Upcoming Events

Wear something red for Jaye

On 3rd August Jaye Bloomfield was killed whilst cycling near the Mancunian Way. Coverage in the Manchester Evening News

Jaye and her partner Gemma were planning to join in with critical mass, but hadn't got around to it. They attended the Oxford Road Flashmob where many of us would have met them.

Gemma has suggested that since Jaye's favourite colour was red people could wear something red on this month's ride (facebook event page).

for updates on/from this ride follow https://twitter.com/redbricksonline

Jaye's ghost bike page is here

The Annual Memorial Ride and Walk brings New Yorkers together to remember pedestrians and cyclists killed in our city over the past year.  This will mark the eighth year that this event has occurred.  Riders will visit the site of each ghost bike, a white-painted memorial for cyclists, installed since 2012.  Please help us show solidarity with the family and friends of those lost by joining us for this important event.  Bring flowers and other items to honor those lost.

Detailed Ride Schedule:

Staten Island Ride

12:00 PM - Every Thing Goes Book Cafe, 208 Bay Street (between Victory and Hannah)

12:30 PM - Sutter Oval (Howard Ave end), Wagner College, across from Main Hall

12:45 PM - RJ Tillman, Howard Ave between Highland & Grand

2:00 PM - S.I. Ferry, St. George Terminal, Staten Island

2:30 PM - S.I. Ferry, South Ferry Terminal, Manhattan

3:30 PM - Jean Malizia, E. 23rd and Madison

4:00 PM - E. 59th St. & 1st Ave., Queensboro Bridge (converge with Bronx Ride)

Brooklyn Ride

12:00 PM - Seth Low Square, intersection of Stillwell Ave., Bay Parkway & Avenue P (N to Bay Parkway)

12:35 PM - Henry Garcia, 20th Ave. and 80th St.

1:00 PM - Victor Lopez, Utrecht Ave. and 58th St.

1:45 PM - Emma Blumstein, Bedford Ave. and Empire Blvd.

2:25 PM - Unnamed memorial, Franklin Ave. and Flushing Ave.

3:00 PM - Terence Connor, Metropolitan Ave. & Stewart Ave. (converge with South Queens Ride)

Bronx Ride

12:15 PM - Webster Ave. & Gun Hill Rd. (D to 205th St., 2 to Gun Hill Rd., 4 to Woodlawn or MetroNorth to Gun Hill Rd.)

12:30 PM - David Ellis, Webster Ave. & Gun Hill Rd.

1:00 PM - David Oliveras, Williamsbridge Ave. & Mace

1:50 PM - Joseph Nelson, Fordham Rd. & Jerome Ave.

3:00 PM - Shaquille "Swizzy" Cochran, Park Ave. & 108th St.

3:30 PM - Daniel "Danny" Martinez, 5th Ave. & 82nd St.

4:00 PM - E. 59th St. & 1st Ave., Queensboro Bridge (converge with Staten Island Ride)

4:30 PM - Unknown memorial, Queens Blvd & Jackson Ave.

North Queens Ride

1:00 PM - Queens Criminal Court Bldg, Queens Blvd & Hoover Ave. (E/F to Union Turnpike)

1:15 PM - Alexander Martinez, Queens Blvd south of Hoover Ave.

2:00 PM - Tchaka Cooke, Union Tpke & 178th St.

3:00 PM - Mireya Gomez, 126th St. & Roosevelt Ave.

4:00 PM - Roger Hernandez Greenpoint Ave. & 39th St. (converge with South Queens Ride)

South Queens Ride

1:00 PM - Rockaway Blvd, Woodhaven Blvd & Liberty Ave. (A to Rockaway Boulevard)

1:30 PM - Ramon Russel, 114th St. and 150th Ave. (Aqueduct Racetrack)

2:15 PM - Unnamed memorial, Cypress Hills St. at Salem Field Cemetery

3:00 PM - Terence Connor, Metropolitan & Stewart (converge with Brooklyn Ride)

3:40 PM - Unnnamed memorial, Borden and Greenpoint Aves

4:00 PM - Roger Hernandez, Greenpoint Ave. & 39th St. (converge with North Queens Ride)

4:30 PM - Unknown memorial, Queens Blvd & Jackson Ave.

Convergence
4:30 PM - Unknown memorial, Queens Blvd & Jackson Ave.

