Overview
- Car‑Free Earth Day will close selected streets on Saturday, April 25 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., creating pedestrian corridors and public plazas across New York City.
- Signature stretches include Manhattan’s Broadway from 17th to 46th streets, St. Nicholas Avenue from 181st to 185th, Dyckman Street to Inwood Hill Park, Queens’ Woodside Avenue from 75th to 78th, Brooklyn’s Fifth Avenue from 41st to 45th, the Bronx’s East 188th Street from Grand Concourse to Valentine Avenue, and Staten Island’s Port Richmond Avenue from Castleton Avenue to Bennett Street.
- Each site will host free climate‑focused activities and temporary public art, including Frahydel Falczuk’s The Plastic Sea, Duy Hoàng’s An Indicating Cycle, and a new NYC Art Stop Letters design by illustrator Molly Magnell.
- DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn says transportation is the city’s second‑largest source of carbon emissions, and the event urges New Yorkers to try cleaner ways to get around.
- Outlets report Citi Bike will offer free one‑day passes for classic bikes during the event, which also kicks off the city’s Open Streets season tied to recent investments to expand plazas and bike routes.