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Bronx / Uptown
With monthly meetings, social bike rides and local activism, the Bronx/Uptown Activist Committee brings people together to change streets on the local level.
No experience is necessary to join in, just a commitment to improving public transit, bicycling and walking in the borough you love.
*Please email bronx@transalt.org if you would like to join our Slack channel.
Our Team
Lucia Deng
Volunteer Chair, TA Bronx/Uptown Activist Committee
Shawn Garcia
TA Bronx/Uptown Organizer
Committees
Want to help reshape the streets in your own neighborhood? Transportation Alternatives works across all five boroughs and is a resource for rallying your community and focusing on the best fixes for dangerous local streets.
Highlight Tools
Open Streets for Schools
Open Streets are run, maintained, and programmed by nearby Pre-K, K-12, or higher education schools. They reimagine a roadway not dominated by cars but built for children to play, learn, and thrive.
Spatial Equity
Spatial Equity NYC, TA and MIT’s online data tool, reveals these inequities and ranks dramatic differences between neighborhoods.
Bike Lane Tracker
The City of New York is required to build hundreds of miles of new protected bike lanes — with annual benchmarks — by 2025.
Our Work
NY 25X25
Our challenge to New York City’s leaders is this: How will you give the streets back to people?
Spatial Equity
Spatial equity is a way to understand how public space is distributed and restricted, and used.
Open Streets Forever
Open Streets are popular, effective, and lifesaving, but our research also found significant inequities.
Families for Safe Streets
TA and Families for Safe Streets’ policy platforms for NY Governor Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
TA has provided bike valet for
Bicycle Film Festival
The Bicycle Film Festival is an independent film festival that screens films related to urban cycling culture, in cities around the world.
BRIC: Celebrate Brooklyn
Celebrate Brooklyn! is one of New York City’s longest-running, free, outdoor performing arts festivals
Brooklyn Bridge Park
Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy: Movies with a View
KVRC Riverfest
RiverFest was founded in 2010 by the Friends of the Hudson River Greenway and has been produced by the KRVC since 2015
Bike Match
New Yorkers who have a bike to donate, or who need a bike to get around the city, we'll pair you with a neighbor to exchange.
Bike Valet
We provide bike valet service for your guests to visit museums, parks and restaurants and ensures that bikes stay safe and are parked appropriately.
Bike Lane Tracker
Transportation Alternatives is tracking the progress of the Adams administration on installing protected bike lanes in the city by the end of 2022, and 250 by the end of 2026.
Bike Rentals and Tours
Bike and Roll Bicycle Rentals
TA members get a whopping 75% off for hourly rentals and guided bike tours in the five boroughs. Rent on site or call the location of your choice ahead to reserve a bike. Don't forget to bring your current member card with you to the rental kiosk!
Central Park Discovery
Explore Central Park with one of the many memorable experiences Central Park Discovery has to offer! TA members get 15% off all tours. Email membership@transalt.org to redeem your discount.
Central Park Pedicab Tours
Tours of the Magnificent Central Park in Style and Comfort
TA members get 10% off their tour cost. Email membership@transalt.org to get the discount code.
Central Park Tours
TA members get 35% OFF bike rental services in the city. Bike more, bike safe and have fun with Central Park Tours!
Citi Bike
TA members get $30 off their first year of Citi Bike membership. Email membership@transalt.org to get the discount code.
Cyclemundo
Self-Guided tours around France
TA members get a 75-Euro discount on all trips of 5 days or more.
Escapades Bike Tours
Premier bike vacations across the United States
TA members save $100 on all tours and Escapades will donate $100 to TA for each tour booked! Be sure to mention Transportation Alternatives when booking your tour.
Gotham Bicycle Tours
Two and three day bicycle tours to beautiful destinations in the New York City Area accessible by transit.
TA members get 10% of tour cost refunded back to them after registration by showing/emailing a valid TA membership card.
Activist
$20 / year
Member discounts at bike-friendly businesses across NYC.
Invites to member-only events.
Individual
$50 / year
Member discounts at bike-friendly businesses across NYC.
Invites to member-only events.
Discounts to TA bike tours, annual member party, and Vision Zero Cities conference
Dual
$75 / year
For two members of the same household
Member discounts at bike-friendly businesses across NYC.
Invites to member-only events.
Discounts to TA bike tours, annual member party, and Vision Zero Cities conference
I need a bike to ride.
I need a bike to ride.
Miles of bike lanes added since 1977
1000+
70
Public plazas added to NYC since 1992
Miles of bike lanes added since 1977
30,000
Our Impact
Miles of bike lanes added
since 1977
1000+
Public plazas added to NYC
since 1992
70
Miles of bike lanes added
since 1977
30,000
Your one-time membership contribution is an investment in a safer, more equitable, and more sustainable people-first future for New York City. .
NYC Bike Resources
Are you new to cycling? New to cycling in New York? We’ve put together some resources to help you with what you need to know about getting around by bike, parking your bike and more.
Activist Trainings
Your Voice is a series of activist trainings developed by Transportation Alternatives’ renowned team of community organizers. Hear the lessons learned in their years of hyper-local, grassroots political activism.
Come to Our Monthly Meeting
You can make real, tangible changes to how streets and sidewalks function in the Bronx and Uptown.
The Bronx/Uptown Activist Committee chooses local campaigns and fights for changes on-the-ground in their neighborhoods, like bike lanes and new pedestrian plazas.
Come to the next meeting to get involved in making these campaigns a success.
The Point, 940 Garrison Ave, 10474
Every third Wednesday of every month at 7 p.m.
Meetings are in person but individuals have the option to join virtually.
Please RSVP for details.
Our history
Founded in 1993, the Bronx/Uptown Activist Committee helped develop the Bronx Greenway Plan and organized the first Safe Routes to School program in North America, now a federal program. The City's first Neighborhood Slow Zone came to the Bronx under their watch too. With monthly meetings, social bike rides and local activism, the Bronx/Uptown Activist Committee brings people together to change streets on the local level. No experience is necessary to join in, just a commitment to improving public transit, bicycling and walking in the borough you love.
Bike Parking
Redeem coupon at Bicycle Habitat locations in Chelsea, Soho and Brooklyn
TA members save up to $40 off any Kryptonite New York series lock. Email membership@transalt.org to request your exclusive members-only coupon.
10% off select bike racks and 5% off select bike shelters and accessories. Email membership@transalt.org to get the exclusive discount code!
