Summer Streets is back with closures for three weekends in Manhattan in August. ( Photo: DOT) Summer Streets 2024 Takes Manhattan Ring-a-ding-ding!! Ring-a-ding-ding!! That’s not the title—twice repeated— of the classic 1961 Frank Sinatra album but rather... News 05 Aug 2024 | 11:24
The Snowflake hung 50 feet up in the air at the intersection between Fifth Avenue and 57th street got a big makeover this year. ( Fifth Avenue Association ) Fifth Avenue Snowflake is back! Fifth Avenue’s 30-foot-wide snowflake chandelier is the grandest in the world. Back 50 feet above our heads and brighter... News 08 Dec 2023 | 04:32
The Fifth Avenue holiday Open Street initiative, which launched last year in a ribbon cutting ceremony on Dec. 4, will be back again for this holiday season. (Photo by Violet Mendelsund/Mayoral Photo Office) Stroll car-free down Fifth Avenue On three Sunday afternoons next month - Dec. 3, 10 and 17 - a 12-block stretch of Fifth Avenue leading up to Central Park... Home 25 Nov 2023 | 05:29
A rendering of what Fifth Avenue could look like, after new construction begins next year. Photo courtesy of the mayor’s office A New Vision For Fifth Avenue This winter, in a bid to encourage holiday shopping and festivities, the city transformed a stretch of Fifth Avenue from... News 21 Dec 2022 | 03:15
A stretch of West 103rd Street has been part of the Open Streets program for two-plus years. Photo: Abigail Gruskin A Clash Over Open Streets In some parts of the city, an “Open Streets” designation means a chance to walk freely through neighborhoods that might otherwise... News 16 Dec 2022 | 03:41
