Upper Green Side

June Update on Greenmarkets and Bike Lanes

Here’s a quick update on our two key issues we are campaigning for:

1. Greenmarkets: Following the withdrawl of the PS 6 location, we quickly moved into action, asking the Community Board and both City Council Members in the area to find new locations. Now we have a pretty good deal in the works – expansion of the St. Stephen’s location from 2 vendors to 5 AND a new location near the Stanley Isaac’s Center on First and 92nd. Community Board 8 will be discussing this on June 8th at the Isaacs Center Beacon @ P.S. 198/77, 1700 Third Avenue, (95th/96th), Auditorium.

I do not expect that this will receive any opposition like the PS 6 location, but nevertheless we will be distributing our flyer all next week leading up to the meeting.

2. Bike Lanes: We have collected about 1000 signatures to lobby local elected officials and the Community Board to install buffered protected bike lanes on First and Second Avenues. Today we received a strong endorsement of this idea from the local East Side newspaper “Our Town” an Editorial titled “Break Cycle of Debate”:

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