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Custom Sustainable Outdoor Tours
All custom tours are run through our partner, the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) which is at 155 Ave C, New York City. Time’s Up! Environmental Organization has been creating sustainable environmental change for over 35 years. On these customer tours you will walk through the physical locations in the East Village where through…
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12th Annual MoRUS Film Festival Press Release
12th Annual Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space Film Festival —- September 19-22, 2024 Every Little Thing Adds Up Featured films highlight urban grassroots environmental activism—revealing how community organizing, direct action and education have led to a more sustainable city and helped to combat climate change. New York City has always been known as a town…
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Every Little Thing Adds Up – 12th Annual Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space Film Festival 2024
Featured films highlight urban grassroots environmental activism—revealing how community organizing, direct action and education have led to a more sustainable city and helped to combat climate change. Purchase Film Festival tickets here and check out our press release here.
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COMMUNITY GARDEN GREEN UP VOLUNTEER DAYS
Your Community Garden needs volunteers! You’ll be helping to beautify and maintain the garden by pulling weeds, planting bulbs, moving dirt, and more. This is a great opportunity if you are looking for ways to get involved with the community or simply spend afternoon in the urban outdoors. This year Time’s up is focusing on…
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2023 Letter – Year in Review
December, 2023 Dear Friend, We hope this letter finds you and your loved ones well. This year the effects of climate change already devastating the Global South have arrived on our doorsteps: smoke turned New York’s air sulfur yellow, heat waves scalded the country, stormwater flooded the streets, and fires raged across once-lush landscapes. More…
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2022 Letter – Year in Review
December, 2022 Dear Friend, We wanted to take this opportunity to wish you a happy holiday season and thank you for your support of TIME’S UP! Environmental Organization. This coming year will be our 35th year of making positive, sustainable change both locally and globally. Your continued support is greatly appreciated and any year-end contributions…
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2021 Letter – Year in Review
December, 2021 Dear Friend, We hope that you and your loved ones are well. As this year comes to a close, we want to take a moment to thank you for your continued support and to share what we have been able to accomplish together through TIME’S UP!’s environmental activism and community events. Every day,…
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2020 Letter – Year in Review
December, 2020 Dear Friend, I hope that you and your loved ones are doing well and staying safe during this utterly unprecedented time. Because of your generous support, this has been another amazing year for Time’s Up! Environmental Organization and our planet—and for that, we thank you. Every day, more people are becoming aware of…
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2019 Letter – Year in Review
December, 2019 Dear Friend, Thanks to your support, this has been another amazing year for Time’s Up! Environmental Organization and our planet. Everyday more and more people are becoming aware of the urgency of climate change and how their everyday actions affect not only local but global conditions. As we celebrate the beginning of another…
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2018 Letter – Year in Review
December, 2018 Dear Friend, Thanks to your continued support, Time’s Up environmental organization continues to make positive, sustainable change despite an increasingly negative and divisive climate. Our everyday actions, events and campaigns have inspired people into a sustainable grassroots revolution. We are experts at making change from the grassroots level. We’re doing it everyday with…
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Legal Newswire
Stay up to date on legal news in the TIME’S UP! press center. UPDATE 02/14/2006: Legal Document: Judge Stallman’s Ruling. (PDF Format) New York State Judge Michael D. Stallman rendered his decision on The City of New York vs. TIME’S UP! The judge rejected the City’s request for injunctions to prevent TIME’S UP!, certain TIME’S…
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Brooklyn Critical Mass