The event is free and open to all.
Rain date: Sunday, April 28

Day-of updates: www.twitter.com/nycstreetmem #memride2013

Detailed ride schedule: www.ghostbikes.org/node/949
Facebook event: www.facebook.com/events/466631936742347/
Contact: www.ghostbikes.org/contact
More information: www.ghostbikes.org/new-york-city
Like us: www.facebook.com/NYCGhostBikes

*** To fund a critical redesign of GhostBikes.org and to sustain the New York City Street Memorial Project's efforts to install Ghost Bikes in New York City, we are currently seeking to raise $5,000.  We appreciate the continued support and work of our community in New York City and around the world and ask for your help in furthering our work and building our global network.  Please use this link to make as generous a donation as you can. ***  

You're Invited: BBQ with the NYC Street Memorial Project

Please join the NYC Street Memorial Project for a summer barbecue to help us plan the future of building and maintaining Ghost Bikes in New York City.  We're honoring seven years of the project and you, the volunteers, activist organizations, friends and families of those lost on our streets, and members of the bicycling community who help make the NYC Street Memorial Project a reality.  In thanks, let us treat you to beers and BBQ; you can help out by taking a brief survey on the future of the project.  

note: plenty of vegan, vegetarian & non alcholic options will be available!

Please RSVP, so we know how much food to prepare: https://www.facebook.com/events/247412575372433/?context=create 

Event Details:

Saturday, August 4th, 2012

(Rain Date: August 11)

4pm to 8pm

Backyard of the Greenpoint Reformed Church

136 Milton Street (between Manhattan Avenue and Franklin Street), Brooklyn, NY 11222

G train to Greenpoint Avenue

Why You?  Why a BBQ?

Supporters like you have been critical to the NYC Street Memorial Project these past seven years.  Because of your support we value your presence and input.  In an effort to outline a sustainable plan for our future, we invite you to a BBQ.  Join us to eat, drink, meet other community members, enjoy the summer
day and honor the long history of our project.  While you're there, take a brief survey to help us determine how to best plan the future of our project.  For those who cannot make it, we'll e-mail the survey, so you can share your thoughts.    

We really hope you'll join us.
Please RSVP, so we know how much food to prepare: https://www.facebook.com/events/247412575372433/?context=create

The NYC Street Memorial Project will hold the 7th Annual Memorial Ride and Walk on Sunday, March 18, 2012. Together we will ride to the locations where cyclists have lost their lives in the past year. Bring flowers and other items to honor those we have lost.

We invite other locations to ride with us by scheduling their own memorial rides and events on that day. Please contact us to let us know about your ride or to help out on ours.

The Ride/Walk schedule is subject to change - for updates on the day of the ride follow us at www.twitter.com/nycstreetmem or #memride2012.

To share photos and other media, tag as #memride2012 on Twitter.  Flickr users, tag as nycghostbikes or upload documents to the NYC Ghost Bikes photo pool here.  

If you plan to take the subway to meet up with the ride, we suggest you check the MTA Planned Service Changes for 3/18.

Please RSVP to our Facebook event.

Staten Island Ride

12:00 Meet-up: Everything Goes Book Cafe, 208 Bay St (between Victory and Hannah)
12:30 Sutter Oval (Howard Ave end), Wagner College, across from Main Hall

12:45 RJ Tillman, Howard Ave between Highland and Grand
2:00 SI Ferry, St. George Terminal, Staten Island

2:30 SI Ferry, South Ferry Terminal, Manhattan

3:10 Jeffrey Axelrod, Chrystie & Delancey [Convergence with Bronx-Manhattan ride]

Bronx-Manhattan Ride

11:30 Meet-up: La Finca Del Sur Community Garden, E138th & Grand Concourse (4 or 5 to E138th St, Bronx)

11:50 Unnamed memorial, E141st St. & Bruckner Expwy
12:30 Unnamed memorial, W125th St. & 5th Ave
1:00 Qi Yu Weng, E96th St. & 2nd Ave
1:40 Meet-up: Central Park South & 7th Ave.
2:00 Marilyn Dershowitz, W29th & 9th Ave
2:45 Ray Deter, Canal & West Broadway
3:10 Jeffrey Axelrod, Christie & Delancey
3:45 Nicolas Djandji, Borinquen Pl & Rodney St. [Convergence with Brooklyn  Ride]

Queens-Brooklyn Ride

11:30 Meet-up: Cross Bay Pkwy & Beach Channel Dr. (A to Beach 90 or Beach 98)
11:45 Andrzei Wiesniuk, Cross Bay Pkwy & Beach Channel Dr.
1:45 James Pierre, E53rd St & Linden Boulevard

2:45 Chris Doyle, Metropolitan Ave. & Gardner Ave. [Convergence with Brooklyn ride]

Brooklyn Ride

12:30 Meet-up: Avenue T & West 9th St. - map (D to 25th Ave. or N to Avenue U)
1:00 Joseph Granati, Avenue T & West 9th St.
1:20 Aileen Chen, 62nd St. & 21st Ave.
1:40 Luis Torres, Fort Hamilton Pkwy & 59th St.
2:45 Chris Doyle, Metropolitan Ave. & Gardner Ave. [Convergence with Queens ride]

