TO CLARIFY- This will start at 10:30AM and run through 12:30PM

The Upper West Side Streets Renaissance Campaign is a community-led effort to advocate for and win great walking spaces, safer streets, less traffic, a world-class bike network, and cleaner air on the Upper West Side.

Live on the Upper West Side and Want Better Streets? In 2008, the Renaissance Campaign will work with Upper West Side residents to realize their vision for neighborhood streets and organize fun community events. One specific way in which the Campaign will help the community transform their streets is by organizing professional design charrettes (May 17th & May 31st), whereby your ideas are transferred into viable, Livable Streets blueprints--shining examples of what your streets can and should be.

A charrette is a community-led workshop, in which people who live in and know about a neighborhood talk to a group of professional designers about their visions for their area. The results can be something as simple as a call for more benches or as comprehensive as a master plan for a whole neighborhood. Over the summer, the Upper West Side Streets Renaissance will be hosting two of these events to give Upper West Siders an unprecedented opportunity to take a hand in the area's future. Come out and be heard.

May 17th - Bicycle Network Design
American Bible Society
1865 Broadway (at 61st)
10:30am-12:30pm

The time is now! With a growing coalition of community groups, elected officials, business leaders, and concerned citizens like you, the Upper West Side will achieve long overdue, common sense improvements to its local streets.