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Enjoy the car-free streets from the Brooklyn Bridge all the way up to Central Park on one of our bright orange bicycles. During Summer Streets, you can rent a Dutch NY400 bicycle for free, and, even better, win one!

NYC Department of Transportation presents Summer Streets. On three consecutive Saturdays in August (August 8, 15 & 22), they will close Park Avenue and connecting streets from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park to motor vehicles; a green and sustainable transportation campaign designed to give New Yorkers a chance to get out and enjoy their streets freely! The 6.9 mile stretch of NYC’s streets will be car-free from 7 AM till 1 PM.

NY400 SUMMERSTREETS PHOTO COMPETITION
Capture your Summer Streets experience and win a NY400 bicycle! There are two ways to enter the competition:
-Use one of the 100 free digital cameras in conjunction with the free bike rental. Pick up a camera at the Bike & Roll free bike rental booths located at the Midtown rest Stop on Park Ave at 24th street or the Soho Station at Spring St at Lafayette St.. Your pictures will automatically be submitted to www.NY400summerstreets.org as well as the the Summer Streets Flickr page where they will be available asap.
-Use your own camera and upload your photos to the Summer Streets Flickr page, before August 30.

Was your picture taken at one of our interactive photos booths, or did you snap your own picture with one of the free photo camera's? Your pictures will automatically be submitted, and can be found at www.NY400summerstreets.org.

The winners will be announced on harbor Day (September 13), after the New Amsterdam Bike Slam Award Ceremony, which will be held at Battery Park from 11:45 - 12:30 PM. For more information and details about the competition click here.

ABOUT THE NY400 BiCYCLES
In 1609, a Dutch ship called the Half Moon arrived to the shores of what is now New York City with Captain Henry Hudson at the helm. 400 years later, 200 bright orange NY400 bikes undertook the same journey as Hudson across the Atlantic Ocean to show New York City how much the Dutch love their bikes!

The City of New York has embraced biking the past few years as the most sustainable, green & clean way of transportation. The NY400 biking program is a great incentive to promote this growing New York City biking culture. The NY400 bikes will we used in several NYC bike-sharing events, including Summer Streets in August, and during the NY400 Week in September. Later this year, most of the bikes will be donated to Recycle-A-Bicycle. The rest will be auctioned to the public, supporting a charitable cause.