Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Park(ing) Day

San Francisco Takes Parking Spaces for Trial Sidewalk Extensions

By Matthew Roth | Feb 16, 2010 | 49 Comments

A photo simulation of the new Pavement to Parks public space in what was once two parking spaces in front of the Mojo Bicycle Cafe in NOPA. Image: RG Architecture. With the success of San Francisco’s Pavement to Parks trial plazas, the city is about to unveil its newest plan to use its streets for […]

Streetfilms: PARK(ing) Day 2009 in San Francisco and New York

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 21, 2009 | 4 Comments

San Francisco and New York were blessed with gorgeous weather Friday, which made for glorious PARK(ing) days in both cities. In San Francisco, upwards of 34 metered parking spots were transformed into temporary parks, on-street bike parking demonstrations, cafe seating and other public space reimaginings. New York, writes Streetfilms director Clarence Eckerson, had about 50 […]

The Sun Shines Down on a Glorious PARK(ing) Day

By Michael Rhodes | Sep 18, 2009 | 5 Comments

A temporary park in front of Ritual Coffee Roasters on Valencia. Flickr photo: Tristan C When the first Park(ing) Day was launched by Rebar in 2005, right here in San Francisco, it was on the vanguard of street space reclamation. Four years later, it’s undoubtedly part of a larger trend that includes such fine company […]

It’s Time to Reclaim the Curb: Celebrate PARK(ing) Day Friday!

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 17, 2009 | 1 Comment

PARK(ing) Day 2008. Flickr photo: plaid iguana Tomorrow’s (PARK)ing Day festivities in San Francisco are likely to be much grander than in years past, with dozens of locations mapped out across the city as spots where metered parking spaces will be transformed into temporary public parks, and other uses, for people, instead of automobiles. Temporary […]

More Park(ing) Day: San Fran Rolls Out the Parkcycle

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 27, 2007 | 15 Comments

I was pretty sure that New York City had San Francisco beat for this year’s Park(ing) Day, what, with the children’s reading hour and the on-street gymnasium in Brooklyn; Staten Island and Queens getting in on the act; and German tourists frolicking on the sod in front of the MoMA (all captured by StreetFilms, […]

Park(ing) Day is Coming

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 16, 2007 | 27 Comments

Depressed about the direction Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan is heading? Cheer yourself up by starting to plan for Park(ing) Day 2007. Friday, September 21 is the day when urban dwellers the world over pop quarters into parking meters and take over on-street spaces, temporarily transforming them into miniature parks, playgrounds, cafés and community spaces. […]

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