Our
walks will take you to interesting, exciting, educational open spaces
throughout the fiveboroughs of the City while promoting physical activity
for your health. The walkswill be planned in stages so that you can
do shorter or longer segments. The pace of the walks will be geared
to the level of the walkers in the group. All of the walks will start
and end at public transportation access points. All walks are free.
Remember to wear
sturdy shoes and bring water to all walks.
Check the schedule to determine if you should bring lunch. Dress
in layers for winter. Snacks are definitely recommended. Heavy rain
or temperatures above 85 or below 25 degrees may cancel walks. Call
AM of the walk if in doubt; there will be a message by 7:30 AM only
if we are canceling.
At the end of your
first walk, you will receive a Take a Walk, New York! Passport; thereafter
for every walk that you complete, your Passport will be stamped with
an icon representing that walk. We are trying to arrange some fun incentives
to keep you walking; however the best incentive is your improved health.
We want to strongly encourage you to join us
on walks both inside and outside of your neighborhood and borough.
Think of your Take A Walk, New York! Passport
as a passport to NYC’s other boroughs. You will be surprised at how
much fun it can be to
“discover”
parts of the City that you have never visited or did not know existed.
The Schedule:
Saturday, September 13, 2008. The Parks of Northern Manhattan, 10
AM. This walk will take us through some of northern Manhattans
surprisingly terrific parks: Highbridge Park and Swindler Cove on the
Harlem River and maybe Fort Washington Park on the Hudson. Meet at 168th
Street and Broadway; take the A train or the #1 to 168th St. Meet
Lenore on street level, southwest corner of 168th Street and Broadway.
Bring snacks and water
Saturday October 18th. Yonkers plus, finally. 10 AM. This is
the long awaited Yonkers walk now scheduled for peak of fall color.
We will visit the post-industrial waterfront, historic downtown, find
a spot where a buried river surfaces for some air, and climb to a hillside
Victorian neighborhood. This will be a long walk, bring plenty of snack
food because we do not stop for lunch. Shirley M., a TAWNY walker and
Yonkers resident has researched this walk for us. Thanks Shirley for
welcoming us to your town.
We meet in the Bronx at the 242nd Street/Van Cortlandt park subway
last stop of the # 1 line. 10 am. From there we will catch a local bus
to Yonkers (Your metrocard will give you a free transfer) We will either
catch the #1 (City Line) or # 2 (Tudor Woods) Westchester Bee-Line buses
to Getty Square (downtown Yonkers).
Add'l info: The bus stop to Getty Square/downtown Yonkers at
the subway station is on the park-side of Broadway. The ride is approximately
20-30 minutes from Van Cortlandt Park. Because this is the Westchester
Bus System, and the walk takes place on a weekend, the buses are not
that frequent. Please check the Westchester Bee-Line schedule for frequency
of service. A 20-minute wait between buses is not unusual. (http://www.westchestergov.com/beelinebus/timetables.htm)
Contact us at 212 228-3126. www.walkny.org / Neighborhood Open Space
Coalition (NOSC), Neighborhood Open Space Coalition.
More TO COME: We are working on additional walks. Stay Tuned. If
you do not have access to the Internet, call us periodically for upcoming walk info.
A
suggestion: we try very hard to give timely travel directions, but frequently
the TA makes changes and forgets to call US! So, we suggest you go to:
http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/subsrvno.htm.
This website is updated every Friday to cover weekend, etc. changes.
You can also call 718-330-1234, a somewhat less reliable option.
We wish to
thank the following organizations for their sponsorship:
New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene
Greater Southern Brooklyn Health Coalition
New York State Physical Activities Coalition
HIP Health Plan of New York
Montefiore Medical Center
National Park Service
New York City Parks & Recreation
The American Heart Association
And the many TAWNY members.
To become a sponsor contact:
Toby Brandt
212-228-3126