3:00 Mathieu LeFevre, Morgan Ave. & Meserole Ave.
3:20 Erica Abbott, Bushwick Ave. & Powers St.
3:45 Nicolas Djandji, Borinquen Pl. & Rodney St. [Convergence with Manhattan ride]

4:00 Unnamed memorial, Union Ave. & S5th St. [Convergence with Memorial Walk]

Memorial Walk

1:45-2pm: Gather @ Manhattan Ave & Green St (G Train to Greenpoint Ave)

2:05 Unnamed Memorial, Green St & McGuinness Blvd
2:15 Liz Byrne, Kent St & McGuinness Blvd
2:25 Unnamed Memorial, Greenpoint Ave & McGuinness Blvd
2:35 Neil Chamberlain & Unnamed Memorial, Calyer & McGuinness Blvd
2;45 Unnamed Memorial, Norman & McGuinness Blvd
2:55 Unnamed Memorial & Solange Raulston Nassau & McGuinness Blvd
3:40 Leopoldo Hernandez, Borinquen Pl & S2nd
4:00 Unnamed Memorial, Union Ave & S5th [Convergence with Memorial Ride]

Rain date: Sunday, March 25

From the Ventura Museum Website:

Ghost Bikes, a recently completed documentary by Danny Gamboa,
concentrates on Southern California's part in a worldwide phenomenon of
white bikes appearing as unofficial memorials where bicyclists have lost
their lives in traffic accidents. In Ventura County this year, ghost
bikes have been installed in remembrance of fallen riders Nick Haverland
and Jose Luis Carmona

The Ghost Bikes film will be shown at both 6:30
and 7:15 pm on Friday, November 18, at the Museum of Ventura County, and
the filmmaker will be there to answer questions. Admission is $5 for
the general public, free for museum members. It includes entry to all
exhibits, including Departures, which features the ghost bike made to
honor Nick Haverland, the 20-year old Ventura College student struck and
killed on Telegraph Road this past May. For reservations to either
screening, call 805-653-0323 x 7.

A ghost bike is first stripped to its basics and painted white. Often
local artists contribute elements, and then the bike is anonymously
left locked to a street sign near the crash site. The first ghost bikes
appeared in St. Louis in 2003, and volunteers tracking the sites
estimate that since then, more than 150 have appeared worldwide. Gamboa,
a Long Beach based filmmaker, sees ghost bikes as art that can raise
awareness about safety and encourage communication about sharing the
road. Gamboa is a cyclist who has installed ghost bikes for fallen
strangers.

The Museum of Ventura County is located at 100 East Main Street in
downtown Ventura. Hours are 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.
Admission is $4 adults, $3 seniors, $1 children 6-17, members and
children under 6 are free. For more museum information go to www.venturamuseum.org or call 805-653-0323.

Image from the ZKO Films website

This ride will mourn the loss of Audrey (Kimberly Yeong Sil) Hull, age 25 who was killed while riding her bike.

Meet us at van cleve park
near the u. wear some sort of white in her honor (shorts, pants, shirt,
armband, etc). we'll ride from van cleve park up and down 15th avenue
(past the site of the tragedy on the corner of 4th) 25 times (once for
each year of her life). we'll circle around the round-about by eddy
hall. total trip loop is 1.5 miles so this memorial ride will be
approximately 12.5mi.

spread the word.

The NYC Street Memorial Project will hold the 6th Annual Memorial Ride and Walk on Sunday, March 13, 2011.  Together we will ride to the locations where cyclists have lost their lives after January 1, 2010.  Bring flowers and other items to honor those we have lost. 

The Ride/Walk schedule below is subject to change - for updates on the day of the ride follow us at www.twitter.com/nycstreetmem or #memride2011.

Bronx - Manhattan Ride
1:15 E. Fordham Rd & Webster Ave (4 to Fordham Rd, B, D to Grand Concourse, MetroNorth to Fordham Road)
1:30 Alprentice (A.J.) Gray memorial, Webster & 188th
2:00 Meg Felice Charlop memorial, Crotona & E. Tremont
3:00 Meetup - Pelham Fritz Rec Center, Marcus Garvey Park, 5th & 122nd St
3:15 Marcus Ewing memorial, E.120th & 3rd Ave.
3:50 Bob Bowen memorial, 2nd Ave & 59th
4:30 Fuen Bai memorial, Delancey & Ludlow

Staten Island Ride
1:30 Everything Goes Book Cafe, 208 Bay St btwn Victory & Hannah
2:30 Dayshan Geralds memorial, Jersey St & Hendricks Ave
3:00 Ferry to Manhattan
4:30 Convergence with Bronx - Manhattan Ride @ memorial for Fuen Bai

