DOT Car-Free Earth Day Event
KAF Participants
Ricardo Miranda Zuniga (2025 SDSS Partiicpant)
Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana (2025 SDSS Partiicpant)
Helen Xinan Ran
April 26, 2025 from 10am to 4pm.
Grand Concourse near 188th Street
Directions
Korea Art Forum (KAF) is thrilled to announce their involvement in DOT's Car-free Earth Day of 2025, on April 26th from 10am to 4pm at Grand Concourse near 188th Street.
First launched in 2016, Car-Free Earth Day originally converted select Manhattan streets into public plazas and car-free streets for pedestrians, cyclists, and local businesses.
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Car-Free Earth Day has expanded to locations throughout the five boroughs – connecting Open Streets, plazas, and accessing over 1,000 miles of NYC's Bike Network! Environmental programming is offered by City agencies and community organizations along the routes to promote activism and education surrounding climate change, sustainability and other relevant topics. NYC DOT is proud to partner with local artists to bring exciting performances to the event.
The event is free to the public and presents programming at signature car-free locations in all five boroughs to promote environmental protection and education surrounding climate change, pollution, and sustainable modes of transportation.
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Dance and musical performances
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Fitness classes
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Public art installations
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Children’s activities
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Giveaways
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Arts and crafts workshops
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Cycling activities
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Educational programming
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Environmental sustainability workshops and demonstrations
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And much more in all five boroughs
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In 2024, Car-Free Earth Day was held at signature locations that included all 5 boroughs and comprised a total of 3 miles. 46 Partner produced locations on Open Streets Plazas throughout the 5 boroughs. 3 Art installations were unveiled along Car-Free Earth Day routes in coordination with the NYC DOT Art team.​
Date
April 26
Saturday, 10am to 4pm.
Location
Grand Concourse near 188th
Visit NYC DOT’s Flickr for images of past Car-Free Earth Day events, flickr.com/nycstreets.
Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga (born 1971 in San Francisco) is an American new media artist who approaches art as a social practice that establishes dialogue in public spaces. Themes such as immigration, discrimination, gentrification and the effects of globalization extend from his experience and observations into works that tactically engage viewers through populist metaphors while maintaining criticality. He has said, "I have always felt very strongly that for art to matter its need to be socially relevant and exist outside of the gallery and museum amongst people at large."
Dr. Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana is a cultural worker and interdisciplinary qualitative Latinx public scholar specializing in contemporary migration processes. Her current research project examines childhood arrival migrants to the United States. Her academic approach is grounded in Indigenous and feminist pedagogies and methodologies, emphasizing accessible and reciprocal knowledge-making that responds to community needs. Her research focuses on digital storytelling, testimonial literature, diaspora studies, and 20th- and 21st-century Mexican, Mexican-American, and Chicano/a literature and culture.
Xinan Helen Ran (b.1994. Inner Mongolia, China) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA from Hunter College (2022), and BFA from Pratt Institute (2017). She specializes in fabric, language, and found objects to construct emotional landscapes. She searches for the point where trauma, nihilism, and humor converge.
