Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Park(ing) Day

Celebrate Park(ing) Day at the Park or at Your Desk

By Damien Newton | Sep 18, 2014 | 6 Comments

While it may be missing much of the fanfare of previous years in Los Angeles, Park(ing) Day is still one of the happiest days on the Livable Streets Calendar. Across the world, people will gather in car parking spaces, feed the meter and turn publicly subsidized personal property storage into a public mini-park. In Santa […]

Park[ing] Day Installation in South L.A. Highlights Residents’ Desperate Need for Peaceful Green Space. And Plants.

By Sahra Sulaiman | Sep 24, 2013 | No Comments

The young man looked nervous. Hands jammed in his pockets, unwilling to meet my gaze, he walked towards me, backed away, moved toward the potted plants sitting on the sidewalk, came back towards me, and finally mumbled something unintelligible. “I’m sorry?” I asked. His behavior was so unusual I thought he might be having some […]

Park(ing) Day in Pacoima Is Always Beautiful

By Damien Newton | Sep 20, 2013 | No Comments

A lot has changed for Pacoima Beautiful since I visited their Park(ing) Day in 2011. Max Podemski, who was featured heavily in our Annenberg Series on their efforts, has been in New York for nearly two years. Their executive director in 2011, Nury Martinez, now sits in the Los Angeles City Council. But what hasn’t […]

Next Friday is Park(ing) Day. Here’s Our Park(ing) Day Plans.

By Damien Newton | Sep 10, 2010 | 3 Comments

For those of you that have been reading Streetsblog for awhile, you know that Park(ing) Day is a sort of unofficial holiday around here. In 2008, I toured 14 spaces by myself. In 2009, I had a small crew, and we made it to 13 spaces. This year, Park(ing) Day looks like it might be […]

Weekend Update: The Park(ing) Day Ride

By Damien Newton | Sep 19, 2009 | 11 Comments

At our first stop in front of Marina del Rey’s Cunningham Group Architecture. For all eighty eight pics from yesterday’s ride, visit the Streetsblog flickr site. Ok, so maybe I bit off a bit more than I could chew. The route I originally mapped on Streetsblog had us visiting twenty parks at all parts of […]

Major Changes to Friday’s Park(ing) Day Ride – No More Santa Monica!

By Damien Newton | Sep 16, 2009 | 20 Comments

All images from the Park(ing) Day LA website Unfortunately, I have to announce some major changes to the planned Park(ing) Day ride for Friday. Unlike last year, there aren’t any parks planned for the City of Santa Monica so it seems like a bad idea to try and start a ride at 7:30 A.M. at […]

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