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Christian MilNeil

Groups of people chat with each other, ride bikes, and play games in the shade of several leafy trees on a street that's been closed to cars.

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Mayor Wu Announces Scaled-Back Open Streets Schedule for 2025

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Wu Admin Expands Open Newbury Events Into December

A City of Boston flyer advertises an Open Streets event for Oct. 20 on Brighton Ave. and Harvard Ave. in Allston. A map highlights the event location, marked as an orange X centered on the intersection of Harvard and Brighton. The Packards Corner T stop is also labelled a few blocks to the east (right).

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Boston’s Last Open Streets Festival of the Year Comes to Allston This Sunday

A stylized map of the Hyde Park nieghborhood highlighting a segment of River St. and Fairmount Ave. (center), the site of the Aug. 11 Open Streets event

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Hyde Park Gets Its First Open Streets Festival This Weekend

A large crowd of people walking and biking fills an intersection in front of a large church steeple.

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Open Streets Season Starts May 5 In Dorchester

Mayor Wu Announces 2024 Open Streets Schedule, With Expansion to Hyde Park

Map of Allston highlighting Harvard Ave and Brighton Ave., which form a large cross shape in the middle of the map and indicate the location of the Saturday August 19 open streets event.

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Saturday: Allston’s First Open Streets Event

A view from the Boston Public Library steps overlooking the festivities from day one of Copley Connect, a pilot project that will close one block of Dartmouth Street to motor vehicle traffic in order to expand the public space of Copley Square.

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Street Design

City Declares Copley Open Street Pilot a ‘Success’ and Plans Permanent Improvements

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Driving is the New Smoking: Lessons From America’s Public Health Victory Over Tobacco

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