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2011 Year in Review

Time’s Up! had a massive year in 2011. Just check out our End of Year Letter! We took more amazing photos and made more incredible videos. We continued our weekly fix-your-bike workshops, recycle-a-bike program, and regular rides and campaigns. Some highlights were our continuation of our participation in Summer Streets with a mobile dance party,… read more
Time’s Up! at OWS

This is the story of Time’s Up!’s involvement with Occupy Wall Street. We have also posted the story of our Energy Bikes and an Energy Bike how-to page. Time’s Up has been championing the issues at the heart of Occupy Wall Street for 25 years, so it’s no wonder that our volunteers were there at… read more
Energy Bikes, the story

This is the story of how Time’s Up! brought energy bikes to Occupy Wall Street. We have also posted the technical details of our energy bikes and an overview of all of our work at OWS. Time’s Up! was involved with Occupy Wall Street from its inception on several fronts: media, press, bike support, facilitation,… read more
Energy Bikes, how-to

Time’s Up! was involved with the Occupy Wall Street Sustainability working group. The first task was to make the Occupy Movement in Zuccotti Park more environmentally sustainable. Time’s Up! Volunteers spearheaded a wide range of projects, including the iconic renewable alternative energy project, building 14 energy bikes to fulfill all of Occupy Wall Street’s energy… read more
Defending Community Gardens Campaign 2010

Esperanza Community Garden Bulldozed Feb 2000 “East Village Gardens” Condo built on Esperanza Community Garden Site read more
Response to Benepe Op-Ed

Time’s Up! read your 8/11/10 NY Post Op-Ed with great dismay. There is a certain Orwellian ‘war is peace’ quality to it that separates fact from reality. You write that “not a single Parks garden has been lost.” You are clearly making a distinction between Green Thumb Park Department protected gardens and others which are… read more
Ride to Save Community Gardens

Ride to Save Community Gardens, and other actions NYC’s community gardens are in trouble again. Time’s Up! has been on the forefront of saving community gardens in the past from having them be turned over to private development. In 2002, there was a Spitzer Agreement to preserve 500 green spaces (2002 Preservation Agreement) but this… read more
LOVE YOUR LANE CAMPAIGN

News Date: Monday, February 9, 2009 – 5:45pm read more
Federal and State Judicial Victories

In 2004 Time’s Up! steps up its campaign to defend New Yorker’s First Amendment Rights. Since its inception, Time’s Up! has been dedicated not only to protecting the environment, but also to defending the community’s right to use and assemble in public spaces. Fueled by the suppression of First Amendment Rights during and after the 2004… read more
Bike and Pedestrian Memorials

In 2005-2006, “ghost bikes” — bicycles painted white with plaques placed above them to recognize deceased cyclists — have been installed in New York City by members of Time’s Up! and Visual Resistance. The NYC Street Memorial Project now installs ghost bikes in NYC and maintains the website www.ghostbikes.org. which includes ghost bike projects throughout… read more
Bike Parking Bad News

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Bike Parking Good News

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Secure Bike Parking

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Call for Cyclists Arrested or Harassed

Call for Cyclists Arrested or Harassed During and Since the RNC Our Legal Newswire has more recent updates about the city’s campaign against Critical Mass and bicyclists using public space. UPDATE 04/12/2005: A page one story in today’s New York Times reveals that the D.A.’s office doctored videotaped evidence to prosecute a bicyclist who was… read more
Andre Anderson Ghost Bike

GHOST BIKE MEMORIAL IN HONOR OF ANDRE ANDERSON, 14-YEAR-OLD CYCLIST KILLED BY SUV Photo by Tod Seelie On September 24, 2005, 14-year-old Andre Anderson was killed on Shore Front Parkway at Beach 77th Street in Far Rockaway, Queens, by Jose Vicens, 23, who was driving his Lincoln Navigator. Andre was struck from behind and killed… read more
The Caterpillar

The March 30, 2001,Critical Mass ride rolled in support of community gardens. A highlight of this event was the world debut of the GIANT CATERPILLAR, a bicycling work of art that moved through city streets. As you can see in the picture above, it was almost as big as a city bus — and much… read more
Working With Others

