ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011
Your advocate for bicycling, walking and public transit
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Dear Members and Friends, At Transportation Alternatives, we don’t build bike lanes. In our office, there’s not a single brush or bucket of paint; our only hardhat is a prop and I’ve never sat behind an earthmover. What T.A. does — to win the installation of bike lanes and pedestrian plazas, to ensure New York’s transit riders can afford their fare — is amplify. T.A. is a bullhorn for New York City’s cyclists, pedestrians and public transit riders. From their street corner to the State Assembly, T.A. communicates how safer streets can manifest a better New York. Boosted by our network of 40,000 advocates, we have sway to speak for every affected citizen in New York City. By broadcasting each of their voices into the halls of power, T.A changes New York. When I look back at what T.A. has done this year, the diversity of our accomplishments astonishes me: New York’s first Complete Street — with parking-protected bike lanes and dedicated, camera-enforced bus lanes — installed and succeeding; 15,000 New Yorkers rallied in the name of better public transit; the nation’s largest public bike share program, coming soon. But our greatest accomplishment isn’t set in stone. In 2010, T.A. changed the way New York thinks. More than ever, New Yorkers understand the ideals T.A. has been promoting since our founding 38 years ago: that a pedestrian-dedicated space can calm traffic; that a bike lane is a safety device for pedestrians too; that a street can be a space for a child to play; that an efficient bus is more than just a faster way from A to B. These are the paving stones on the road to a city that’s better for everyone. As you will see in the following pages, in 2010, T.A. drew an enduring path into that future. Paul Steely White Executive Director Transportation Alternatives
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CONTENTS
forward march
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bicycling
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safety
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public transit
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PUBLIC space
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the t.a. family
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development
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Our mission is to reclaim New York City’s streets from the automobile, and to advocate for bicycling, walking and public transit as the best transportation alternatives.
Board of Directors
Advisory Council
Daniel Kaizer, President Principal, Longitude Books
Mike Epstein Software Engineer, Google Inc.
Jeff Prant, Vice President Photographer Laurie Falk Davidowitz, Secretary Laurence W. Levi, Treasurer CEO, VO2 Partners Curtis Archer President, Harlem Community Development Corporation George H. Beane A. R. Walker & Company, Inc. Colin Beavan No Impact Man Christine Berthet Co-owner, Sunnyside Records Kenneth Coughlin Editorial Director, ElderLawAnswers
Marc Agger
Matthew Modine
Thurstan Bannister
Linda Prine
Steve Hindy Co-owner, Brooklyn Brewery
George H. Beane
Henry Rinehart
Mary Beth Kelly, ACSW Clinical Social Worker Psychotherapist
David Byrne
Lisa Sladkus
Majora Carter
Steve Vaccaro
Ramon Cruz
Lloyd Westerman
Richard B. Miller Director, Energy Policy, Consolidated Edison Company
Joshua David
Adam Wolfensohn
Neysa Pranger Public Affairs Director, Regional Plan Association
Mark Gorton
Lela Rose Mark Seaman Howard Yaruss
Paul Gertner Alex Herzan Rich Kassel Mary Beth Kelly Robert Kotch Janet Liff Stephen Lyle Adam Mansky Peter Meitzler
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Forward March Every resuscitated street in New York City is plucked from a textbook
written and illustrated by Transportation Alternatives. Once, the only notations in New York’s bluebook were stagnant crash rates and eternal congestion. Now, safety is a prerequisite. With T.A. at the chalkboard, New York has made safer streets a mandate that will outlast mayoral terms and withstand media trends. As the lesson of New York City streets is rewritten, T.A.’s brand of education is embedded in every road. In 2010, the simple concept T.A. taught New York was this: to reduce chaos, give every road user room to breathe. New York was listening. The nation’s first bi-directional parking-protected bike lanes; bus lanes enforced with cameras and expedited with off-board fares; road space re-imagined into space for play, space to dine, space for respite; on Manhattan’s First and Second avenues, New York’s first Complete Streets built to prioritize biking, walking and public transit. The nation’s