Knitta Bike Gone to Seed
Sunday, August 15th, 2010
Outside the Essex Street Market.
Summer Streets 2010
Saturday, August 7th, 2010
The first of three consecutive Saturday events in NYC. The only place the road was crowded was where the route overlooked the dumpster pools at Grand Central. It was fun. More details here.
The ramp up the Grand Central viaduct overlooking the dumpster pools.
Decorative iron fence at Grand Central.
Summer Streets 2010
Friday, August 6th, 2010
Summer Streets – August 23, NYC from GammaBlog on Vimeo
This is a video I shot in August 2008, strapping the camera to my chest and riding the route along Lafayette and Park. Tomorrow is the first Summer Streets event of 2010.
Summer Streets takes place on consecutive Saturdays in the summer (the 2010 dates are August 7, 14 and 21) from 7:00 am – 1:00 pm. The 2010 route connects the Brooklyn Bridge with Central Park with recommended connections along low-traffic streets to the Hudson River Greenway, Harlem and Governors Island allowing participants to plan a route as long or short as they wish. Route Map
Paul Revere Ride
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
The bulldozers are coming! The Bulldozers are Coming! The rules that have preserved community gardens for the past ten years are about to expire. Time to contact the politicians again.
More photos and video to come.
Dealing with police restrictions and dancing in La Plaza Cultural.
From Times Up:
1. Call and write the Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, 311 or
212-639-9675, fax 212-312-0700,
http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mayor.html and your City Council
member and tell him/her to ” preserve our community gardens – make
them permanent.” For complete City Council Member contact information
visit: http://council.nyc.gov/html/members/members.shtml
2. Attend the August 10th, 2010 Public Hearing of the Department of
Parks & Recreation and Department of Housing Preservation and
Development’s Proposed Rules governing Green Thumb Community Gardens
at the Chelsea Recreation Center at 11 a.m. on August 10, 2010 at
Chelsea Recreation Center
at 430 West 25th Street in Manhattan at 11:00 a.m., and speak in favor
of protection for community gardens. If you would like to testify,
please notify Associate Counsel, Ms. Laura LaVelle via telephone at
212-360-1335 or email at laura.lavelle@parks.nyc.gov by August 9.
Here’s the New York Times article discussing these proposed rules.
3. Come on the Paul Revere Bike Ride – The Developers Are Coming!
July 29th, 7 p.m. (Thursday)- Meet at Tompkins Square Park.
4. First “Save Our Gardens BBQ/Potlock” – Recurring Saturday BBQs at
Generation X… July 31, 4 p.m., (Saturday), 4th Street between Ave B and Ave C. Please bring food, friends, family, garden stories -
prepare for fun!
5. Come to the Harvest Day Rally at City Hall – Green Means Permanent
Community Gardens….August 2nd – 10 or 11 am (Monday) (exact time and location TBA)
6. Hand out the Save Our Gardens flier: download
7. Spread the word. Ask your friends, family and everyone who enjoys
our gardens take each of the above steps.
We will continue to update this message as more information becomes
available. Be sure to visit TIME’S UP’s calendar for a current list
of save our garden events to attend – SPREAD THE WORD.
Times Up Calendar
Umbrella Biking
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
A convertible top for your bicycle, an idea whose time has come. The Chinese ladies in the neighborhood do a lot of things that make sense and I wish I had the nerve to do, carrying parasols and doing Tai Chi in the schoolyard, for example.
Time’s Up Street Art Bike Ride
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
We met at the East River Time’s Up in Williamsburg. The ride was co-led by Jake Dobkins and Becki Fuller, both longtime street art photographers and bloggers.
Becki commanding the megaphone in front of a Williamsburg wall. Though the Time’s Up listing called it a graffiti ride the emphasis was definitely on street art, I learned a lot about artists otherwise unknown to me.
Strangely other listings on the web stated that the ride would cover Queens and Harlem as well, which would have been a sweaty marathon. As it was we covered a large chunk of Williamsburg and then headed to Bushwick, enough riding for me as my trip started across the bridge on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
The lines of this amazing rabbit are from a fine tipped spray can, wielded by the French Artist ROA. Factory Fresh had a wonderful show of his work this past May. The bike tour ended up Bushwick and they let us park our bikes behind the gallery to see the show.
A small piece but one of the favorite things I saw, artist unknown to me.
The Christian Paine piece looks in a style he was using five years ago, though most of them deteriorated quickly in the weather. I always like the name, even more blatant than Lost’s Christian Shepard, and the fact that he was putting out one-ups, original paintings on paper.
Grandfather by Gaia. Gaia is a young talented painter and printer, the placement of this piece is ballsy.
Suffolk Street Bike Lane
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
Earlier in the day. last Friday, I saw them doing a hasty patching job on this stretch of Suffolk between Rivington and Delancey. It was sorely needed it, as you can see from the unpatched area to the right of the green paint. This street leads to the Entrance to the Williamsburg Bridge for bikes and people and is much traveled by bicycles.
Brandie Bailey Ghost Bike Returns
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
The cops clipped locks and carted off all the bikes along Houston Street for Obama’s motorcade up and down Houston Street when he spoke at Cooper Union the other day. Someone retrieved the bike, but the memorial plaque is gone.
