Take A Walk, New York!
Event Schedule

All Walks Are Free

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 Manhattan’s 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