largest public bike share program is officially on its way. Whether decreed by City Hall or sworn into New York State law, these ideas are the manifestation of livable streets tenets that T.A. whispered in New York’s ear. Take the smallest illustration of livable streets philosophy: the parking swap. When a handful of curbside spaces were made for the day into miniature parks, it was T.A. demonstrating how the space could be better used. Now, parking swaps to install bicycle racks and house street-side cafes are budgeted items on New York’s agenda. On once chaotic street corners, bike lanes now encounter others; they embrace like old friends and link to transform two safe streets into a growing network. The everyday vocabulary of average New Yorkers now includes the bus lanes and pedestrian plazas that were once only the parlance of urban planners. From Park Slope to Parkchester, we look out on New York City’s newest streets and see a future that was predicted in T.A.’s mission. T.A.’s every step forward now appears on city streets in leaps and bounds. But from the top of the heap, which way is forward? The lanes have been built; it’s T.A.’s task to make them bustle. For our work to be a success, every pedestrian plaza must be packed. We have won a public bike share program for New York City; now we will prepare for the 27.5 million new bicycle trips public bike share will bring in its first year. We have reeducated New York City streets; now we will teach New York how to use them.
BICYCLING
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Built for Bicyclists, Safer for All When a street is made safe for bicyclists, it instantly becomes safer for every user of the road, whether a pedestrian, a driver or a passenger in a taxicab. In 2010, T.A. did more than add another 50 miles to New York’s bike network, more than double the miles of parking-protected bicycle lanes installed the prior year; we taught New York that what’s good for bicyclists is good for everyone. Through original research, T.A. proved beyond a doubt that bicycle infrastructure is a chaos-reducer: bicycle lanes calm speeding traffic by 75 percent, reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities by 40 percent; providing safe space for cyclists reduces incidents of cyclists taking to the sidewalk by 84 percent and more than doubles ridership. The parking-protected bike lane installed on Brooklyn’s Prospect Park West is one of many safe passages T.A. won in 2010, but also a case in point: the stated purpose of the lane was to reduce speeding on the corridor; getting wayward cyclists off the sidewalk and increasing cycling was a happy side effect. In the last year, this is the mantra T.A. has been broadcasting across New York: Bike lanes are beneficial for every single user of the road, whether they walk, drive or ride.
2× as many miles of parking-protected bike lanes installed
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Public Bike Share After decades of T.A. advocacy, a public bike share program is coming to New York City. With more than 10,000 public bikes planned for the first phase alone, the program will be the largest in the nation by an order of magnitude. By 2012, suburban commuters, tourists and every New Yorker will have instant, hassle-free access to a bicycle; the result will be seen on New York City streets in 27.5 million new bicycle trips every year. T.A. has prepared the streets, educated cyclists and recruited the City’s power-players for the inevitable bicycle boom. With new lanes in every borough, a public education campaign spread from street corner to community board and leadership cultivated in City Hall, T.A. has prepared New York for public bike share to make an easy landing.
Streets
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IN ONE YEAR
27.5 million new bicycle trips on New York City Streets
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60,000
More than
taught to bike polite
A Better Bicyclist While T.A. research shows that bicycle lanes make pedestrians safer, a single errant cyclist can make any walker believe otherwise. Key to the success of New York’s bicycle boom has been the effort to ensure cyclists are polite. That’s why T.A. worked in 2010 to make bicyclists the best-behaved road users. We have introduced scores of new cyclists to the importance of biking polite, with more than 60,000 copies of Biking Rules, T.A.’s guide to being a well-behaved bicyclist. In 2010, T.A. also launched the Biking Rules Business campaign, a two-fold plan to give a boost to businesses that are bike-friendly and to help businesses that employ delivery cyclists protect their employees by encouraging good biking behavior. With every new business signed on, bicyclist behavior gets better.
