Summer Streets returns Saturday, July 26th with car-free joy from 7am-3pm in Queens and Staten Island, followed by celebrations in other boroughs! Open Plans has helped improve this beloved program year after year - from expanding to all five boroughs to extending hours based on your feedback. Join our young professionals summer party July 25th, suggest a Low Traffic Neighborhood for NYC, watch how London transformed Church Street into a people-first paradise and more in this edition of the newsletter.

In this week’s edition of the newsletter, meet our summer interns from Fannie Lou Hamer High School and Brooklyn College's Urban Sustainability program! We're also calling on New Yorkers to oppose the City's proposed 15 mph e-bike speed limit - criminalization isn't the answer to safer streets. Join Transportation Alternatives' webinar to learn how to testify against this half-baked rule, and don't miss our Low-Traffic Neighborhoods talk with The Happy Urbanist this Tuesday at Hi-Note.

As NYC's school year wraps up, we're celebrating the 30+ schools and youth organizations we've helped secure open streets and similar programs citywide. From PS 129's tireless PE teacher Nicole who runs College Point's daily open street like a neighborhood mayor, to PS 134Q celebrating a full year of street-based gym and recess, these school communities are proving that car-free spaces outside schools create opportunities for learning, play, and community building.