Hope you finished all you last-minute Park(ing) Day shopping, because the last thing you want is to be rushing around buying gifts on Park(ing) Day proper—especially since there are fewer places to park. For the uninitiated, Park(ing) Day is an international celebration of transformed parking spaces, a time for families and friends to gather together on a temporary patch of grass laid out on the street, while trying hard not to think about all the......

Map courtesy of the Open Planning Project. Friday is Park(ing) Day, when New York City's obscene surfeit of parking spots will, for one glorious day, finally be put to good use! This year's Park(ing) Day will see roughly 50 parking spaces—twice the number as last year—transformed into creative little urban oases. The whole thing started back in 2005, when Transportation Alternatives commandeered a parking spot and put out chairs so people could sit and gab.......