Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Time’s Up!

The History of a Movement, Part I: Hazmat Suits and Street Memorials

By Charles Komanoff | Dec 6, 2021 | No Comments

Today, as we confront the bloodiest year in Mayor de Blasio's Vision Zero, Streetsblog begins a seven-part series focusing on a key strand in the movement for livable safe streets, written by a central figure in that movement, Charles Komanoff.

Three bikes awaiting their owners next to Borough Hall, after police cleared out Cadman Plaza. Photo: Ben Feibleman

‘It’s Not Your Bike Anymore’: Police Swipe Bikes at Black Lives Matter March

By Julianne Cuba and Dave Colon | Jun 4, 2020 | No Comments

Cops aggressively swiped protestors’ and reporters’ bikes during a peaceful protest Wednesday night in Brooklyn — which is illegal.

“No Criminality Suspected” Stencils Spotlight Lack of Traffic Justice

By Stephen Miller | Mar 15, 2013 | 7 Comments

Last night, a group of activists traveled to the sites of eight traffic fatalities and stenciled paint memorials for those who lost their lives walking or biking in crashes for which NYPD declared “no criminality suspected” within hours of the crash. This morning, Time’s Up! led a memorial bike ride to the eight crash sites. […]

Charges Dropped Against Mass Cyclist Assaulted by Cop

By Brad Aaron | Sep 8, 2008 | 7 Comments

On Friday, charges were officially dismissed against Christopher Long, the Critical Mass cyclist who was slammed to the ground by NYPD Officer Patrick Pogan in July. After he was knocked off his bike, Long was charged with attempted assault, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. The official account of the incident, which was witnessed by dozens […]

StreetFilm: The Street Memorial Project

By Jason Varone | Jan 7, 2008 | 2 Comments

Nick Whitaker’s latest effort for StreetFilms is about the Street Memorial Project, a joint effort from Visual Resistance, Transportation Alternatives, and Time’s Up! which was established to honor pedestrians killed on NYC streets. The project is an outgrowth of the Ghost Bike movement. A plaque is usually placed at the site indicating the date of […]

NYPD Has Spent $1.32M to Suppress a Monthly Bike Ride

By Charles Komanoff | Nov 16, 2006 | 18 Comments

Charles Komanoff, flanked by Marquez Claxton and Norman Siegel, at City Hall this morning. Time’s Up took its campaign for safe bicycling into the economic arena this morning with release of a report documenting the Bloomberg administration’s squandering of New Yorkers’ tax dollars in suppressing the Critical Mass bike rides. With the City Hall steps […]