Transportation Alternatives' 2010-2011 Annual Report

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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0

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

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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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