About Summer Streets

Summer Streets is an annual celebration of New York City’s most valuable public space—our streets. On three consecutive Saturdays in August, nearly seven miles of NYC's streets are opened for people to play, run, walk and bike. Summer Streets provides space for healthy recreation and encourages New Yorkers to use more sustainable forms of transportation. In 2018, nearly 300,000 people took advantage of the open streets.

Summer Streets is modeled on other events from around the world including Ciclovía in Bogotá, Colombia and the Paris Plage in France and has since inspired other such events around the world such as CicloRecreo Via and London's Regent Street Summer Streets.

Held between 7:00 am to 1:00 pm, Summer Streets extends from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park, along Park Avenue and connecting streets, with easy access from all points in New York City, allowing participants to plan a trip as long or short as they wish. All activities at Summer Streets are free of charge, and designed for people of all ages and ability levels to share the streets respectfully.

Summer Streets is a project of the New York City Department of Transportation.

NYC DOT thanks the other City agencies and organizations who provide vital support for Summer Streets, including:

Department of Transportation

City of New York

Major Partners

Supporting Partners

Media Partners

Local Programming Partners

5BBC

Accent Dance NYC

Afro Brazil Arts

Afuriko

Animal Care Centers of NYC

Animal Haven Center

Ariel Rivka Dance

Artichoke Dance

Asia Society

Athleta

Aubrey Haddard

Baby Soda Jazz Band

Ballets with a Twist

Batingua Arts

Big Onion Walking Tours

Bike New York

Body and Pole

Brooklyn Ballet

Bryant Park Jugglers

Buglisi Dance

Calpulli Mexican Dance Company

Children’s Museum of the Arts

Citi Bike

Coexist Music Group

Cover Story

CultureNow

Dahka Band

Damn Tall Buildings

Dancing Classrooms

DJ Got Me Fit

El Museo del Barrio

Fogo Azul

F Tones

Gleich Dances

Green Inspired Art

Go! Sports USA

Heidi Latsky Dance

Hyrox

HONK NYC

HYPOTHEkids

I LOVE NY

International Center of Photography

Inti and the Moon

Jaliya Kafo Ensemble

Japan Society

JHEVERE

Jody Oberfelder Projects

John James Band

Kyle Sparkman

L Train Brass

Manhattan Borough Historian

Marching Cobras

Martial Arfs

Materials for the Arts

MICHIYAYA Dance

Madison Square Garden/ New York Knicks

Movement by Lara

Municipal Art Society

Museum of Arts & Design

Museum of Chinese in America

Music with a Message

Neffy

New York Violinist

Niall O’Leary School of Irish Dance

Noguchi Museum

NY Botanical Garden

NYC Kids Project

Pop Fit Kids

Pop Up Yoga

Queens of Brass

Rite of Spring Duo

Robert Anderson Band

Rockness Music

Rudin Management

Saung Budava Dance

Sirens of Gotham

Soapbox Sound

Society of Illustrators

Teresa Fellion Dance

The Afro-Latineers

The Africa Center

The Blue Dahlia

The Center for Book Arts

The Movement Creative

Transportation Alternatives

Unlimited Biking

Urban Studio Unbound

VISIONS Services

WASS

Wildlife Theater

Wheelchair Sports Federation

WRK NYC

XAOC Contemporary Ballet

Youth in a Roman Field