She's also looking to expand the Summer Streets program, which shut down a 7-mile swath of Manhattan roadways to traffic on three Saturdays this summer, so New Yorkers could do yoga, take salsa dancing classes or just drink in the car-free cityscape.
Other big cities with similar programs include New York ( Summer Streets, which since 2008 has closed about seven miles of Park Avenue for three Sundays in August), San Francisco ( Sunday Streets, in different locations monthly this March through October) and St.
Not every young adult has the talent and discipline of Jessica Ennis or Mo Farah, but nor are they epitomised by the wild looters and arsonists who roamed city streets last summer.
The initiative follows public criticism in recent years by senior police officers that politicians have essentially failed to tackle the issue of contentious parades in the winter months, and allowed tensions to spill onto the streets in summer.
The "grand trail" of 70 of the 5ft (1.5m) tall models of the Oscar-winning animated character is due to populate the streets of Bristol this summer.
In the summer, revellers flock to the streets for the runtur - the bar crawl famous for its excess and irreverence (one nightclub even has the faces of failed Icelandic bankers plastered over its urinals).
Meanwhile, the UPS hydraulic hybrid transmission truck begins real-world testing on the streets of Detroit later this summer.
Summer's here and the time is right for dancing in the streets...
The samba-dancing crowd filled the streets of Rio's business district and some passed out under the summer heat.
BBC: Thousands of carnival revellers on a Rio de Janeiro street
Over the summer, my wife and I ran into an old friend: PR maven Robbie Vorhaus on the streets of his hometown of Sag Harbor.
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