The Open Streets program is squeezing in one more event for 2025, and this one will include an icy instrument.

Center City District will once again close select blocks near Rittenhouse Square to cars on Sunday, Dec. 7. The initiative , designed to encourage foot traffic, will span Walnut Street from 19th to Broad streets and 18th Street between Chestnut and Locust streets. MORE: City officials point residents to food aid resources amid SNAP pause

Pedestrians who linger by one particular corner will catch a holiday spectacle: artists carving a frozen baby grand piano. Ice Sculpture Philly will build out the installation at 18th and Walnut during the morning and early afternoon, with a performance to follow at 3 p.m.

The CCD is programming other entertainment between 10 a.m. and

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