Critical Mass is a monthly celebration of bicycles and other nonpolluting means of transportation, exercising our right to the road. Critical Mass is a movement, not an organization; no two riders participate for exactly the same reason. Brooklyn Critical Mass started rolling in 2004. Second Friday of every month, 7:00 p.m., meeting at Grand Army…
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25th Anniversary Party
Time’s Up! is 25 Years Old! We have empowered over 20,000 people with our 5 night/week free bicycle repair workshops, helped save community gardens throughout New York City, defended public space and the right to peaceably gather far and wide, and fought for sustainable, green infrastructure on the city’s streets. Come celebrate with us! …
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Riverside Ride
Join us on bicycles or skates at 10 p.m. on the last Saturday of every month at the Columbus Circle (59th Street) entrance to Central Park for a totally safe, magical, evening ride in Manhattan. From Columbus Circle we head west and then noodle our way north, exploring Riverside Park’s bicycle-friendly pedpaths. Nearing the northernmost…
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Old Croton Aqueduct Ride
Bike on the path of New York City’s first aqueduct as we explore where the city’s water comes from. Twenty-eight miles to the New Croton Dam. Return by Metro North train or bike back on South County Trail. Questions about the Old Croton Aqueduct Ride to Clearwater Revival HOW DO I GET TO THE…
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Earth Day Ride
EARTH DAY DANCE RIDE Monday, April 22, 2013 7pm BIKE RIDE at Tompkins Square Park Gaia Tree Out Annual Earth Day Ride is one of our most successful rides every year, because we consistently stick true to the themes of earth day and never sell out. While corporate green washing will about this earth day, ditch…
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Dance Ride
Times Up has always combined music to fuel the revolution. Over the years our sound bikes and marching bands have helped to reclaim open spaces for the public and create more community gardens as well as, auto free plazas in the streets. We dance in the street, in our community spaces and parks. All different…
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Donating Land or Real Estate
Please consider donating land or real estate (a vacant lot, residence, vacation home, farm or commercial property, etc.)- all land donations are acceptable to us and you can get a 100% tax write off. Appropriate land could be used for anything from starting another community garden to taking inner city groups out to farms, wetlands,…
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MUSEUM OF RECLAIMED URBAN SPACE BOOK RELEASE
We are excited to share a new book released by our partner organization, Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, which catalogs the history the museum and that of the East Village! Read it here. Visit MORUS at http://www.morusnyc.org Time’s Up! environmental organization is helping to launch this innovative, living history museum which will highlight how East Village…
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FREE OUTDOOR BICYCLE REPAIR CLASS EVERY THURSDAY
Come learn how to fix bikes, do simple maintenance and tune-ups at the bike mechanic repair classes.Subjects are covered in a four-week rotation beginning the first week of every month:1st Thursday, 6:30pm – Basics for Beginners2nd Thursday, 6:30pm – Brakes and Gears3rd Thursday, 6:30pm – Cups, Cones, and Bearings4th Thursday, 6:30pm – Wheels and SpokesPlease…
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LIGHT UP THE NIGHT STYLE RIDE TODAY!
We will meet at Tompkins Square Park at 4pm TONIGHT (23 May 2021), ride along the East River, and finally end up at the Canvas Bowery Location with some snacks.
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East River Park Compost Yard Tour w/ LES Ecology Center
East River Park Compost Yard East River Park Compost Yard, New York, NY 10002 Thursday, August 15, 2019 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT Join us for a compost site tour and learn how we turn your banana peels into nutrient rich compost. Please wear close-toe shoes. The East River Compost Yard is located within…
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Honey Bee Workshop | Saturday, August 17th @ 2:30 pm
HONEY BEE WORKSHOP Come learn the basics of beekeeping–from pollination to making ensuring good tasting honey–for city honey bees and their importance to the urban environment. Class taught by bee expert Dan Rothschild of City Bees and Peas. When: Saturday, August 17th at 2:30 Where: 9th Street Community Garden at the corner of 9th and…
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Clearwater 2019: June 15th-16th!
