PARK(ing) Day 2007 NYC (en español)
Park(ing) Day fue un gran éxito en la ciudad de Nueva York el año pasado. Se convirtieron muchos espacios de estacionamiento en espacios verdes para la gente. Se acerca Park(ing)Day 2008, viernes, el 19 de septiembre ocuparemos 50 espacios en los 5 condados de la ciudad.
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [00:03]
Here we finally have some grass in Manhattan, it’s pretty nice, I
like it. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker</i>: [00:07]
And I seen this and like, let’s crash here. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [00:08]
The grass is a little cold, but it’s good. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [00:12]
Where’s the SUV that I saw here yesterday? </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [00:19]
I love tanning and this would be a fabulous place to tan. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [00:21]
This is an ideal crossword puzzle location.</font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [00:24]
We’re going to take over parking spot and do what we want in it.</font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [00:27]
It’s non intrusive, it’s welcoming, you know. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>All:</i> [00:31] Parking
Day.</font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [00:32]
What we’re doing here is very subversive. We are really changing
the equation on New York City streets. Many New Yorkers know that
it’s not uncommon for cars to park on the sidewalk, to bully pedestrians
at intersections. Today is the day when we mete out a little street
justice, when we take back what actually was originally ours.</font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [00:54]
We have 20 spots in all five Boroughs. Today is all about showing
New Yorkers that if their public space was allocated for purposes such
as parks, people are going to have a lot of fun, get to know their neighbours,
and have more space for their community. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [01:16]
I’m here with the Lower East Side Girls Club who’s been always raising
the consciousness of people in our community to important issues.
They’re trying to get people to be conscious about what vehicles are
doing to our air and our environment and our society. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [01:31]
Set up a space, put our bicycle blender machine and just hang out, have
the girls come by and just hang out, sit down and look at the city go
by. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [01:40]
We feel very strong about their environment, the fact that there’s
so many cars around, so we feel like everyone should at least once in
a while just stop and smell the roses, even if they are fake. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [01:48]
We’re sitting on 90 square feet of real sod, grass, in the middle
of Time Square. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [01:56]
The idea is to show in one day how much a small park, like even this
size, would actually get used. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [02:01]
I think it’s neat. I know when we went to London, you know,
you get a lot less room for parking and there is something to it.
You know you could be less stressed, less pollution. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [02:11]
The site at the Museum of Modern Art which is on 53<sup>rd</sup> Street,
there was actually a line to sit down on the park bench, so people would
sit down, they would eat an ice-cream cone or their lunch or their latte
and they’d wait about ten minutes and they’d kind of get kicked
out by the next person. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [02:24]
It’s kind of weird here in the middle of Manhattan but we really liked
it and…</font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [02:28]
We took the opportunity to relax for a few seconds after a hectic day. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [02:32]
I passed by and I saw this and I said “wow, I must check this out.”
And I asked the girls if I could come in and sit down because I have
never been able to sit on 7<sup>th</sup> Avenue and 32<sup>nd</sup>
Street and watch all the action that’s going on from a very secure
place. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [02:53]
Having a place like this in a congested area of the city, it just brings
warm feelings and makes you feel like you’re on the park, it really
does.</font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [03:09]
I have a gymnasium right around the corner here and thought I would
extend out into the community with some of my equipment and touch some
children that are just walking by coming home from school. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [03:27]
It just seems like a great way to make people aware how we actually
use our streets, and how we could get more public space if we were to
share the streets with the cars instead of just having cars. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [03:55]
Today we’re reclaiming a little piece of 7<sup>th</sup> Avenue for
the people. We got chairs, we got music, we have a mechanic here
for people passing by on their bikes, they can get a quick tune up.
And Birdbath Bakery here is a green bakery, they have generously donated
this awesome plate of cookies. We got free lemonade.</font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [04:16]
Having the park here today is just proof positive that we can do better
things with our public spaces than provide parking for cars. With
tiny investment, a few chairs, a little fake green grass, we put out
a couple of pizzas, we have a big board where people are drawing pictures.
We’ve turned, you know, a 200 square feet of New York City public
space into a public park that has attracted hundreds of people already
this morning. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [04:42]
Not only are people talking to each other but we’re eating together,
they’re sitting in the sun. It’s really nice. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [04:53]
Transformation of the gritty Cortelyou Street by the library into a
beautiful park with grass and shrubs, it’s a fabulous thing. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [05:03]
Well if you live in an apartment like a lot of us do, there’s no park
to take your kid to, so today there is. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [05:10]
I think it’s great, it’s kind of cool. I wasn’t sure how
it was going to plan out at first. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker</i>:<i> </i>
[05:16] Do you think it’s a better use of parking space than parked
cars?</font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [05:19]
On a beautiful day it is, yes.</font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [05:20]
What’s healthy for the planet is what’s healthy for the people and
this is just a demonstration of that. Like how cool would it be
if we had spaces like this along 7<sup>th</sup> Avenue that were dedicated
to the people, not to the cars? So I’m looking for this to extend
all the way up and down 7<sup>th</sup> Avenue, on both sides. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [05:37]
It really feels like the ball’s rolling and it feels like a lot of
people are getting excited about this and it’s great to see an idea
really germinate </font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [05:45]
We hope that over the years this could become just an opportunity for
spontaneous action, that any community that wants to really rearrange
their space for a day could set up some green and take back the street. </font> <br>
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