All that work, all that lobbying and compromising, all those broken promises, all those clipboards -- and nobody showed up for the first Healthy Saturday. Yikes. We've got lots of pix up on Flickr.

A biggish swath of JFK Drive was opened to pedestrians this Sunday; and maybe it was the gloomy weather, or Healthy Saturday's newness, or the fact that it's damn near impossible to find a map of the pedestrian area online; but it was about as desolate as Jerry Falwell's funeral.

However -- even with the limited strolling, bicycling, and rollerblading going on, it was still a nicer use of the park than a freeway. Having the park almost entirely empty is an amazing experience: peaceful, enormous, very beautiful and a little unsettling. Next weekend, we heartily recommend that you seize the opportunity to enjoy the park before everyone else figures out how cool it is when you've got it all to yourself.