Clearwater Music Festival Saturday-Sunday June 15th- 16th Croton Point Park, Gates open at 9am Time’s Up! will be valet parking bikes at the Clearwater Music Festival. So ride your bike up to the front entrance and we’ll take it from there and secure your bike for as long as you’ll like. The Clearwater Music Festival…
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Future Positive New Year’s Eve Party- Monday, December 31st, 8pm
Future Positive New Year’s Eve Dance PartyMonday, December 31st 8pm-1amMuseum of Reclaimed Urban Space 155 Avenue C, Lower East Side Time’s Up bike rides CANCELLED! Facebook inviteEventbrite Invite This Future Positive New Year’s celebration is brought to you by two amazing all volunteer non-profit groups that have been partnering for several years and are celebrating together.…
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Halloween at La Plaza
Haunted Adventure Garden and Rat Race Maze at La Plaza Community Garden, SW corner of 9th St and Ave C, NYC. Wednesday, October 31st at 2-8pm. Live music from the Rude Mechanical Orchestra at 5:30pm. For 365 days a year, rats are the stuff nightmares are made of for New Yorkers. The theme at…
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PEACE RIDE to Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
SPECIAL PEACE BIKE RIDE to Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art on Staten Island. Sunday October 21st, 2018. 10:30am meet up in Manhattan for 11 AM ferry at BICYCLE BOARDING SECTION of Whitehall terminal. Staten Island meet up 11:30am at BICYCLE BOARDING SECTION of St. George Terminal. This is Peaceful Ride through Staten Island…
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Street Art Bike Ride: Jersey City Edition
Street Art Bike Ride- Jersey City Edition Sunday, August 19th, 12 noon Grove Street PATH train station, Jersey City Our gallery is on the streets, and we want to share it, pointing out famous and hidden spots. This Jersey City edition of the Street Art Bike ride is in collaboration with CANVS, a streetart/mural app.…
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Fix Your Own Bike Workshops
Come to a bike repair workshop every Wednesday and Sunday at the Time’s Up’s space (626 E 14th St.) starting at 4/4:30 PM. You can bring your own bicycle and work on it yourself with the aid of Time’s Up mechanics. You can use our tools and we have recycled bike parts available for sale.…
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Recycled Bikes For Sale
Recycled bikes for sale at the Time’s Up’s space. Bikes are available for sale on Sunday and Wednesday evenings from 6:00-8:00pm at 626 E 14th St. All proceeds go to support Time’s Up environmental organization.
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Time’s Up’s Waterfront Ice Cream Bike Ride
Waterfront Ice Cream Bike Ride Saturday, April 28 at 4 PM 626 E 14th St, NYC Join us for our Waterfront Ice Cream Bike Ride. Explore some beautiful parks along the East River, learn about the marine ecosystems swimming inside, and eat lots of ice cream! The ride is free and open to the public…
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Time’s Up’s EARTH DAY POLAR BEAR BIKE RIDE
Earth Day Polar Bear Bike Ride EARTH DAY- Sunday, April 22nd, 4pm Meet at the Northern side of Union Square Park, Manhattan, NYC Come celebrate Earth Day on your bicycle dressed up in white as a polar bear with Time’s Up! One day it is hot, the next day it is cold. Climate change is…
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Outdoor Bike Repair Classes & Workshops
Outdoor Bike Repair classes in La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez Community Garden (SW corner of 9th Street and Avenue C, Manhattan, NYC) every Tuesday now starting at 7:00pm until October 31st, 2018. Read more about our bike repair classes and workshops here and see our full calendar of events here. All of our classes…
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2017 Letter – Year in Review
December 4, 2017 Dear Friend, Thanks to your continued support, Time’s Up Environmental Organization has continued to make positive, sustainable change despite this negative and divisive climate. Our everyday actions, events and campaigns have inspired people into a sustainable grassroots revolution. We can make change from the grassroots level, and we’re doing it every day…
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Clearwater 2018 Dates Announced, June 16 & 17
This year’s Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival, music and environmental festival will take place on June 16th and 17th, 2018. Every year Time’s Up volunteers at the Clearwater music festival that takes place at Croton Point Park, Croton-on-Hudson, NY in Westchester County. We will be tabling at the front entrance and will also offer free…
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Support Time’s Up on Patreon