safety
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Zero deaths, zero injuries, zero fear of traffic
Vision Zero T.A.’s belief in the kinship of cities has imported street closures from Bogotá’s Ciclovía and cycle tracks from Copenhagen. Wherever streets are built safer, T.A. is importing ideas for New York. T.A.’s newest undertaking is a holistic, and audaciously hopeful, concept from Sweden: a citywide goal of zero deaths from traffic. In 2010, T.A.’s new campaign, Vision Zero NYC, proposed a new way to construe traffic conditions. To help us arrive at a future of zero deaths, zero injuries and zero fear of traffic, T.A. challenged New York’s speeding epidemic, and brought speakers from around the world to New York City’s first-ever Stop Speeding Summit. City agencies, elected officials and community leaders came to listen and learn from the global pool T.A. gathered. Within the month, T.A.’s campaign to reduce the speed limit was adopted as a City initiative, and the first 20-mph neighborhood pilot programs have already begun. With unsafe speeds remaining New York’s most deadly traffic offense, our efforts to staunch the speeding epidemic is T.A.’s first step toward Vision Zero NYC.
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To Prevent a Crash
31%
Traffic fatalities reduced
in ten years
Preventing traffic crashes is the sum of many parts: a police officer empowered to summons a dangerous driver; a community vindicated by data that proves their streets are not safe. Because T.A. is involved in every aspect of preventive traffic safety, traffic fatalities are down 31 percent in ten years. When T.A. found out that the driver who killed preschoolers Hayley Ng and Diego Martinez would not be charged with a crime, we wrote a bill to create real deterrents to careless driving. Hayley and Diego’s Law now defines punishments for traffic crashes that kill and injure pedestrians and cyclists. In 2010, T.A. developed the Neighborhood Traffic Monitoring Toolkit to empower communities to take control of their local streets. Modeled on T.A.’s renowned studies of street safety, the Toolkit is a downloadable guide for community residents to conduct scientific studies of traffic lawlessness. To obtain that data citywide, T.A. wrote the TrafficStat Bill, passed into law in January 2011, to mandate the monthly public release of data on crashes, fatalities, contributing factors and police summonsing activity. For every New York neighborhood, T.A. has unlocked an estimation of the danger of local streets and the effectiveness of local police enforcement, all the information any community needs to campaign for change where they live.
PUBLIC TRANSIT
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Protected More than
$100 million of threatened transit funds
Transit Riders Empowered In the history of New York’s public transit system, transit riders have never had a unified voice, because in a city where 8.5 million people take public transit every day, a single rallying cry is an unlikely find. With our Rider Rebellion campaign, T.A. provided that unlikely voice. By organizing public transit riders from around the city, T.A.’s Rider Rebellion campaign has rallied an entire movement to make buses and subways in New York City better: more efficient, more affordable, with funding to make public transit sustainable for the long run. Under that banner of more equitable service, for the first time ever, public transit riders have a unified voice in T.A. In 2010, T.A.’s Transit Rider Bill of Rights was signed by more than 15,000 public transit riders, endorsed by more than 15 New York City community boards and introduced as law in the New York State Legislature. When T.A. incited transit riders in defense of transit funding, we succeeded in protecting more than $100 million of dedicated funds. The amplified voice of T.A.’s Rider Rebellion campaign has reached elected officials as far away as Albany, been endorsed by powerbrokers as substantial as Al Sharpton and been integral to every transit rider understanding they have a voice as a decision-maker for their public transit system.
