Events

Memorial Ride for Mark Grichevsky

Mark Grichevsky was 18 years old. He was a student at City As School, and was also an intern at Recycle-A-Bicycle. He was struck by a car on May 29th in the afternoon, near his home in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. He passed away 4 days later in the hospital. This ride will link up with the Recycle-A-Bicycle Ride Club for youth.

By Aaron Donovan

12:47 AM EDT on June 15, 2007

BRING FLOWERS and LOVE

If you are interested in volunteering to help with the ghost bike memorials,
pedestrian memorials or memorial bike rides please send an email to streetmemorials @ gmail . com.

For more information about ghost bike memorials:

Visual Resistance
Time’s Up!

Aaron Donovan

Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

Events

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