June 2022
DomingoGO! Coming to Farmington Ave. This Sunday!
BY TED CARROLL
Thousands are expected to enjoy free music, dance and family fun in the West End, Asylum Hill and Downtown neighborhoods when Hartford’s first-ever Open Street event premiers this month.
Patterned after other cities that close off their streets to cars for a day, DominGO! Hartford will take place on Farmington Avenue from 9am to 3pm on Sunday, June 26. From South Whitney Street to Bushnell Park, our beautiful thoroughfare will be teeming with pedestrians and joggers who will share the streets with people traveling by bicycles, scooters, skateboards, wheelchairs and strollers. However you want to “GO,” and for how however long you want to “GO,” the two-mile DominGO route will offer something for everyone.
If you begin in Bushnell Park, you could consider a “fun run” of various lengths, from .5 mile to a full 5K. When you’re ready to slow it down, you could retrace your steps and check out an exhibit at Art Space, enjoy Latin music at the 224 and some family-friendly activities at Immanuel Congregational
Church. Then grab some refreshment from one of great ethnic restaurants or from the four food trucks that will hopefully be stationed at the soon to open West Side Square.
Coming to a Park Near You
No matter what park you’re in this summer and fall, you’ll see quite a bit of construction happening. Nat Gale, Director of Capital Projects and Operations, Michael Looney, Director of DPW, and Frank Delliripa, City Engineer/Assistant Director provided an update at City Council’s June 8th committee meeting.