{menu template=’a_navigation_hort_pipes’ start_page=”community-gardens”} A lot of great groups work on Community Gardens in New York City. Here are some that TIME’S UP! has had the privilege of working with. Friends of Brook Park — We’ve worked in the Brook Park garden, and worked with them on garden tours in the Bronx. Green Map — Their… read more
Legal FAQ

1. Which traffic laws apply to bicyclists? Bikes are traffic, so all traffic laws (referred to in New York as Vehicle and Traffic Laws or “VTL”) that apply to cars apply to bikes. This includes signaling to make a turn or stop. 2. Is it legal to ride against traffic? No, since all traffic laws… read more
Pedicabs

Introduction In 1994 Time’s Up! supports the start of the Pedicab Industry in New York City. Working with the HUB Station, Time’s Up! designs, assembles, and introduces 12 original pedicabs (bike powered cabs) to the streets of New York as a carbon-dioxide-reducing alternative form of urban transportation. Due to the tireless efforts of Pedicabs of… read more
Garden Events

Kids work on arts and crafts while others work on the garden at Brook Park Garden in the South Bronx. Flowers … spices … bugs … compost … ecology … public space … there is much to see and enjoy and learn about in a community garden. To raise awareness of gardens and their communities,… read more
Garden Tours

Ecological Garden Tours The Green Apple Ride visits the 7th Street Recycling Garden for a seminar. Ecological Garden Tours, organized by TIME’S UP! and led by well-informed guides, these bicycle rides to endangered and protected gardens usually end with bicyclists honing their own horticultural skills and sampling a garden’s organic produce. Some of our… read more
Defending Gardens

Locked down to save the gardens (June 2002) Saving and Defending Gardens Over the last 20 years, local people in neighborhoods from the South Bronx to the East Village to Bedford-Stuyvesant have turned abandoned, refuse-strewn lots into marvelous gardens, green oases of hope in decaying, often redlined districts. Along with serving as an outdoor venue,… read more
Growing Gardens

Breaking new ground in Brook Park, South Bronx. We love to help create new community gardens, and to help them grow and flourish. It all starts with a “cleanup” of a derelict vacant lot. A good way to find such a lot is to contactGreenThumb. Here’s how it works: TIME’S UP! brings Hands-On Help: volunteers,… read more
TIMES UP! Diving Team

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Reclaim the Streets

1998 Reclaim The Streets, which started in England, is a way of drawing attention to the fact that the urban design of cities was not only meant for cars, but for the community. This was done through direct action, art, and dance. This Reclaim The Streets campaign was very successful in Europe but was more difficult… read more
Reclaiming Public Space

Frisbees and bicycles prohibited in the park, but feel free to drive well over the speed limit. Taking our right place on the streets and in parks. Establishing and defending community gardens. Fighting to protect our air and water. Being an urban environmental group means that a common thread runs through the things we do:… read more
Memorial Stencil Project

Cars and trucks not only destroy our environment, but they can destroy each of us instantly! HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER Under New York State law, if you use a gun or a knife to kill someone it’s a crime. But if you kill someone with a car, as long as you’re not drinking,… read more
Greenways Today

In collaboration with many organizations, Time’s Up! rallies public support for the building of greenways to increase non-polluting transportation and public waterfront access. Working in collaboration since 1997, Time’s Up! and the Cherry Tree Association advocate increased public waterfront access in the Bronx. Together, these groups raise awareness about environmental injustice, including the relationship between… read more
Ghost Bike Memorials

1996 Time’s Up! pioneers the Street Memorial Project, commemorating cyclists and pedestrians killed by motorists. The Street Memorial Project creates silent but powerful memorials to draw attention to pedestrian and cyclist fatalities around the city through actions such as Stencil Memorials, Memorial Bike Rides, and candlelight vigils. In collaboration with Right of Way, Time’s Up!… read more
Community Gardens

TIME’S UP! volunteers love community gardens. We’re involved growing new gardens, defending gardens, touring gardens by bike, and organizing other events that focus on gardens. Many of the gardens we have worked with in past seasons have been saved, thanks to everyone lending a hand! In 2003 TIME’S UP! worked with GreenThumb to help community… read more
Auto-Free Streets and Parks

TIME’S UP! has organized over fifty direct-action traffic-calming rides through our parks, efforts that have heightened awareness of the unnecessary and undesirable presence of cars in our parks and contributed to recent increase in car-free hours in Central Park. But we need to keep up the pressure on City authorities to permanently ban cars from… read more