May is Bike Month in New York City. Please join Transportation Alternatives for the Third Annual New York City Greenway Summit.

Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Location: Hunter College West Building, Room W615
68th Street at Lexington Avenue
Time: 4-8pm
RSVP: caroline@transalt.org, (646) 873-6021

The Greenway Summit will bring together over one hundred invited community leaders, advocates, government employees, elected officials and planners and users to discuss a wide array of greenway issues. Break-out sessions will include:

• Greenways & Community Development: Lessons from the Bronx
• Queens Cranks it Up: Greenway Coalition Building
• Maintenance & Access: Harlem River Park
• Funding: A Brooklyn Greenway Perspective
• Re-imagining Urban Greenways: Best Practices from the US and Abroad

Transportation Alternatives has planned the 2008 NYC Greenway Summit in conjunction with the Bronx River Alliance, Brooklyn Greenway Initiative, Friends of Hudson RiverPark, Harlem River Park Task Force, Hunter College Center for Community Planning and Development, The Point CDC, Pratt Center for Community Development and the Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance.

The summit will be structured as a half-day conference, with breakout sessions followed by a keynote presentation from: Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation.

The Greenway Summit is free and open to the public.

For more details, please see the full invitation.

Please RSVP by either phone or email to reserve a spot: (646) 873-6021, caroline@transalt.org