Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Events

Friday, September 8, 7 pm  Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, (Prospect Park, North) and Bklyn End of Williamsburg Bridge Critical Mass Brooklyn 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 […]

Thursday, September 7, 2006, 7:00 PM     Inwood Nature Center    218th Street and Indian Road    New York , NY 10034    212-304-2365 The Power of Community Screening and Permaculture Talk with Andrew Phillips     When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, oil shipments to Cuba, a Soviet satellite nation, declined to trickle. The impact on Cuba’s […]

September 5-8, 2006Madison, WisconsinNational Center for Bicycling and WalkingBienniel Conferencehttp://www.bikewalk.org/conference/register.html On September 5, 2006, hundreds of bicycle and pedestrian professionals, advocates, public health practitioners, transportation professionals, and many others will gather in Madison, Wisconsin, for the 14th biennial international symposium on bicycling and walking, better known as Pro Walk/Pro Bike. 

Labor Day weekend, September 1 – 4.Hazon’s Sixth annual New York Jewish Environmental Bike Ride. Registration $175. Join us for the 6th New York Jewish Environmental Bike Ride to raise money for cutting-edge Jewish environmental education, in the US and in Israel. The ride includes an amazing two-day Shabbat Retreat at the beautiful Isabella Freedman […]

WHERE: Columbia University, Alfred Lerner Hall (115th Street and Broadway) SCHEDULE: 8 – 9 a.m.: Registration 9 – 9:05 a.m.: Welcome 9:05 – 9:25 a.m.: Remarks by Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer 9:30 – 10:30 a.m.: Keynote Speaker: Enrique Penalosa, former mayor of Bogota, Colombia 10:30 – 10:45 a.m.: Break 10:45 a.m. – 12 […]