This year’s Summer Playstreets Program for children is scheduled to start on July 7 and will run through August 22.
The program is free and available to all weekends between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
The Police Athletic League runs the program every summer on closed-off city streets and in parks, as a way of keeping kids active during the school break.
Activities include sidewalk games, the arts and dance and music. Featured activities this year will include Double Dutch jump rope, Hopscotch, Nok Hockey and basketball.
There will be about 50 Playstreets throughout the city this summer, including several in and around Hunts Point and Mott Haven.
Local offerings are:
- 152nd Street & Courtland Avenue
- Findlay Street, between 166th Street & 167th Street
- 140th Street, between Alexander Avenue & Dead End Street
- Forest Houses, near 735 East 165th Street
- 170th Street between Park Avenue & Washington Avenue
- Monroe Houses, Rear of 1780 Story Avenue
- Faile Street Between Gilbert Place & Lafayette Street
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