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Brooklyn Bridge Bike Path Celebration

September 18, 2021

Bridges 4 People hosted a bike ride and pedestrian parade to celebrate the opening of its new bi-directional bike path. Cyclists kicked off the celebration by biking both ways across the Brooklyn Bridge.

After the ride, cyclists met up with our pedestrian participants for a rally with speeches from TA Exceutive Director Danny Harris and Bridges 4 People activists. Everyone marched together on foot (some walking bicycles!) in a unified parade on the bridge's promenade to fun music from Off the Bar Brass!

Finally, we toasted at a restaurant in South Street Seaport to celebrate pedestrians and cyclists now having their own dedicated spaces.

Our parade group holding signs at the entrance to to Brooklyn Bridge on the Manhattan
Photo by Rachel Thompson
Off the Bar Brass led our parade with funky, fun brass music
Photo by Rose Uscianowski

Cyclists gathering before the ride across the Brooklyn Bridge
Photo by Liz Denys

Kid holds up a colorful sign that says I'm walkin here with a drawing of a pedestrian crossing a bridge
Photo by Rachel Thompson
Our parade group heading across the Brooklyn Bridge
Photo by Rose Uscianowski




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