You can now support Time’s Up on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/timesup. Help save the planet by supporting Time’s Up’s environmental campaigns, workshops and events with a membership for $2 a month, or become an eco-supporter and help us for $15 a month. We are an all volunteer-run, 30 year-old, direct action environmental non-profit. And we rely on…
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Time’s Up New Year’s Eve Bike Ride and Afterparty
THIS YEAR THE BIKE RIDE IS REVERSING DIRECTION. IT IS GOING DOWNTOWN INSTEAD OF UPTOWN, ENDING UP AT AN INDOOR DANCE PARTY! Start at the park in front of the Plaza Hotel, 59th St and 5th Ave, Manhattan, 9:30 PM OR feeder pickup at Madison Square Park, 23rd & Broadway, Flatiron Side, 10 PM OR…
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DONATE to Time’s Up FOR #GIVINGTUESDAY
** PLEASE DONATE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS! TIME’S UP RELIES ON YOUR DONATIONS. ** Donate here: http://www.times-up.org/membership-support ** Thanks to your continued support, Time’s Up environmental organization has continued to make positive, sustainable change despite this negative and divisive climate. Our everyday actions, events and campaigns have inspired people into…
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Time’s Up’s Lights In the Heights Bike Ride
“Lights in the Heights” ride Sunday, December 17th 4:30 PM Meet in Manhattan across from the bicycle entrance to the Manhattan Bridge (NW corner of Canal St & Forsyth St) OR 5:15 PM Meet in Brooklyn at 3rd St & Prospect Park West. Join us for a fun and leisurely ride to see the “miracle…
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November PEACE RIDE
November PEACE RIDE Sunday, November 19, 2017 at 2 PM Meet at National Museum of the American Indian, One Bowling Green. We are so sad to report that Tom Otterness will not being meeting our ride this Sunday. A friend of his passed away and he will be attending the memorial. We look forward to…
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Halloween at La Plaza Community Garden with Rat Race Maze
Haunted Adventure Garden and Rat Race Maze at La Plaza Community Garden, SW corner of 9th St and Ave C, NYC. Tuesday, October 31st at 5pm. For 365 days a year, rats are the stuff nightmares are made of for New Yorkers. The theme at this year’s spooky Halloween adventure garden is Rats, because whether…
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Senator Chuck Schumer at La Plaza community garden to protect the EPA’s budget
Thursday, October 12th, 2017 Environmental activists, including Time’s Up’s founder at a rally with Senator Chuck Schumer at La Plaza community garden to protect the EPA’s budget from being slashed 31% by the Trump administration. La Plaza community garden is the vanguard of sustainability in NYC with countless sustainable environmental systems, all created by the…
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TIme’s Up’s BEACH RIDE
Beach Ride Sunday September 24, 2017 11:30 AM Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn (Northern entrance to Prospect Park) Join us for a leisurely bike ride out to Rockaway Beach to enjoy an endless Summer afternoon of swimming, and relaxing on the beach! Invite your friends! Meet new ones! Let’s have a party on the beach!
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Graffiti Ride Featured in Swiss Magazine
Check out this great article about Time’s Up’s graffiti ride in Swiss magazine Watson.ch! Read all about it here.
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August PEACE BIKE RIDE
AUGUST PEACE BIKE RIDE **SPECIAL RIDE – STATEN ISLAND SAMPLER** Sunday, August 20, 2017 Meet @ 11:45 AM at the Whitehall Staten Island Ferry Terminal in Manhattan to board the 12 Noon Ferry to Staten Island. Meet in the bicycle boarding area on the first level under the escalator. The ferry is free. (If you…
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Mystery, History, Murder, and Money Bike Tour
Mystery, History, Murder, and Money Bike TourSaturday, August 26th, 10pm at Manhattan entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge (SW corner of Chambers and Centre Street/Park Row) Visit glamorous and notorious Lower Manhattan’s most famous spots in history, infamy, and unparalleled opulence. Includes the shocking Wall Street bombing, the world’s biggest gold cache, and arguable the most…
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Time’s Up Coney Island Cyclone Bike Ride
Coney Island Cyclone Bike Ride Friday, August 23rd, 2019 **Three Meet-Up Times and Locations** 7pm @ Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge (SW corner of Chambers & Centre St) 7:40pm @ Carroll St. Drawbridge in Brooklyn (Carroll St. Btwn Nevins and Bond) 8:00pm @ 69 St. Pier in Brooklyn at the Shore Parkway bicycle path…
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Time’s Up Street Art Bike Ride
