Just one in five New Yorkers live within walking distance of an active Open Street. This is around 30 percent of 2020’s total length, less than 0.04 percent of New York City’s 6,300 miles of streets, and well short of the 100 miles promised by Mayor de Blasio. This is equal to 24.01 miles of Open Streets in operation in 2021. Of 274 Open Streets listed by the DOT, only 46 percent, or 126 total Open Streets, were found by surveyors to be active. Surveyors were asked to report results after observing the Open Street for five minutes.) “Walking distance” is living in a census tract that is within a quarter-mile of an Open Street. “Non-operational” Open Streets are those where no surveyors found barricades in the street on any visit. “Active” Open Streets are those that at least one surveyor said were active - meaning one person observed the barricades in the street at any time during planned operating hours, even just once, and even if other surveyors’ observations disagreed. (For the purposes of this report: “listed” Open Streets are those on the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) website. With the help of hundreds of volunteer surveyors (including more than 350 unique participants completing nearly 800 surveys - a force of volunteerism that is a testament to the belovedness of this program) - TA documented conditions on the ground at every Open Street in New York City and analyzed how those results compared to the Open Streets plans listed by the City of New York.
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