Summer Events from Time’s Up

Get your ride on with summer with great free bike events from Time’s Up

Calendar for June, July & August:

Central Park Moonlight Ride

Friday, June 7, July 5 & August 2, 10pm

Meets the 1st Friday of every month at the Columbus Circle entrance to Central Park.

Enjoy the tranquility of the park and its beautiful ponds and waterways. A nature lover’s dream.

First Friday Ride

Friday, June 7, July 5 & Aug. 2, 7pm

Meets the 1st Friday of every month at Union Square N.

A fun, leisurely ride, creating safe and sane streets. Route to be determined by participants.

Prospect Park Moonlight Ride

Saturday, June 8, July 13 & August 10, 9pm

Meets the 2nd Saturday of every month at the Grand Army Plaza Entrance to Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

Discover Prospect Park at night with a peaceful ride that visits many of the park’s little-known treasures.

Brooklyn Critical Mass Ride

Friday, June 14, July 12 & August 9, 7pm

Meets the 2nd Friday of every month at the Grand Army Plaza entrance to Prospect Park.

A monthly celebration of bicycles. Bring lights & bells.

Peace Ride

Sunday, June 16, July 21 & August 18, 2pm

Meets the 3rd Sunday of every month at the Gandhi Statue in SW Corner of Union Square Park.

A leisurely peaceful ride to some of downtown Manhattan’s peace sites. www.peacemuseumnewyork.org.

Manhattan Critical Mass Ride

The bike ride that changed NYC.

Friday, June 28, July 26 & August 30, 7pm

Meets the last Friday of every month at Union Square N.

CM is held in over 200 cities around the world to

celebrate nonpolluting transportation and exercise our right to the road. Bring lights and bells.

Riverside Ride

Saturday, June 29, July 27 & August 31, 10pm

Meets the last Saturday of every month at the Columbus Circle Entrance to Central Park.

A magical, evening ride enjoying the tranquility of Central Park & the grand vistas of the Hudson River from Riverside Park.

Adapting to Change Ride

Tuesday June 4, 6:30PM

2 hour Bike tour, starts at Tompkins Park’s Gaia Tree

Sandy’s storm waters surged into Manhattan, heralding a new 21st century reality. Join Green Map System and explore both the aftermath and solutions generated in the LES, East Village and East River Park that respond to the realities of climate change. Get a copy of the new Lower East Ride Green Map! Ride postponed if raining.

Bare as you Dare: Hot Pants Ride

Saturday, June 8. Follow us on Twitter @WNBRNYC for meet-up time & updates.

In solidarity with the World Naked Bike Ride, join us for a day of saying NO to indecent exposure—indecent exposure to toxic chemicals that is.

Parade on Wheels to PEACE PARADE

Sunday, June 9, 12pm

Meets at Washington Square Park, under the Arch.

Join us for a festive ride to PEACE PARADE 2013 and Figment on Governors Island. Peace attire, decorations and sound makers encouraged! RSVP at www.facebook.com/events/547879411917656

Info: www.peacemuseumnewyork.org

Mystery, History, Murder & Money Tour

Saturday, June 15, 10pm

Manhattan entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge (SW corner of Chambers and Centre Street/Park Row).

A fascinating bike tour of dazzling and notorious sites

in Lower Manhattan. Includes New York’s legendary Five Points, world’s biggest gold cache, and arguably the most important place in USA history . . . and much, much more. Bad weather cancels.

Clearwater Festival

Saturday & Sunday, June 15 & 16

Once again, Time’s Up! will be valet parking bikes at the amazing environmental weekend—The Clearwater Music Festival. We will be camping, dining & dancing with activists from across the country, facilitating sustainable transportation and hearing great music. If you’d like to join us, email TimesUpVolunteer@gmail.com.

Coney Island Cyclone Ride

Friday, June 21, July 19 & August 23

Three meet-up spots:

7pm at the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge (SW corner of Chambers and Centre St/Park Row) OR

7:40 in Brooklyn at the Carroll St. Drawbridge (Carroll St. between Nevins and Bond) OR

8:00 at the 69th Street Pier in Brooklyn at the Shore Parkway bicycle path entrance (take 68th Street past Owl’s Head Park and bear right).