Street Art Bike Ride Check Time’s Up website for new dates Time’s Up 626 E 14th St. Our gallery is on the streets, and we want to share it, pointing out famous and hidden spots throughout the city. We’ll be covering the Williamsburg and Bushwick neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Tour includes NYC highlights, history and social…
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Clearwater Festival is Back
The Clearwater Festival is back on again this year and Time’s Up will be there doing valet bike parking right at the front entrance. The Clearwater Great Husdon River Revival, a musical and environmental festival will take place June 17th and 18th at Croton Point Park. You can check out more about it here, and…
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Bikes For Sale
Time’s Up! bicycle co-op is now offering inexpensive bicycles from its ‘recycle a bike’ program, starting at $100 to $185. This is a very practical, Dutch style non-gender-specific recycled bicycle, tuned up & ready to ride. Each bike includes front and rear fenders, brakes, chain guard, and a kick stand. Excellent for riding in the rain…
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Polar Bear CO2 Earth Day Bike Ride
Polar Bear CO2 Earth Day Ride Check Time’s Up website for new dates and location Come celebrate Earth Day on your bicycle dressed up as your favorite animal with Time’s Up! and CO2 Green Drive. As we know, Earth Day is every day. Let’s celebrate and support NYC’s new sustainable infrastructure, bike lanes, greenways and…
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Learn how to fix your with Time’s Up’s bike this fall!
Learn how to fix your bike this fall at Time’s Up’s free bike repair classes! OUTDOOR BIKE REPAIR CLASSES every 1st & 3rd Saturday at La Plaza Cultural Community Garden, SW corner of 9th St & Ave C. And FIX YOUR OWN BIKE every Wednesday/Sunday at Time’s Up’s Space, 626 E 14th St. All classes…
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2016 Letter – Year in Review
December 2016 Dear Friend, In 2017, Time’s Up! turns 30. A huge thank you for your long-term support, which has made it possible for us to make positive, sustainable change for so long. Some of our actions and campaigns have now created long-term positive changes. One of the first campaigns that we teamed up on…
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Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant to Close in 2021
Hurray! Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant will close in 2021. Several groups including Clearwater and Time’s Up worked together to help create pressure to close this aging nuclear power plant located only 35 miles from New York City. Read more about the plant closure and check out coverage of the demonstrations. And look for Time’s…
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NEW YEARS EVE BIKE RIDE & OUTDOOR AFTER PARTY
Saturday December 31st, 2016 Three meet-up locations:9:45PM at the Brooklyn-side entrance to the Williamsburg BridgeOR at 10PM at Washington Square Park Arch, ManhattanOR at 10:20pm Madison Square Park, 23rd & Broadway, Flatiron Side
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Donate Today to Protect Tomorrow’s Environment
Donate Today to Protect Tomorrow’s Environment. With climate deniers about to take the White House, our biggest hope for the next four years is with grassroots movements. For thirty years, Time’s Up! Environmental Organization has fought hard for environmental change, sometimes against hostile and repressive political authorities. Now, more than ever, grassroots organizations need your support…
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Bridges By Night Bike Ride
Bridges By Night Bike Ride Saturday, September 24th, 4:30pm Carl Schurz Park Esplanade at the end of E. 84th St.Facebook Event | Google Map The Uptown Bridges by Night Ride is back to celebrate new bike crossings, including the beautifully restored High Bridge over the Harlem River and the brand-new Randall’s Island Connector…
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SEPTEMBER PEACE RIDE
SEPTEMBER PEACE BIKE RIDE includes bike tour of Governors Island Sunday, September 18, 2016 MEET UP 11 AM – BOWLING GREEN (in front of The National Museum of the American Indian) 1 PM get on Governors Island Ferry PEACE MUSEUM NY’s commitment is to create an experience of peace, here and now, and has never…
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OUTDOOR BIKE REPAIR CLASSES *new time*
OUTDOOR BIKE REPAIR CLASSES *new time as of September 13th* Tuesdays 6:00-8:00pm La Plaza Community Garden, corner of 9th Street and Ave C Starting June 14th, Time’s Up will host free outdoor bike repair classes in La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez Community Garden, which is located in Manhattan at the corner of 9th Street…
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