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Bus speeds
20% improved by
Innovative Public Transit When a bus moves slower than walking pace, it ceases to be an efficient tool to get from place to place. For years, T.A. educated policy-makers on the potential of a more efficient bus system, and imported the ideas of international pioneers in better busing for a local audience. In 2010, we made worldwide innovation in busing a New York reality, with the installation of Select Bus Service on Manhattan’s First and Second avenues. With dedicated terracotta lanes and off-board fare collection, bus speeds have improved 20 percent. To keep those dedicated lanes free and clear, T.A. passed a bill to install New York City’s first-ever bus lane automated enforcement cameras, providing a real time deterrent to slowing down New York City buses. Imitating London’s Underground, T.A. won the installation of real-time countdown clocks, making subways suddenly predictable. In 2010, T.A. guided our public transit system through the first steps toward keeping up with innovators from around the world. For the first time ever in New York, buses run as efficiently as subways, and subways are transit you can set your watch by.
PUBLIC SPACE
Every week in the summer
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streets became spaces for thousands to play
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Streets Are For Play Because establishing a permanent place for young people to play is a rarity in a city where space is at a premium, T.A. fights for Play Streets in underserved communities citywide. At these recurring street closures, T.A. hosts organized activities, intent on getting children involved in active play. When T.A. organizes a temporary street closure, the transformation from thoroughfare to playground allows the young people in attendance to understand how street space can function for everyone. When T.A. organized our first Play Streets in New York, there were few summer-long street closures. This year there were so many New Yorkers lined up to bring Play Streets to their block that, at T.A.’s urging, two city agencies have teamed up to facilitate the application process. In two reports published this year, T.A. found that 64 percent of children at a Play Street would otherwise have been doing something sedentary. Ninety-two percent said they would tell their friends and neighbors they want a Play Street too. When T.A. coordinates a Play Street, we demonstrate a vision of a better use for a city street. When a young person comes there to play, they are educated by experience: this is what a street can be.
THE T.A. FAMILY
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An attentive audience of
40,000
The T.A. Family Whether it is a cyclist who finds city streets too perilous, a pedestrian who feels too often encroached upon or a public transit rider who cannot stand another fare hike, the want for a better New York is a road that inevitably leads to T.A., and T.A. provides a venue for New Yorkers to take action. That is why our networks have grown more than 35 percent in the past year, and why our effectiveness will continue to multiply. From a petition signed on a street corner to a speech overheard on a subway commute to free breakfast on a morning bicycle ride over an outer-borough bridge, T.A. touches thousands of New Yorkers every week. From the more than 10,000 bikes we valet parked for free to the 2,500 commuters who wrote a letter to extend safety improvements on First and Second avenues, every conversation educates a potential new advocate and every positive interaction welcomes another into the fold. T.A. is a megaphone with an ever-widening reach: we provide infinite ways to hear, see and learn what T.A. does. To the 40,000 people in our network, we provide amplification for the safer streets and improved public transit that is their priority too.
advocates
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From the 100-miler to the
230,000 first-time rider, a community of
cyclists rode with T.A.
Tour the Best in Bicycling Despite every innovative new bicycle lane installed, New York City streets are not without potential to intimidate a first-time cyclist. T.A.’s bike tours are a solution. With bicycle lanes blooming across New York’s street grid, the urge to become a bicyclist swept New York City this year, but new cyclists need an access road to city riding. With a T.A. tour in every borough and a route length for every ability, T.A.’s five borough-spanning bike tours are an introductory course in city riding and the ultimate primer for every new cyclist. Our Tour de Brooklyn is an 18-mile family-friendly outing across the borough that’s home to more cyclists than Portland, Oregon. T.A.’s Tour de Bronx helps every rider imagine the potential of a car-free city by closing a major Bronx expressway to cars and giving 5,000 cyclists reign. Our New York City Century Bike Tour, with an audience of 5,500 cyclists, is the only way in the nation to ride 100 miles without ever leaving city streets. On National Bike to Work Day, T.A. inspires hundreds of thousands of cyclists to a two-wheeled commute. Riding with T.A. is a gateway for every new cyclist, and with the support of a full staff and hundreds of volunteers, provides the good time integral to making the first time the first of many.
