parklet

American  

[pahrk-lit] / ˈpɑrk lɪt /

noun

1. an urban space for sitting, dining, or enjoying greenery, established where the sidewalk meets the street, often repurposing on-street parking spaces and part of the sidewalk: If the parklet stretches over the curb or covers the curb cuts, the city requires ramps be added for wheelchair accessibility.

   The restaurant’s owners were able to expand seating with café tables in a new outdoor dining parklet.

   If the parklet stretches over the curb or covers the curb cuts, the city requires ramps be added for wheelchair accessibility.

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Etymology

Origin of parklet

First recorded in 1850–55, and in 2010–15 for current sense

Example Sentences

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parklet

The succulent-adorned parklet outside of Hook Fish was filled on a recent Friday afternoon with customers enjoying a late lunch of $17 burritos with carrot hot sauce.

From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

“The drummer needed so much help tonight,” jokes LaDaniel Gipson, the soft-spoken, steady-handed drummer in question who’s perched on the ledge of Easy Street’s outdoor parklet as cars whiz by.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

However, the installation of wooden "parklet" seating areas on the town's busy Mercer Row appears to have lit the blue touch paper on a spate of vandalism and discontent.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2022

We have homeless neighbors sleeping on the sidewalk of the church across the street and in the bushes of the parklet in front of our house.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2022

Already the tiny parklet was like the dark bottom of a pit, with the hard sparkling modern town towering on every side, slowly pressing, pressing in and glaring down with yellow eyes.

From His Family by Poole, Ernest