PARKing Day 2016

This Friday, September 16th, 2016, PLANewark will be celebrating Park(ing) Day and will install a “parklet” at 47 Halsey Street from 8am-9pm. “Parklets” are mini‐parks that fit into a parking space. They turn a place normally reserved for cars into one where you can rest, eat, make art, play games, and much more – creating an attractive environment and challenging us to think differently about public space. They have been successfully implemented across the country – in big and small cities – and they are now coming to Newark. The “Parklet” is being funded by PLANewark, with a wood pallet donation from Delisa Pallet Corporation and support from Burger Walla.

It will consist of temporary landscaping in planters, a seating structure constructed of reused wooden pallets, and an artificial grass carpet.

“PARK(ing) Day” is an annual open‐source global event where citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform parking spaces into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public places. Since the first Park(ing) Day in San Francisco in 2005, it has evolved into a global movement, with organizations and individuals (operating independently but following an established set of guidelines) creating new forms of temporary public space in urban contexts around the world. The mission of PARK(ing) Day is to call attention to the need for more urban open space, to generate critical debate around how public space is created and allocated, and to improve the quality of urban human habitat.

In addition to the parklet being installed by PLANewark, you can find two more downtown, one on Commerce Street (Between Mulberry & Broad) and another on Warren Street (between Summit and MLK). For more information on this program, contact Tyler Tourville at the email address above, or visit www.parkingday.org.