Staten Island & South Brooklyn

With monthly meetings, social bike rides and local activism, the Staten Island 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.

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Our Team

Rose Uscianowski
TA Staten Island Organizer

Justin Wood
Volunteer Chair, TA Staten Island Activist Committee

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You can make real, tangible changes to how streets and sidewalks function in Staten Island.

The Staten Island 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.

Every third Thursday of every month at 7 p.m.

Our meetings are primarily online, but some meetings are in person. RSVP for more information.

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Support Our Active Campaigns

These are the campaigns the Staten Island Activist Committee chose for this year.

All Campaigns

Finish Fourth Avenue

We demand immediate action to improve the Bay Ridge section of Fourth Avenue with regards to safety, environment, and mobility.

Time for a Staten Island-Brooklyn Ferry!

Time for a Staten Island-Brooklyn Ferry! We need a fast, affordable ferry service between Staten Island and Brooklyn to cut travel times, increase access to good jobs, combat climate change, and support connections between our communities.

Zero on Hylan

The Department of Transportation knew about the dangers posed by street conditions on Hylan Boulevard for decades and had the tools to fix this deadly street. Instead, they allowed three children to die. Enough is enough.

Let's Build the North Shore Greenway!

Imagine a pedestrian and cyclist greenway stretching around the periphery of Staten Island’s North Shore, all the way from the Verrazzano Bridge to the Goethals Bridge. Tired of imagining?Let's Build the North Shore Greenway! (For some additional reading: Ringing in the Greenway)

Walk/Bike the Verrazzano

Built in 1964, the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge was constructed without pedestrian or bicycle access, despite the public’s desire for it. We are calling for the opening of pedestrian and bicycle pathways on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge through either the installation of a new pathway or the conversion of an existing lane of vehicular traffic.

Our History

Founded in 2009, the Staten Island Activist Committee has made big strides towards a safer, more pedestrian and bicycle friendly borough, and rallied a crew of concerned Staten Islanders ready to fight for critical changes needed on Staten Island streets. Following the hit-and-run death of bicyclist and Wagner College student Ronald “RJ” Tillman, the Staten Island Activist Committee partnered with the Grymes Hill and Wagner College communities to successfully fight for a lower speed limit, a new stoplight and a crosswalk painted near the campus to calm traffic. Transportation Alternatives' Staten Island activists also successfully advocated for the removal of a fence installed by a private enterprise that cut off pedestrian and bicycle access to the South Beach Greenway and a local playground.

TA Staten Island Activists also won approval for a NYC Department of Transportation redesign of Clove Road from Staten Island Community Board 1 in November 2013, and the improvements were installed in August 2015. The new Clove Road design included Staten Island's first new bike lane in nine years. More recently, our activists successfully partnered with the Van Duzer Street Civic Association to win approval for a critical redesign of the Van Duzer St Corridor during the winter of 2016 and counted support from more than three dozen different coalition partners when we successfully lobbied for the addition of more protected spaces for cyclists and pedestrians at the entrance to the St George Ferry Terminal during the Spring of 2017.