open streets

The Open Streets and Open Restaurants programs have transformed New York City during the pandemic — proving to be successful initiatives allowing for New Yorkers to enjoy the outdoors while also helping small businesses. With this in mind, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city is planning to launch Open Boulevards to further enhance these programs. In addition to…

There is a battle brewing in a section of Brooklyn over extending the city’s popular Open Streets program. For 12 hours a day a section of Driggs Avenue at Russell Street is supposed to be closed to through traffic as part of the city’s Open Streets program — but the barricades have disappeared. A video from a neighbor captured...

The neighborhood of Greenpoint is divided over the city’s “Open Streets” program, which was implemented to help out small business during the pandemic. But now, some are saying the closed streets are unnecessary, as people are not using them and vehicles are going around the barriers anyway — or just removing them. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

There is a battle brewing in a section of Brooklyn over extending the city’s popular Open Streets program. For 12 hours a day a section of Driggs Avenue at Russell Street is supposed to be closed to through traffic as part of the city’s Open Streets program —  but the barricades have disappeared. A video from a neighbor captured a…

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the launch of the city’s Open Storefronts initiative — allowing for businesses to use sidewalks in front of their stores, in the same way restaurants currently do, in order to welcome back more customers safely during the pandemic. The initiative will kick off this Friday and run through Dec. 31 and is modeled after the…

Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an executive order for the Open Storefronts initiative in which businesses will be able to use sidewalks in front of their stores, like restaurants currently do.

The city’s implementation of the Open Streets and Open Restaurants initiatives during the course of the ongoing pandemic was so successful, it plans to make them permanent, year-round programs, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday. The Open Restaurants program, which rolled out this summer, expands seating options for restaurants on select restaurant corridors citywide by temporarily closing streets to...

Andrew Siff and Rana Novini have team coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.

A restaurant on the Upper West Side has customers dining inside bubbles on the sidewalk, as the city heads in colder weather months and leaving the fate of outdoor dining uncertain. NBC New York’s Rana Novini reports.

The familiar sound of an ice cream truck usually brings joy to New Yorkers during the summer, but for one street in Brooklyn, the jingle is reminding them of the danger of city streets. Neighbors in Boerum Hill and Carroll Gardens say they have come close to being hit by an ice cream truck, and some even witnessed one driving…

NBC New York’s Ray Villeda confronted an ice cream trucker driver who neighbors in Brooklyn have spotted running over NYPD barricades meant to kept cars out for the city’s “Open Streets” project amid COVID-19.

Play Streets, a long-standing and beloved staple for New York City children, is returning to the Big Apple this summer, although adapted for the age of coronavirus. Mayor Bill de Blasio made the Open Play Streets announcement during his Friday morning COVID-19 press briefing. “When you think about all the things kids have been through and again not being able…

NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

Nearly two dozen of New York City’s Open Streets will now feature Open Restaurants summer weekends thanks to a new initiative announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio Thursday. “Starting this weekend 22 Open Streets will also have Open Restaurants on them,” de Blasio said during his daily press briefing. “Some of them will be existing Open Streets, some of them…

Delays blamed in part on spike in COVID-19 cases elsewhere. News 4’s Rana Novini reports.

In this third round of street openings, an additional 11.7 miles of streets will be designated for pedestrians only starting this week.