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Featured in the media more than
800
times in a year, and in one day, broadcast to an audience of more than five million
As Seen In For T.A., media attention is a megaphone, and because we approach each day’s advocacy like a street rally, in the last year we appeared in the media more than twice every day. T.A. uses the press to transform the smallest stories of improved streets into citywide precedents. In 2010, T.A. appeared as an authority in the media more than 800 times. Locally, nationally and internationally, T.A. was featured in newsprint everywhere from the New York Times to USA Today to the Guardian, and on the glossy pages of the New Yorker, Wired and Scientific American. With our national audience, we have elevated safer streets to celebrity status by bringing real life celebrities into T.A.’s fold. We have made Martha Stewart into a biking benefactor as featured guests on her show, Martha Stewart Living, and now Martha’s online portal hosts a blog on bicycling written by T.A. staff. In 2010, the cast of the Today Show introduced T.A. to television viewers, as Al Roker pedaled to victory in T.A.’s annual Commuter Race, broadcast live on air to an audience of five million plus.
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Tapping New Technology As technology gets portable, T.A. advocacy follows suit. Our every call to action is now pocketsize and cellphone applicable, so whether we are calling on our network of 40,000 for signatures in support of a new safety measure or a letter in protest of bill that would restrict cycling, or communicating to the more than 3.2 million people who visited T.A. websites in 2010, our results are multiplied because our applications make advocacy easier. This year, T.A.’s Rider Rebellion campaign became the first to cater to the 3G capabilities every potential advocate is carrying in their pocket. The 15,000 subscribers to the Rider Rebellion network get real time text-based campaign updates to their phone, and calls to action arrive with the imperative of a ringtone. This year, T.A.’s calls to action became personally detailed to recipients’ political interests and physical location. We provide our subscribers with the exact information they need to take action immediately, and as a result, T.A. calls to action have produced a greater response than ever before.
Supporters sent
26,000 more than
electronic faxes to elected officials
DEVELOPMENT
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Every Individual Supporter With 25 full-time staff, a One million dollars,
1,200 from more than
individuals matching the pledge of a single foundation
phalanx of interns and office helpers, and a volunteer committee in every borough, T.A. has grown from a small group of activists to a New York City institution. That growth is financed by the donations of thousands of individual donors. In the fall of 2010, a local foundation with unwavering faith in our ability and a stake in our expansion, pledged an unprecedented gift of $500,000 to T.A., but only if we could raise an equal amount from our supporters. To match that foundation’s faith, we reached out to our wide network in a multi-pronged print and electronic campaign. More than 1,200 people answered T.A.’s call, contributing more than $600,000 in support. Our supporters endorse T.A. in dollars because they are invested in what our advocacy can accomplish. In 2010, those supporters demonstrated that T.A. has laid a road that will route our success for years ahead.
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Cultivating Relationships for the Next Challenge
Investing in Our Future The growth of a city is measured not only in the size of its population, but in the quality of its citizens. As T.A. membership has expanded, we hope to be led by the solid character and unwavering loyalty to our ideals that would be any growing city’s wish. To arrive there, in 2010, T.A. cultivated leaders in our population. With exclusive events, we ensured that those who give the most to T.A. understand themselves as our most appreciated leaders. Those supporters were honored in 2010 as members of an elite group, and T.A. honed relationships to ensure our leaders felt appreciated. T.A.’s sixth annual Summer Benefit awarded the innovators behind Times Square’s pedestrian paradise with the David Gurin Award for Improving Biking and Walking in New York City. The inaugural Hudson Highlands Gran Fondo brought T.A.’s leaders onto the race circuit with professional cyclists in the hills of the Hudson River Valley. Longtime New Yorker editor Hendrik Hertzberg (a card-carrying T.A. member since 1973) regaled guests at T.A.’s Winter Reception with stories from 40 years of commuting by bike. These are leaders of New York, and in 2010, T.A. ensured they would be our leaders for the long-term too.
