As the weekend commences, local vendors emerge from street after sprawling street with tempting, colourful displays of local arts and crafts, fashion and jewellery that will have your credit cards begging for mercy (if the locals only accepted them).
And in South Brooklyn on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, summer commenced at an event space known as the Bklyn Yard.
The weekend before the Games officially commenced saw residents on the Carpenters estate in Newham hold a "gentrification tour" of the area to raise awareness of plans to regenerate the estate through a possible deal between Newham council and University College London.
The search, conducted from the Defence Maritime Services vessel Seahorse Spirit and overseen by shipwreck hunter David Mearns, commenced during the weekend of 12 13 December 2009.
As personal tours commenced over the weekend, I kicked back and watched hills and meadows run throughout the grounds as a showcase of donkeys, pigs, ducks, goats, and various breeds of horses galloped through the over 900 acres of land.
"I still think people would sign up through October," Maglio said, adding that she could envision after-school or weekend programming commencing as early as April.
But it was a great opportunity to take a few days off and enjoy the weekend's festivities before the race commitments commenced.
This project commenced with clearing days at the weekends, when parents came and helped, alongside their children, to clear the area.
Talks commenced on Friday, before the opposing parties adjourned over the weekend to consider their positions.
His father, Jackie, was a weekend handicapper who first took his son to Monmouth as a 13-year-old, and the riding lessons commenced almost immediately after.
