6 JULY 30, 2020 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Three ‘Play Streets’ to open in Jackson Heights
BY JACOB KAYE
JKAYE@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@QNS
Three Jackson Heights streets will
be among the fi rst in the city to
be dubbed “Play Streets,” a new
car-free street initiative designed to
provide open space for children to
play outdoors to prevent the spread
of COVID-19 beginning on July 30,
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on
Friday, July 24.
All three Play Streets in Queens
will be open to children to participate
in independent arts and crafts
projects, giant board games and
games of basketball, frisbee, Wiffle
ball, kickball and laser tag. Reading
corners, dance classes and yoga will
also be available.
The program supplements the
Open Streets and Open Restaurants
programs created this summer to
provide space for people to safety
social distance and help prevent the
spread of the novel coronavirus.
The three Play Street locations in
Jackson Heights will all be on 34th
Avenue, a street that’s currently
being utilized for the Open Streets
program. Kids will be free to play
on 34th Avenue from 72nd Street
to 74th Street, 79th Street to 80th
Street and from 92nd Street to 94th
Street from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., on
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday. The program will run
until Sep. 4.
In addition to the sporting and
craft equipment, nonprofit Street
Lab will provide 160 benches to Play
Streets locations throughout the
city.
While the mayor plans to add more
throughout the summer, there are
12 Play Streets slated to open at the
end of the month – four will be in
Brooklyn, two in the Bronx, two in
Manhattan, three in Queens and one
in Staten Island.
“Young people deserve the chance
to play freely in their neighborhoods
while staying safe from
COVID-19, and Play Streets will go a
long way toward easing the burden
of a summer unlike any other,” de
Blasio said. “Rebuilding a fairer and
better city means using our urban
landscape creatively, and I’m proud
to build on the success of our Open
Streets program by finding exciting
and productive uses for city
streets.”
In addition to the three Play
Streets, four new stretches of Open
Streets will come to the borough,
the mayor announced.
In Long Island City, Dutch Kills
Street from Jackson Avenue to
Thomas Avenue will be closed to
traffic and open to pedestrians and
cyclists.
In Astoria, 31st Avenue from 31st
Street to 36th Street will be added to
the Open Streets program, as well
as 47th Street from 39th Avenue to
Skillman Avenue and 49th Street
from 39th Avenue to Skillman Avenue
in Jackson Heights.
While the borough is gaining
three-quarters-of-a-mile of car-free
streets, it will also be losing three
Open Street locations.
Long Island City’s Center Boulevard
and 43rd Avenue locations and
East Elmhurst’s 85th Avenue location
will reopen to normal traffic.
Photo by Todd Maisel
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