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STATEMENT OF ACTIvities December 31, 2010, 2009, 2008 & 2007
Total Revenue
Revenues and Other support
Contributions $2,500,000
$2,000,000
$2,320,081
$2,101,563
$1,955,478
$1,911,202
$500,000
2008
2007
Membership
$229,891
$268,730
$265,566
$211,439
Grants
$201,350
$290,453
$164,937
$274,500
Program service fees
$283,626
$230,030
$179,314
$215,255
$99,624
$164,308
$126,632
$156,201
$3,509
$3,898
$15,545
$14,025
Interest income
$1,000,000
2009
$1,133,949 $818,699 $1,032,645 $977,231
Sponsorship
$1,500,000
2010
Other
$54,408 $37,827 $48,339 $62,551
Funds released from restriction
$313,724 $287,618 $122,500
Total revenue and other support EXPENSES
Program services Management
–
$2,320,081 $2,101,563 $1,955,478 $1,911,202 2010
2009
2008
2007
$1,649,003
$1,599,722
$1,656,600
$1,237,938
$270,758
$138,907
$268,424
$202,626
Fundraising $184,746 $132,631 $81,365 $49,763 Total expenses Change in net assets
$2,104,507 $1,871,260 $2,006,389 $1,490,327 $215,574
$230,303
($50,911)
$420,875
Net assets at beginning of year $1,188,295 $957,992 $1,008,903 $710,528 Net assets at end of year
$0 2007
2008
2009
2010
$1,403,869
$1,188,925
$957,992
$1,131,403
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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION December 31, 2010, 2009, 2008 & 2007
ASSETS
Cash and cash equivalents Accounts receivable Pledges receivable
2010 TOTAL EXPENSES
78
PROGRAM SERVICES
M M
ANAGE
ENT
13%
FUNDRAISING
9%
2010
2007
$1,074,047
2009
$503,641
$495,082
$191,811
$111,707
$37
$15,219
–
$8,602
$606,093
$580,000
Prepaid expenses
$10,624
$10,394
$5,348
$2,546
Deposits
$16,583
$16,583
$15,583
$15,583
Fixed assets, net of depreciation and amortization
$18,749 $12,679 $20,289 $30,795
Total assets
%
2008
$1,226,243
$1,464,010
$1,234,012
$1,150,991
$1,139,225
$55,086
$40,662
$2,767
$2,767
$5,055
$5,055
$5,055
$5,055
LIABILITIES
Accounts payable Security deposit Loan payable Total liabilities
–
–
$58,000
–
$60,141
$45,717
$65,822
$7,822
$300,000
$300,000
$200,000
$200,000
$1,058,869
$888,295
$757,992
$931,403
NET ASSETS
Unrestricted net assets –board designated Unrestricted net assets Temporarily restricted net assets Total net assets Total liabilities and net assets
45,000
– $70,000 $122,500
1,403,869
1,188,295
$1,027,992
$1,131,403
$1,464,010
$1,234,012
$1,150,991
$1,139,225
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Transportation Alternatives gratefully acknowledges major gifts from the following contributors in 2010. individual supporters Anonymous Thomas L. Kempner, Jr.
