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The popularity of NYC’s “Open Streets” has highlighted the overall lack of accessible outdoor community space for city dwellers. In order to increase the year-round availability of community space in NYC, a computational model was created in order to determine overarching guidelines for strategically choosing streets to be included in permanent NYC Open Streets.