Brooklyn Pedestrian Memorial Walk
1:00 Steps of St Anthony's Church, Manhattan Ave & Milton St (G to Greenpoint Ave)
1:30 Neil Chamberlain memorial, McGuinness & Calyar
2:05 Bike riders converge with North Brooklyn Ride @ memorial for 'TJ' Campbell

North Brooklyn Ride
1:00 Irving Square, Wilson Ave & Halsey (L to Halsey or Wilson, J to Halsey)
1:20 Diego Rodriguez memorial, Gates and Bushwick
2:05 Timothy (TJ) Campbell memorial, Varick & Meserole
3:15 Convergence with Brooklyn Ride @ memorial for Jake McDonough

South Brooklyn Ride
1:40 Linton Park (1 block north of 2/3/4/5 train to Van Siclen)
2:05 Unnamed memorial, Linden Blvd & Schenck Ave
2:15 Jerome E. Johnson memorial, Linden Blvd & Van Siclen
3:15 Jake McDonough memorial, Flatbush & Beverly
3:45 Meetup - Grand Army Plaza
4:05 Jasmine Herron memorial, Washington & Atlantic
4:40 Dominik Perez memorial, Atlantic & BQE

All Rides Convergence
5:00 Brooklyn Borough Hall
5:15 Memorial for unnamed pedestrians and cyclists

After Ride Gathering
Rabbit Hole Studios Gallery @ 30 Washington Street (basement), DUMBO, Brooklyn

We invite other locations to ride with us by scheduling their own memorial rides and events on that day.  Please contact us to let us know about your ride or to help out on ours.

Rain/snow date is Sunday March 20, 2011.Please note that Daylight Savings Time starts on March 13.

RSVP to our Facebook event.

Image by Curtis A.

Queremos convocarles a razón de:

La BICICLETA BLANCA puesta en el acto realizado con la presencia de
mas de 100 ciclistas el día Martes 6 de Octubre del 2009 en conjunto con
la COLICION DE CICLISTAS URBANOS en las calles Amazonas y Pereira,en
honor al ciclista Hugo Vinicio Ortiz atropellado y muerto el día Sábado
26 de Septiembre del 2009 por causa de la imprudencia del conductor de
bus Sr. Fausto René Vizuete Farinango de la Com …pañía Paquisha (bus de
disco 2403, placas PUC-418) fue removida del lugar por alguna autoridad
municipal, persona o institución desconocida en el presente año. Acción
dada pese a los tramites realizados por nuestra organización Andando en
Bici Carajo, ante las autoridades de la Administración Municipal Norte
(Permiso concedido), la presencia y apoyo de familiares de los
ciclistas, la serie de apoyos públicos que se tuvieron por parte de
medios de prensa, instituciones relacionadas y la sociedad civil de
forma general.

Las bicicletas blancas son parte de una campaña mundial que se lleva
acabo para visibilizar la muerte de ciclistas urbanos que en su
ejercicio y derecho de movilidad han sido agredidos y violentados por
conductores inconcientes, mas que una estatua se han convertido en un
acto de construcción de memoria.

Creemos que es necesario que esta bicicleta se mantenga, se consolidé
y acompañe la bicicleta colocada el mismo día en las calles Shyris y
Portugal. En memoria del ciclista Pablo Lazzarini atropellado y muerto
el día Lunes 28 de Septiembre del 2009 por imprudencia de un conductor
desconocido pero también por la falta de programación de los semáforos
en esta intersección.

Lugar: Amazonas y Pereira Esq.
Hora: 5:30 pm
Fecha: Viernes 10 de diciembre

Sadly, the NYC Street Memorial Project has 12 more ghost bikes to make and install for 2010 fatalities. So we are calling a:

Ghost Bike Making Workday - all are welcome

November 13th 11am - 5pm
(raindate/installation date November 20th)

Greenpoint Reform Church

Please contact us if you have a bike to donate or would like to install a finished ghost bike or have any questions.

Please wear or bring work clothes, wrenches, chain breakers and other bike tools as well as food and drink to share.

Please note that this event is not for press or filmakers. If you want an interview or film opportunity, please contact us for an appointment at another time.

from The Chain Link

Simple 13 mile ride passing all 10 Chicago area Ghost Bikes, taking a
moment at each to give attention, tell stories, and leave a few white
plastic flowers.

We'll start at the South end in Washington Park (near Chicago Ave
RedLine stop), and end in about 2 hours at the North end near
Montrose/Ashland.

Not to be confused with the great Ride of Silence which visits some on a spring evening, this is a casual fall daytime ride, intended simply to tour them all.

This is an updated version of the same ride this time last year which was quite pleasant.

See bedno.com/ghosts for photos of all and current Google map of planned route (and cross your fingers that there's no last minute additions!)