Kathleen Berger
Emily Bingham
Anonymous (2)
Daniel Gillmor
Curtis Cravens
Peter Frishauf & KC Rice
John Allgood
Ian Granick
Christopher Davis &
Steve Hindy & Ellen Foote
Julien Basch
Susan Hagamen &
Noel Labat-Comess
Christine Berthet
Mike Epstein
Brian O’Kelley
Clara Bingham
Paul Gertner &
Leif Parsons
Joan Bingham
Nancy Havens-Hasty
Donald Passantino
Mary Bingham
Michael Heimbinder &
Elizabeth Gilmore
Michael & Elena Patterson
Julie Blackburn
Alexandra & Paul Herzan
Lela Rose & Brandon Jones
Jonathan Brandt
John & Sara Henry
Daniel Kaizer & Adam Moss
Larry Silverton
Jean Cappello
Lee Herman
Mary Beth Kelly
Lloyd Westerman
Thomas & Oonagh Christie
Julie Hirschfeld &
Bevis & Clara Longstreth
Suzanne Wunsch
Ken Coughlin
Priscilla & Ward Woods
Howard Yaruss
Stuart & Shirley Crow
Pierre & Barbara Hohenberg
Joshua David &
Carine Joannou
Sharon Saul Davis Marc Agger & Francesca Connolly George H. Beane & Patricia Begley Mark & Jody Gorton Jerry Gottesman Adam R. Rose Adam White
Rochelle Serwator
Stephen Hirsh
Kenneth Pinkes John Dozier-Hasty &
Daisy Deomampo
Bennett Killmer
Mark Johnston
James & Laurie Davidowitz
Diane Keefe & John Levin
Wade Davis
Richard Khan
Douglas Durst
Alan & Kathryn Klingenstein
Steven Eisenstadt
Lance Leener & Jamie
Marcia Ely
Nicholson-Leener
Joel & Victoria Ernst
Jesse Levitt
Chenda Fruchter &
Joshua Lewis
Michael Fives
Janet Liff
Veronica Garwood
Stephen K. Lyle
Carla Geisser & Sam Linson
Kenneth Martin &
Theodore Gewertz
Christine Hepburn
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Adam Mansky & Chloe Wasserman
Linda Prine Kamakshi Rao
Timothy Mayhew
Julie Raskin
Joshua & Beth Mermelstein
Michael & Sarah Repucci
Richard B. Miller &
Henry Rinehart &
Aviva Goldstein
Dinneen Viggiano
Adam Wolfensohn
Robert Carey
Kenneth Hochman
& Jennifer Small
Henry Cordes
James Hone & Lilian Chow
Jeffrey Cox
Mark Horowitz
Ondine Crispin
Mayhsin Hsiung &
Elizabeth Yockey & Jared Brothers Jason Zemlicka & Jamie Hubbard
Jonathan Day & Nina DeMartini-Day
David Packer Hilge Hurford &
Andrew Milstein
Jack Russell
Staley Dietrich
Michele Moffat &
Peter Samponaro
Danielle Dimston
Shea Dean & Marc Isserles
Melissa Elstein &
Robert Kotch
Todd Cassan
Eric Schwartz & Debra Fram
Anonymous
Daniel Sherr
Jackie Albano
Nomi Silverman
Benjamin & Susan Baxt
Joel & Arline Epstein
Noah & Annette Osnos
Lisa & Mark Sladkus
Colin Beavan &
Rob Ewaschuk & Juliet Davis
Paul Pariser
Barton Slavin
Mark Pecker &
Frank Todisco Laurel Touby & Jon Fine Dr. Harold Varmus
Scott Blau
Dan & Meg von Behren
James Boorstein &
Aaron Naparstek & Joanne Nerenberg
Elizabeth McGee Thomas Pennell & Stephanie Gould Steven Phillips & Tila Duhaime
Michael Ward
Andrew Lerner
Nancy Beckett
Thomas Farber
Roger Lin
Graeme Birchall
Hampton Finer &
Alexander Lloyd
Yvonne Regn
Henry Lodge
David Freeman
William Logan
William & Anne Gehris
Charles Loxton
Jean L Bourgeois
Amelia Gewirtz
Carol Lutz
Nathan Brauer &
William Gilmore
Constance Marks
Hilda Cohen
& Molly Blair
Steven Weinstein &
Neysa Pranger &
Richard Young
Alexander Eysymontt
Anne Landsman
Mathew Pokoik & Aynsley
Benjamin Posel
Donald Lemke &
Melissa Chaney
Jonathan Weiner
Christophe Porsella
Elizabeth Kuhlenkamp
James Wagman &
Karen Plafker Vandenbroucke
Michelle Conlin
Eric Katzman
Jennifer Hurford
Liz Weinstein Sam Weisenberg & Sari Bernstein
Dan Matthews
Elizabeth Brody
Richard Greenspan
Matthew Meyer
Brenda & Howard Brody
Rachel Gross
Risa Mickenberg &
Karen Burkhardt
