Chinanews.com, July 27. According to the US "Qiao Bao" report, the New York City Council recently announced that it will remove 1.5 miles of open streets near Brooklyn's Prospect Park to fully open it to cars. It is said that pedestrians and cyclists do not make full use of these shared roads. However, the city government also announced that the "Game Street" project will be launched in Brooklyn from Monday (27th). The open street on the Sixth Avenue of the Chinese Society is also listed, which will bring more fun and fun to local Chinese and children. Casual.
According to the announcement by the mayor de Blasio, after the outbreak, the open streets set up by the city government in Prospect Park West and Parkside Ave (Parkside Ave) and nearby East 7th Street in May this year will be cancelled and reopened to cars. Passable, which is part of a total reduction of 2.77 miles in the city’s shared streets plan. However, the City Council will also add two open streets in areas more suitable for opening in Brooklyn, one of which is located in Red Hook, on Wolcott Street between Conover Street and Van Brunt Street; the other is located in Bay On Jefferson Ave in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area, these two lines are part of the city's plan to expand the 1.72 miles of open streets in five districts.
Mayor Bai Sihao hopes that the city will have 100 miles of open streets during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide more outdoor space for New Yorkers. In addition, he also announced that the "Play Streets" project will be resumed on some open streets. The city and non-profit organizations will provide games and activities for children and families in the coming weeks.
According to the city's announcement, the plan will provide handicrafts, Connect4 and Jenga's large-scale games, sports, reading corners, and yoga and dance classes, but all of these are required to comply with social guidance guidelines. The plan will be launched on different dates in the next few weeks. The open streets from 44th Street to 45th Street on Sixth Avenue in the Chinese Community of Sunset Park will start on August 5, the "Game Street" plan, from Monday to Thursday. 10 am to 4 pm.
In addition, the other three game streets in Brooklyn will be located in Brownsville and Bushwick. These two streets will be launched on Monday (27th); the next game street will be located in Crown Heights in August. Launched on the 3rd, all these game streets will last until the end of September 4. At the same time, in order to provide Brooklyn people with more outdoor dining and relaxing spaces during the epidemic, the city government has previously extended outdoor dining activities to some streets in Brooklyn, currently under a project called "Cool Street". Under the plan of (Cool Streets), the city government added more cool elements to these streets, such as street showers and fire hydrant caps. (Cui Guoyu)