International Parking Day 2023

September 15, 2023 is INTERNATIONAL PARKING DAY and the Allentown Parking Authority (APA), in Allentown, PA will celebrate with their local community! The fun event takes place directly in front of the APA’s office building on the corner of N. 6th Street and W. Linden Street.

As we did in 2022, the APA has chosen to incorporate Int’l Parking Day with a two month-long donation drive, which benefits two local agencies in need of food and household items; The Sixth Street Shelter and the Allentown Area Ecumenical Food Bank.

Through Social Media outlets, our organization’s website, as well as radio advertising, the APA is reaching out to the community for their help with donating items. On Friday, September 15th, the APA will present both local agencies with an abundance of collected items.

In conjunction with the donation process, each donor will be given a raffle ticket, when they fill a crate with items. They can also receive a raffle ticket for straight monetary donations. On Int’l Parking Day, the APA will draw raffle winners and award the winners with various prizes donated by Allentown’s local businesses.

In the early morning hours of International Parking Day, the APA staff will go to work on creating a welcoming, beautiful, park-like setting to host the day’s festivities. The “Park-setting” is generously donated by The Lehigh Valley Home & Garden Center. By 11:00 am, the 4 metered parking spaces on the 600 Block of W. Linden St. will transition into a gathering place that offers food, drinks, music, games, prizes, and more!

The Allentown Parking Authority’s city park area will boast grass, trees, flowers, park benches, fountains and as all great parks have, a hot dog cart!

Our local radio station, 96.1FM CAT Country, will provide a 2-hour, onsite, live music broadcast with games and prizes. Each year, this event has been amazing! We wanted to do something special for our community and we were excited to incorporate this fun event with something meaningful and deserving of our efforts. It has been such a success, that we absolutely wanted to do it again this year. Our goal is to collect twice as many items and have twice as many guests on the day of the event.