streets from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park to motor vehicles and open it up to people on three consecutive Saturdays in August (August 9, 16, & 23).
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Contest

Contest Deadline Extended
The photo contest deadline is extended to September 7, 11:59 pm. Submit your strongest images from the Summer Streets events to our juried photography contest. Winners will receive a gallery exhibition and inclusion in official Summer Streets post-event publication.
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Bike Helmet Fitting and Giveaway
Need a bike helmet? It's the law in NYC that children under the age of 14 must wear a helmet when riding a bike and it is strongly recommended that everyone wear a helmet. NYCDOT will be conducting helmet fittings and distribution at 24th Street and Park Avenue from 9:00 am - noon on all three Summer Street Saturdays. City Councilman Dan Garodnick will also have volunteers present to help fit and distribute the helmets on August 9th. Supplies are limited and you must be present to be fit for and receive a helmet. Parents and guardians must be present in order for their children to receive a helmet.

When: 9:00 a.m. until noon on August 9th, 16th and 23rd
Where: 24th Street and Park Avenue

Learn How to Ride a Bike at Summer Streets
Wish you knew how to ride a bike but never learned? Want help teaching your child how to ride? Bike New York is offering two training classes with expert instructors as part of Summer Streets. Participants learn the basics of balancing, starting, stopping, and steering a bike. Most people learn to ride their bike while taking the class, but even if they don't, they will leave with an easy, hands-free, crash-free, and low-stress way to learn to ride.

Pre-registration is strongly encouraged (pre-registrants can also request a loaner bike to use during the class) visit www.bikenewyork.org for more info.

When: Adults: 8:30-10:30 am, Kids: 10:30 am -12:30 pm
Where: Spring Street between Lafayette & Mulberry

Transportation Alternatives Offers Escorted Bike Rides to Summer Streets
Join Transportation Alternatives, New York City's bicycle and pedestrian advocacy group, on one of nine free, leisurely-paced, 5-10 mile bike rides from neighborhoods in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx to Summer Streets. The rides will be great for cyclists of all ages and riding abilities. More information.

Crunch Gyms to Present Fitness Classes
Instructors from Crunch Gyms will provide free classes on the Summer Streets route for all three Saturdays of the events. A full line-up of classes available will be posted soon.

Bicycle Habitat to Provide Bike Repair
Catch a flat? Don't let it stop you short. Bicycle Habitat will provide basic bike repair for Summer Streets participants at its shop on Lafayette Street between Spring and Prince Street and via a mobile unit at a rest stop on the northern portion of the route.
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