Michael Haddad &
Felix Andrew
Joey O’Loughlin
Evie Morrow &
Donald Wilkinson III
Ken Campbell
Mari-Jo Winkler
Louis Capozzi
Frederick Harris
Steven Solinsky
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individual supporters continued Jens Mortensen Adam Offenhartz
Roger Schwed &
The J.M. Kaplan Fund
Laura Dukess
Lily Parshall
Rebecca Shalomoff
Serge Permyakoff
Brigid Sheehan
Jessica Perrone
Isabelle Silverman
Caleb Pollack &
Barton Slavin
Hannah Fremmer
foundation support
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation Fund for the Environment
business support IFF Foundation
Bicycle Habitat
Open Society Institute
Brooklyn Brewery
Quadra Foundation
Edison Properties LLC
The Woods Foundation van Ameringen Foundation
& Urban Life
David Smiley
Emblem Health Services City Parks Foundation
Jamis Bikes Trek Bicycle Corporation
Stuart Post
Michael Smith
Anonymous
The Common Sense Fund
Clifford Press
Joanna & Ian Smith
The Lily Auchincloss
Fine Family Foundation
Steven Rabinowitz
John Squires &
Sarah Randolph & Seth Pybas Esther Regelson & Jack Cadwallader
Kate Simonds Mark Stewart & Karen Curlee Mary & Michael Tannen
Abe Romano
Andreas Turanski
Joseph Rosalie &
Cecilia Valdez
Donna Saliani
Paul Walker & Jennifer Wheary
Travis Ruse
David Warren
Aaron Saddler
Meryl Schwartz &
Dylan Schaffer
David Weinraub
Steven Schechter
William Williams
Darrel Schoeling
Michael & Katrina Yoder
& Jeff Corbin Sam Schwartz
The Fund for Public Health in New York
Damon Strub & Sarah Haga
Sarah Robinson
Carol Ross
Foundation craigslist Charitable Fund
Laurence Zuckerman
JEMP-D Foundation
Adeline Adeline
Grace Jones
Advantage Testing
Richardson Trust The Luminescence Foundation
Brooklyn Community
American Traffic Solutions
bfold Bike Shop Boar’s Head Cause & Effect Productions
The Lutz Fund
Clif Bar
Foundation
Jane Marcher Foundation
Con Edison
Carl Forstmann
Mertz Gilmore Foundation
Country Choice
Marty & Dorothy
Fairway Market Red Hook
Memorial Foundation The Scherman Foundation The Wolfensohn Family Foundation
Silverman Foundation
Five Borough Bicycle Club
Tannen Family Foundation
Flushing Meadows Corona Park Conservancy
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government support Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman, Mackauf, Bloom & Rabinowitz Habana Outpost
The Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee The New York City Department of Health
Henry’s Restaurant LaGuardia Community College Moleskine New York Cycle Club New York Precast NYCE Wheels NYU Sustainable Initiatives The Port Authority of NY & NJ Silverstein Properties Times Square District Management Association
team t.a. Vilasinee Bunnag Kevin Donahue Eliana Glicklich Jeremy Grysman
matching gift support Google Matching Gifts Program Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co.
Steven Jacobs Councilmember Daniel Garodnick Councilmember Sara Gonzalez Councilmember Rosie Mendez Councilmember Letitia James Councilmember Christine Quinn
Ben Kintisch
Adobe Matching Gifts
Andrew Kuziemko
Bank of America Foundation
Jennifer Mathews
The Capital Group
Charles Olson
Companies Charitable
Kelsey Payne
Foundation
Elizabeth Peters Giselle Sperber Lisa Zwick
Carnegie Corporation of New York Earth Share Ford Foundation Matching Gifts Open Society Institute UBS Warburg
Urban Rustic
United Way of New York City
Working Proof
Wellspring Advisors
Yo La Tengo
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