The Cyclone Ride goes to Coney Island Amusement Park (Brooklyn) from Manhattan. We should get there just in time for fireworks! This is a casual ride at a relaxed pace. Bring locks as we plan to lock up and ride the rides. Bring money for food and amusements, and a swimsuit if you plan to hit the waves. We usually spend about 1.5 hours in the park. Some people return on the subway, and others ride back in informal groups. Rain cancels.

Co-op to Co-op Ride

Sunday, June 23, 2pm, 58 East 4th St.

Co-hosted by 4th St Food Co-Op.

Donna Summer Summer Dance Ride

Tuesday, June 18, 8pm

Tompkins Square Park Gaia Tree, center circle.

Put on your sparkly disco dress, bell bottoms and platforms for some summer disco dancing in the streets!

Drag Ride

Friday, June 28, Dusk

Tompkins Square Park Gaia Tree, center circle.

Bring your bikes to the drag march. Nothing says resistance like drag queens and stiletto heels. Remember, Stonewall was a riot. There will be dancing, drag & unpermitted fun.

Just Eating Ride

Sunday, June 30, 11am

Brooklyn Time’s Up! Space, 99 S 6th St.

Join us for a culinary odyssey through Queens with various stops at restaurants & grocers to “study” edible invasive species.

Know Your Rights Ride

Thursday, July 4, meet-up time TBD

ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington Street.

We’ll make stops at POPS (privately owned public spaces) shouting the First Amendment, blasting The Clash and other radical songs of justice and end at a party to view the fireworks!

Ride, Camp & Rally

Saturday-Sunday, July 13-14, 4pm

99 S 6th St, Brooklyn.

Ride out to camp at Floyd Bennet Field on Saturday and share stories, food & dance around the camp fire. Wake up on Sunday to ride through the Rockaways to petition against the fracked gas Rockaway Lateral Pipeline with Occupy Sandy.

Visit times-up.org for details.

Dub Step / Gogo Gaga Dance Ride

Thursday, July 18, 7pm

Tompkins Square Park Gaia Tree, center circle.

Eastside Greenway Ride

Saturday, July 20, 8:30pm

Tompkins Square Park Gaia Tree, center circle.

Come ride the beautiful waterfront greenway, stopping to admire the tranquil night-time views of the

Williamsburg, Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges.

Beach Ride

Date and Location TBD – Stay tuned with Twitter for details @nyctimesup.

Our usual beach, Ft Tilden, is closed for the season, but we’re not going to let that stop us. We’ll stuff our panniers with sun block and towels and seek out the newest, hippest beach in NYC.

Community Volunteer Days

Join Time’s Up! as we volunteer to help local community gardens and spaces with clean-ups, plantings, composting, construction, workshops, BBQs & more!

Green Oasis Community Garden

1st Sunday of every month (June 2, July 7, Aug 4), 12-3pm, 8th St. between Avenues C & D.

Nothing Yet—A Pop Up Art Space

Every Sunday, 2pm, 99 South 5th St, Brooklyn.

La Plaza Community Garden

2nd Saturday of every month (June 8, July 13, Aug 10), 12-3pm, East 9th St & Ave C.

Siempre Verde NEW Garden

Workdays 2nd & 3rd Sunday of every month,

1-5pm, 181 Stanton St. See www.svgarden.org for

workshop schedule, including Soil Testing, Music-Making, Green Map-Making, Living Plastic-Free & more.

Time’s Up! Movie Night

2nd Thurs. of every month, June 13 & July 11, 8:30 pm, Brooklyn Time’s Up! Space, 99 S 6th St.

$2 suggested donation, Brooklyn Beer and free popcorn! Showing awesome movies with bicycling and social-activism themes!

Time’s Up! Radio Hour

Every Tuesday night from 8-9pm,

www.radiohive.org/category/shows/times-up.

Bringing you the latest in bicycle news, rides and events. Keep up to date on Time’s Up! campaigns and fill your ears with hot music and hotter interviews. Tune in to find out how you can volunteer to make your city more safe, livable and sustainable!

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Time’s Up! is a 25-year-old, nonprofit, grassroots environmental organization, working to make New York City–and the world–a healthier and more sustainable place to live. All of our events and campaigns are free and open to the public–including educational and fun bike rides, bike repair workshops, movie nights and presentations, community garden workdays and outreach, bike and public space advocacy and more.

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