Events

Help post flyers promoting congestion pricing. The more people who sign up the more ground we can cover. For those who arrive after 5, call Wiley at 646-422-9614 for the latest location.

Transportation Alternatives is planning a massive organizing effort to win congestion pricing, but they need boots on the ground to make it happen. Join T.A. at their first volunteer night for congestion pricing activists. They will lay out their street outreach, phone banking and organizing for the fall. Bring your calendars as they develop their five-borough strategy. Dinner provided!

Remarks by Peter Marcotullio, Distinguished Lecturer at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is also Adjunct Senior Fellow, at the United Nations University, Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS). His research has focused on urban environmental transitions and globalization and urban change (with a focus on the Asia Pacific), ecosystem approaches to urban and regional environmental planning, and the impacts of urbanization on the environment.

Assemble For Rights NYC will join with LGBT groups to protest City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's Endorsement of the NYPD's Parade Permit Rules.

Interested in a more community-oriented way of living while still having privacy and owning your own home? Then you may be interested in Cohousing. National expert and co-author of "The Cohousing Handbook: Building a Place for Community", Chris ScottHanson is coming from Seattle to give a free talk and slideshow about Cohousing communities around the country.

New York City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and other city officials will be doing a press conference to discuss the pedestrian, cyclist and traffic flow improvements in progress at Grand Army Plaza (between the Arch and Prospect Park). The impetus for these improvements was generated, to a large degree, by GAPco.

Councilmember Jessica Lappin is hosting a free bicycle helmet giveaway today. New York City Department of Transportation officials will be there to fit each individual with a free bike helmet. Please attend this event and tell your friends and family!

A free open house for the exhibit Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York.

"Let's face it, the New York area is unique. It's one of a handful of communities in the United States that must carefully consider the importance of all modes in transportation planning and programming. Roads, bridges, transit, passenger and freight rail, passenger and freight air service and freight/goods movement are interrelated and equally critical to the success of our national transportation system. New York is a prime example of a place where all of the modes play an important role in maintaining and enhancing the region's economy, quality of life and environment. It's a microcosm of the national challenges and opportunities for transportation."- Excerpts of an interview with Cameron Moore, Executive Director, National Association of Regional Councils (NARC)