Help NYC neighborhoods hardest hit by Sandy.
One New York community bike shop, Recycle-A-Bicycle is working hard despite losing inventory in a flooded warehouse and shivering in unheated shops.
The relief efforts they are working on include providing bikes, baskets, and trailers to local organizations supplying the affected areas with food, water, and supplies. They are also looking to raise enough funds to increase their staff to meet the needs to provide mobile bike repair in the affected areas and build more bikes to support the effort. A mere $2,500 will help build their staff capacity.
Outreach would be geared toward low-income residents of Red Hook, Brooklyn, the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Rockaways, Staten Island, Coney Island and other neighborhoods hit hardest by the hurricane.
Please consider making a gift to Recycle-A-Bicycle today to help their relief efforts. Any additional funds raised will go to support expanding this effort in the wake of the storm, as communities begin to rebuild.
Thank you to Bicycle Transportation Alliance in Portland, Bike Easy in New Orleans, League of American Bicyclists, Alliance for Biking and Walking and all of our friends for spreading the word.
1. Speak to partner groups on the ground to see what is needed.
2. Prepare donation bikes.
3. Deliver donation bikes to orgs and set up mobile bike repair stations where needed.
4. Try to partner with orgs and assist in other ways as everyone continues the long clean up effort.
Hurricane Sandy has devastated numerous waterfront neighborhoods in New York City who are now without power, transportation and communications. Some neighborhoods lack cell phone service and receive information mainly by bike messengers delivering information to residents around the neighborhood. There is currently a gas shortage and many of the affected locations are hard to reach as mass transit has not fully recovered. Recycle-A-Bicycle trying to do what they can to help the neighborhoods hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy.
